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Corrosion At Pipe Supports: Causes and Solutions

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 30, 2013
Localized corrosion attack at pipe support areas is a major problem for integrity managers. Offshore, marine and coastal operators, without exception...

A Guide to the Legal Framework of the PSM Standard for Engineers

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 30, 2013
A Guide to the Legal Framework of the Process Safety Management Standard for Engineers By Christopher J. Cunio, Esq. and Georges A. Melhem, Ph.D. The...

The Impact of Human Factors On LOPA (and other risk assessment methods)

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 30, 2013
All initiating events (IEs) and independent protection layers (IPLs) are inherently tied to human error. Human factors limit the risk reduction...

Worker Behavior Changing by Dynamic Culture

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 30, 2013
INTRODUCTION The chemical industries need appropriated project of process to control safety and production avoiding accidents and environmental...

Troubleshooting a Furnace Emissions Problem

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 30, 2013
We had been fighting CO flue gas emissions on our CEMS analyzer for around a year, we had indications that it was a burner problem, fixed the burners...

Defining and Creating Best Practices

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 30, 2013
The continuous drive for excellence in our industry reaches all segments and disciplines of our organizations. The goal to improve the safety of our...

Balancing Mechanical and Instrumented Protections in Brownfield Projects

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 30, 2013
There are many oil and gas facilities around the world that were built at a time when current acceptable engineering requirements were different from...

Summary of Expert Forum On the Use of Performance-Based Regulatory Models in the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry, Offshore and Onshore

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 30, 2013
After a series of incidents such as the 2005 Texas City Explosion and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident, recommendations have been made...

Explosibility of Nano-Sized Metal Powders

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 30, 2013
Industrial accidents in the metal processing industries are not uncommon. Some of these accidents are in the form of dust explosions or flash fires...

Benchmarking Industry Practices for the Use of Alarms As Safeguards and Layers of Protection

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 30, 2013
Operator response to alarms is a common risk reduction mechanism considered during layer of protection analysis (LOPA). Industry practices on how to...

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