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Why Choose a Race Car When Economy Will Do - Competency with Safety Instrumented Systems

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
There are qualitative and quantitative approaches to hazard assessment that justify the need for instrumentation with reliable performance and...

CFD Modeling of Liquid Jet Fire

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Although jet fires may pose a major hazard in the chemical processing industry, they are typically modeled with semi-empirical models that were...

Human Factors - What Role Should They Play in Risk Assessment and How Should They be Handled

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
A risk assessment is just the assessment of the risk inherent to a process or piece of equipment, correct? At this stage why should I consider any...

Guidelines for Integrating Process Safety into Engineering Projects

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
This paper describes a new book that CCPS has published on guidelines for integrating process safety into engineering projects. Engineering projects...

Frontline Supervisors Are the Safety Culture

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Frontline Supervisors Are the Safety Culture No other form of safety communication is more important than the casual, face-to-face communication...

A Semi-Quantitative Tool to Estimate the Risk of Dust Fire or Explosion from Process Equipment

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Dust explosions can pose a risk of injury to personnel, damage plant and equipment, and cause business disruptions. Preventing dust explosions...

Assessment of Battery Energy Storage Systems

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Current and future power grids are characterized by a high share of renewable energy sources. This leads to fluctuations in the power injection that...

Accounting for Emergent Failure Paths in LOPA

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
One of the fundamental assumptions made when using standard LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis) is that the barriers selected for a common threat...

Embracing Complexity and Managing Risk: PSM Challenges in Specialty Chemical Innovation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Success in the specialty chemical business is dependent upon bringing highly specialized products to market quickly, often to meet very specific...

Study of the Initiator Mischarging Effect on Runaway Reaction of Styrene Polymerization

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Polymerization reactions are prone to runaway risks due to the unstable nature of monomers and complex interactions between reactants. Deviation from...

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