http://www.che.com Chemical Engineering en-us 2013 Sat, 25 May 2013 8:19:04 EDT Evonik Industries AG (Essen; www.evonik.com) and OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. (OPXBio; Boulder, Colo.; www.opxbio.com)... http://www.che.com/environmental_health_and_safety/environmental_mgmt/sustainability/10534.html Tue, 14 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT Small companies that do not have all the resources of their large counterparts can turn to consultants and creative ideas to help implement safe practices.... http://www.che.com/environmental_health_and_safety/plant_and_personnel_safety/10475.html Wed, 1 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT The Advantage 1.0 is said to be the world’s first ATEX and IEC-Ex Zone 1/21 mobile phone with 3G technology. The device is a very robust, dust- and water-proof industry... http://www.che.com/environmental_health_and_safety/plant_and_personnel_safety/10496.html Wed, 1 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT Regardless of whether one is producing acrylic acid, butanediol, tetrahydrofuran or other chemicals, residues will arise that need to be disposed of. This company delivers turnkey thermal utilization plants for these and other production facilities that... http://www.che.com/environmental_health_and_safety/environmental_mgmt/air_pollution_control/10488.html Wed, 1 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Admin. (OSHA; Washington, D.C.; www.osha.gov) has flagged combustible dusts as one of its top issues since the Imperial Sugar Mill explosion in Port Wentworth, Georgia, that killed 14 employees and injured many others in February 2008. Combustible dust is, in fact,... http://www.che.com/environmental_health_and_safety/plant_and_personnel_safety/dust_explosions/10456.html Wed, 1 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) and Valero have successfully implemented Praxair’s new CONOx emissions-control technology at Valero’s petroleum refinery in Ardmore, Oklahoma. This technology has helped the refinery meet its fluid-catalytic cracking (FCC) unit oxides-of-nitrogen... http://www.che.com/environmental_health_and_safety/environmental_mgmt/air_pollution_control/10440.html Fri, 19 Apr 2013 0:00:00 EDT There are several methods available to size relief valves. This article describes the inherent advantages of one of them.... http://www.che.com/environmental_health_and_safety/plant_and_personnel_safety/10394.html Mon, 1 Apr 2013 0:00:00 EDT This article reviews key aspects of safety-instrumented systems (SIS) and provides useful guidance to help designers and operators optimize efforts to conduct safety-related measurements. Special attention is provided to smart-transmitter diagnostics and digital protocols... http://www.che.com/environmental_health_and_safety/plant_and_personnel_safety/alarm_mgmt/10393.html Mon, 1 Apr 2013 0:00:00 EDT Users design safety instrumented systems to bring the risk of identified process hazards to within tolerable levels, using application-specific risk models, user inspection schedules, and safety data for the devices under consideration. A key problem when designing such systems is ensuring the relevance of the available data. Read more from this article that originally appeared in CE in July of 2003.... http://www.che.com/environmental_health_and_safety/plant_and_personnel_safety/10361.html Mon, 25 Mar 2013 0:00:00 EDT This article, which originally appeared in August, 2000, addresses avoiding uncontrolled-exothermic, or "runaway" reactions... http://www.che.com/environmental_health_and_safety/plant_and_personnel_safety/overpressure_and_runaways/10359.html Mon, 25 Mar 2013 0:00:00 EDT