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Avoid Chemical Reactivity Incidents in Warehouses 

Avoid Chemical Reactivity Incidents in Warehouses 

Use this approach for the initial evaluation of potential reactivity hazards in storage applications. Chemical reactivity issues, with their...

BAKER REPORT: ANALYZING BP'S PROCESS SAFETY PROGRAM, THE 

BP plc chief executive officer, John Browne, failed to provide the leadership needed to keep the company's U.S. plants safe. This is the finding of...

Aftermath: Making Amends in Texas City, The 

The March 2005 explosion and fire at BP's Texas City refinery occurred in an isomerization unit used to make components for unleaded gasoline. The...

PROCESS TECHNOLOGY 

Water-Based Olefin Dispersions Meet New Performance Standards Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, MI; www.dow.com) has developed a series of...

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY 

Developing Materials for Solar-Based H^sub 2^ Production Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne...

Welcome to Our Global Abode 

I began my first international engineering project on January 27, 1986. A project team of French, Italian, and American chemical engineers gathered...

Green Chemistry: Frontiers in Benign Chemical Syntheses and Processes 

Green Chemistry: Frontiers in Benign Chemical Syntheses and Processes Edited by Paul T Anastas and Tracy C. Williamson, Oxford University Press,...

Bounding Parameter Estimates with Nonclassical Measurement Error.(Statistical Data Included) 

The bias introduced by errors in the measurement of independent variables has increasingly been a topic of interest among researchers estimating...

Apply heuristics to pollution prevention and control decisions 

Waste treatment and minimization in a multiproduct plant can present formidable challenges. These heuristics will help simplify the complicated...