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Registration for the 2020 Spring Meeting and 16th Global Congress on Process Safety is Coming Soon!

The AIChE Spring Meeting is the year’s key technical conference for practicing chemical engineers, and the 2020 edition will be held at the Hilton Americas and George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas! A wide range of subjects relevant to the current needs of industry is covered. Plus, the Global Congress on Process Safety [...]

By Mark Johnson|2019-11-21T14:45:06-07:00November 21st, 2019|Events, GCPS, HAZOP, Human Error, Human Factors, Incident Investigation, LOPA, MOC, Near Miss, PHA, PMI, Process Hazard Analysis, Process Safety, PSM, QRA, Root Cause, SIF, SIL, SIS, Training|Comments Off

Failure Rates of Piping
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Failure Rates of Piping

Failure Rate, PMI

Failure Rates of Piping

There is data in the new book, Guidelines for Initiating Events and Independent Protection Layers, 2015, CCPS/AIChE. (It is finally published as of January 8, 2015.) The failure rate is presented in probability of failure (due to damage mechanism such as corrosion) per meter of pipe. Two different values (for different diameter ranges) are presented [...]

By Bill Bridges|2015-02-03T12:30:40-07:00February 3rd, 2015|Failure Rate, PMI|Comments Off