Greetings virtual conference-goers, and welcome to the second day of the 2021 AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congress on Process Safety! Please note that Process Improvement Institute has one presentation on Tuesday, August 20th: (30b) Is Your SIF Trying to Do Too Much?: Arthur Dowell III (PII); 11:20 AM CDT. This is a [...]
We're about go into the last month of 2020, and even though many of us would like to get into the new year as fast as we can, December offers up the opportunity to beef up your process safety training with five great online course offerings from Process Improvement Institute! Human Error Prevention (12/7-12/8) This [...]
There's a new infographic poster in the Safety Instrumented System section of PII's Free Resources area, entitled A Proven Streamlined Approach to SIL Assessment Requirements. This infographic shows how to apply the qualitative definition of independent protection layers (IPLs) within the setting of a process hazard analysis (PHA) to get most of the gain from [...]
There's a new paper in the Safety Instrumented System (SIS) section of PII's Free Resources area, entitled SIL-3, SIL-2, and Unicorns (There Is a High Probability Your SIL 2 and SIL 3 SIFs Have No Better Performance Than SIL 1). This paper shows that specific human error during testing, calibration maintenance, and restoration of a [...]
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 [...]
