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2018 Public Course Calendar CCPS’ The OSHA Regulatory Approach to SAChE® Certificate Program – Sustainability + Environment
Process Safety Management ...................................................................... 25 Hazards and Risk: What Can Go Wrong?................................................. 40
September – December .................................................................................5 IfS’ Product Stewardship ............................................................................. 51
CCPS’ OSHA Process Safety Management Review.................................. 25 SAChE® Certificate Program –
Hazards and Risk: Introduction to Pressure Protection............................... 40 IfS’ Supply and Value Chain Management for Engineers......................... 52
CCPS’ What Every New Engineer Needs to Know
Chemical Engineering Practice IfS’ Essentials of Environmental Life Cycle Assessment ............................. 53
about Process Safety.................................................................................... 26 SAChE® Certificate Program –
AIChE’s Basics of the Chemical Industry........................................................6 CCPS’ Managing Process Safety Risks During Identifying & Minimizing Process Safety Hazards .................................... 40
Professional Development
AIChE’s Maintenance and Reliability for Chemical Engineers......................7 Organizational Change............................................................................... 27 SAChE® Certificate Program – Inherently Safer Design............................... 40
AIChE’s Control System Techniques in Equipment Design CCPS’ Senior Leaders & Process Safety: SAChE® Certificate Program – Nitrogen’s Role in Safety............................ 41 AIChE’s Professional Ethics & Excellence
and Operations................................................................................................8 The Role & The Opportunity......................................................................... 28 for Chemical Engineers................................................................................ 54
SAChE® Certificate Program –
AIChE’s Distillation in Practice........................................................................8 CCPS’ The Importance of Codes and Standards Process Safety Lessons Taught from Experience . ...................................... 41 AIChE’s Intellectual Property for Chemical Engineers............................... 54
for Process Safety.......................................................................................... 29
AIChE’s Distillation in Practice........................................................................9 SAChE® Certificate Program – Risk Assessment............................................ 41 AIChE’s Six Sigma: A Practical Overview.................................................. 55
AIChE’s Combustible Dust Hazards: AIChE’s Introduction to Project Management............................................ 56
AIChE’s Heat Exchanger Design and Operations..................................... 10 SAChE® Certificate Program – Runaway Reactions..................................... 41
Flash Fires and Dust Explosions................................................................... 30
AIChE’s Industrial Fluid Mixing for Engineers............................................. 10 SAChE® Certificate Program – AIChE’s Project Management for Chemical Engineers............................. 57
CCPS’ Incident Investigation........................................................................ 31
AIChE’s Integrated Process Synthesis......................................................... 12 The Importance of Process Safety................................................................ 41 AIChE’s The Keys to Managing
CCPS’ Inherently Safer Design.................................................................... 31 a Capital Project Successfully...................................................................... 57
AIChE’s Principles and Practices of Chemical Reactor SAChE® Certificate Program – Toxicological Hazards................................ 41
CCPS’ Recognizing Catastrophic Incident Warning Signs....................... 32 AIChE’s The Three Keys to Managing
Design and Operations................................................................................ 12 SAChE® Certificate Program –
CPS’ Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)................................................... 32 Understanding Hazards & Risk.................................................................... 41 a Project Successfully . ................................................................................. 58
AIChE’s Applied Separations –
Evaporation and Adsorption....................................................................... 13 CCPS’ HAZOP Studies................................................................................. 33 AIChE’s Modeling Techniques in Excel....................................................... 59
CCPS’ HAZOP Studies and Other PHA Techniques for Chemicals + Materials AIChE’s Spreadsheet Problem-Solving
For Those Who Work with Chemical Engineers Process Safety and Risk Management ....................................................... 34 for Chemical Engineers................................................................................ 60
AIChE’s Crystallization Operations............................................................ 42
CCPS’ Advanced Concepts for Process Hazard Analysis......................... 35 AIChE’s Spreadsheet Problem-Solving
AIChE’s Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers .................. 14 AIChE’s Crystallization Process Development........................................... 42 for Chemical Engineers................................................................................ 61
AIChE’s Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers .................. 15 CCPS’ Process Safety Management for Biodiesel..................................... 36
AIChE’s Flow of Solids in Bins, Hoppers, AIChE’s Excel VBA Programming for Chemical Engineers........................ 62
AIChE’s Essentials of Chemical Engineering for Operators...................... 16 CCPS’ Process Safety Management for Bioethanol.................................. 36 Chutes and Feeders...................................................................................... 43
AIChE’s Excel VBA Programming for Chemical Engineers........................ 63
CCPS’ Process Safety Leadership for Front-Line Supervisors..................... 16 DIERS’ Basic Emergency Relief System Design.......................................... 37 AIChE’s Flow of Solids in Bins, Hoppers,
AIChE’s Cash Flow Principles for Chemical Engineers.............................. 63
AIChE’s Distillation Technology for Operators........................................... 17 DIERS’ Advanced Emergency Relief System Design.................................. 38 Chutes and Feeders...................................................................................... 44
AIChE’s Chemical Process Economic Evaluations...................................... 64
AIChE’s Fluid Mixing Technology for Operators....................................... 17 AIChE’s Pneumatic Conveying of Bulk Solids............................................. 45
AIChE’s Decision and Risk Analysis for Projects......................................... 65
SAChE® Certificate Program AIChE’s Pneumatic Conveying of Bulk Solids............................................. 46
CCPS’ Hazard Identification for Operations
AIChE’s Economic Evaluation for Chemical Engineers.............................. 66
and Maintenance Workers.......................................................................... 18 SAChE® Certificate Program – AIChE’s Particle and Bulk Solids
AIChE’s Conceptual Development and
CCPS’ Hazard Identification for Operators An Introduction to Managing Process Safety Hazards............................. 39 Characterization Technology...................................................................... 46
Capital Cost Estimating................................................................................ 67
and Maintenance Workers ......................................................................... 19 SAChE® Certificate Program – Basics of Laboratory Safety........................ 39 AIChE’s Particle Technology........................................................................ 47
AIChE’s Project Evaluation:
SAChE® Certificate Program – Operating Cost Estimating & Financial Analysis ....................................... 68
Process Safety Chemical Process Safety in the Chemical Process Industries..................... 39 Biological Engineering
AIChE’s Value Propositions for Your
CCPS’ Process Safety Boot Camp............................................................... 20 SAChE Certificate Program – Chemical Reactivity Hazards..................... 39
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SBE’s Biomanufacturing for Chemical Engineers....................................... 48 Chemical Process Project............................................................................. 69
CCPS’ Overview of Risk-Based Process Safety.......................................... 22 SAChE Certificate Program – Dust Explosion Control................................ 39
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SBE’s Bioseparations: Principles, Applications
CCPS’ 20 Elements of Risk-Based Process Safety (RBPS).......................... 23 SAChE® Certificate Program – Fire Hazards................................................ 40 and Scale-Up................................................................................................ 49 Instructor Bios
CCPS’ Process Safety Management Overview......................................... 24 SAChE® Certificate Program – Hazard Recognition.................................... 40 SBE’s Biotechnology for Chemical Engineers............................................. 50 Instructor Bios................................................................................................ 70
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2018 PUBLIC COURSE CALENDAR
AIChE Academy’s Public Courses are a great way to
Welcome to the latest AIChE Academy catalog. Inside, you’ll find nearly 100 courses relevant to Chemical Engineers—and the people they
work with—from process safety to capital project planning to bioengineering and more. We’ve added new eLearning courses and public
get in-person training globally. Secure your spot today.
courses, and we’ve expanded our ability to bring Academy training to your facility or institution.
AIChE Academy makes it possible to find the finest chemical engineering training in one convenient location. Visit the AIChE Academy
website to find content to meet your educational needs and professional development goals. The site is fully searchable by format, subject, 2018 CALENDAR
and keyword.
AIChE Academy Courses are Created and Taught by Experts.
September 24 – 27 September 24 – 26
Every course offered by the AIChE Academy has been developed by professionals with acknowledged proficiency in the subject matter.
All course content has been reviewed by teams of experts drawn from these professional bodies: Process Safety Boot Camp DECHEMA/CCPS’ HAZOP Studies and Other PHA
Chicago, IL Techniques for Process Safety and Risk Management
• AIChE, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, is the world’s leading professional organization for chemical engineers. AIChE
members work at companies across the chemical enterprise and teach at leading universities in more than 110 countries. Frankfurt am Main · Germany
September 25 – 27
• CCPS, the Center for Chemical Process Safety, focuses on process safety R&D. The member companies of CCPS work together to Distillation in Practice September 27 – 28
develop and implement guidelines and practices that significantly reduce the risk of process safety incidents. DECHEMA/CCPS’ Advanced Concepts
Atlanta, GA
• SBE, the Society for Biological Engineering, organizes conferences, operates research consortia and acts to promote emerging for Process Hazard Analysis
technologies that apply chemical engineering knowledge in biological applications. October 2 – 4
Frankfurt am Main · Germany
Basic Emergency Relief System Design
• IfS, the Institute for Sustainability, serves the needs of and influences the efforts of professionals, academes, industries, and
governmental bodies that contribute to the advancement of sustainability and sustainable development. Houston, TX October 15 – 17
DECHEMA/AIChE‘s Essentials of Chemical Engineering
Choose from Online, In-person and Onsite Course Delivery. October 3 – 5
for Non-Chemical Engineers
AIChE Academy courses are delivered as online eLearning courses or Face-to-Face public courses. Many subjects are available in both Essentials of Chemical Engineering for
Frankfurt am Main · Germany
formats, and any course from the AIChE Academy can be delivered onsite at your company. Contact us to find out how any AIChE Non-Chemical Engineers
Academy course can be customized to your company’s operations! For a consultation, please contact us at academy@aiche.org. Chicago, IL November 6 – 7
Visit the AIChE Academy for Recorded Conference Presentations, Proceedings, Webinar Bundles and Videos. DECHEMA/AIChE’s Flow of Solids in Bins, Hoppers,
October 9 – 11
AIChE Academy offers more than just the best training for chemical engineers and the people they work with—it’s also your go-to source Chutes and Feeders
Flow of Solids/Pneumatic Conveying Combo Course Frankfurt am Main · Germany
for technical information, including live and archived webinars, conference recordings and proceedings, and videos that illustrate key
chemical engineering principles. Philadelphia, PA
November 8
I encourage you to visit www.aiche.org/academy and see all that the AIChE Academy has to offer. October 15 – 19 DECHEMA/AIChE’s Pneumatic Conveying
Sincerely, HAZOP Studies/Advanced PHA Concepts of Bulk Solids
Combo Course Frankfurt am Main · Germany
New York, NY
Anne A. Schaeffer
Director, AIChE Academy October 23 – 25
Spreadsheet Problem-Solving and VBA Programming
P.S. Many professional engineers use courses from the AIChE Academy to satisfy their continuing education requirements.*
Combo Course
New Orleans, LA
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AIChE’s Basics of the Chemical Industry AIChE’s Maintenance and Reliability for Chemical Engineers
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE

www.aiche.org/ela142 | Course ID: ELA142 www.aiche.org/ela143 | Course ID: ELA143
AIChE Members – $595 AIChE Members – $595
AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $297.50 AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $297.50
Non-Members – $895 Non-Members – $895
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Gain a high-level view of the manufacture and markets Who Should Attend: Equipment performance is vital to meeting safety, • Direct chemical engineers to achieve productivity and
for roughly 70 important products and intermediates, productivity, reliability and cost goals. In this course, cost goals through improved equipment performance
• Process engineers
including simplified flow diagrams for 22 of them. This you’ll learn how to save time and money by keeping • Determine whether the response to equipment care is
online course makes the connections from raw basic • Chemists your equipment processes and operations within based mostly on reactive maintenance or proactive tasks
materials to components into the consumer market. • Market managers operating windows. prior to equipment failure
• Those new to the chemical industry • Develop a plan for implementing maintenance and
Look at characterizing fossil fuels—oil, gas and coal— This online course will allow you to make a business case
and their abundance and markets. Discuss biomass as for improving maintenance and reliability by reviewing reliability practices
Your Instructor:
a chemical feedstock, steam crackers, and chemical maintenance and reliability principles and practices you • Apply maintenance material management practices that
Gary Sawyer support effective equipment care strategies
derivatives from coal and natural gas, such as methanol, can apply to any asset-intensive setting. In eight modules,
acetic acid and others. Examine derivatives from ethylene, you’ll address how to eliminate reactive work and perform
propylene, mixed C4 streams, and aromatics and review preventive, precision and lubrication maintenance. You’ll Who Should Attend:
other important processes such as ammonia and chlor-alkali. understand the importance of setting and monitoring This course is designed for those with responsibility for
operating windows, adopting equipment care strategies managing asset performance, including plant, production
You Will Learn: and implementing essential maintenance material and maintenance management professionals as well as
• How fossil fuels and biomass are characterized, management practices. This course also covers performance process, mechanical and chemical engineers. It will be
and about their markets as feedstocks for the assessment and analytics. of special interest to those in the discrete manufacturing
chemical industry industries, including consumer and industrial products. It
By the end of the course, you’ll have knowledge of also applies to process manufacturing and to the oil and
• The importance and general operation of steam many maintenance and reliability best practices and will
crackers (olefins plants) gas, chemical, food and beverage and pulp and paper
know how to deliver high reliability while fulfilling your industries. Those in supervision and maintenance that
• Fundamental process chemistry and markets for over NOT A MEMBER? organization’s productivity and cost goals. manage infrastructure assets—such as buildings, industrial
80 intermediates and products, from light olefins to Belong to AIChE, the global home complexes, government and municipal structures—should
complex polymers You Will Learn: also attend.
• Process and general market insight for basic processes
of chemical engineers.
• Build a business plan for improving equipment
such as methanol, ammonia, chlor-alkali, and other performance, based on maintenance and reliability Your Instructor:
many others
AIChE Members always pay the lowest
best practices David A. Rosenthal
price for education offerings. • Develop equipment care strategies around preventive,
predictive and operator-driven tasks
Learn more at www.aiche.org/join
Register online at www.aiche.org/academy or call 1-800-242-4363 (or 1-203-702-7660 outside the U.S.) Register online at www.aiche.org/academy or call 1-800-242-4363 (or 1-203-702-7660 outside the U.S.)
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AIChE’s Control System Techniques in AIChE’s Distillation in Practice AIChE’s Distillation in Practice

Equipment Design and Operations
www.aiche.org/ch762 | Course ID: CH762 www.aiche.org/ela112 | Course ID: ELA112

Available as Train-a-Team offering. AIChE Members – $895 www.aiche.org/ch004 | Course ID: CH004
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $447.50 ALSO
Non-Members – $1,195 AIChE Members – $1,895 AVAILABLE
AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $947.50 AS
E ALSO Non-Members – $2,195
AVAILABLE ELA112
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CH004
A high level of automation and sophistication is required to This online course covers essential distillation While the basic principles underlying distillation remain Who Should Attend:
control process parameters and detect equipment faults in concepts likely to be faced by process support, unchanged, new hardware, problem-solving and
New and veteran engineers and others who must
today’s petrochemical plants. Join control system expert A. operations, and process design engineering personnel. troubleshooting strategies, and modeling techniques
troubleshoot and solve difficult distillation problems in the
S. Rangwala and learn automatic control theory methods Along with a review of vapor-liquid equilibrium, this course continue to be developed.
plant or conceptualize problems in the engineering office
that enhance efficiency and provide operational safety by covers process design, column operation and simulation
Join distillation expert John P. Farone, get up to date on or laboratory—including those in the areas of:
ensuring that process parameters do not exceed design issues. In addition, you will also learn about specification
capability. Bring a laptop to this course, in which you’ll try and selection of the appropriate distillation hardware. essential distillation concepts and developments, and learn • Process support
out the concepts and tools you learn so that you can apply how to apply them to improve process support, operations • Operations
them in your own environment. You Will Learn: and design. • Design engineering
• Fundamentals: vapor-liquid equilibrium, stages and
You Will Learn: transfer units
In three days, you’ll address essential distillation concepts Your Instructor:
you’re likely to face in process support, operations and
• Mechanical, thermal, electrical, electronic, pneumatic • Practice: general column design, tray column design, John Farone
design engineering. You’ll discover how to specify and
and fluid control elements packed column design, other devices, and methods select the most appropriate distillation hardware. Plus,
• Feedback mechanisms for predicting efficiency you’ll learn methods for predicting efficiency using some
• How to identify forced excitation sources • Other topics: scale-up, start-up & troubleshooting, of today’s modeling techniques.
• Valves for overpressure relief and enhanced distillation “The course dealt well with practical aspects of
You Will Learn: distillation. Instructor was very knowledgeable
• Flow regulation and proportional control Who Should Attend:
• Self-tuning and compensation in controller design • Thermodynamics, vapor-liquid equilibrium, and and promoted a great atmosphere.”
Engineers or other professionals who must troubleshoot basic chemical engineering principles
• How to alleviate vibration instability and solve difficult distillation problems in the plant —AIChE Academy Course Participant
• Techniques for solving simulation issues, process
or conceptualize difficult distillation problems in the design considerations and column operations
Who Should Attend:
engineering office or laboratory.
Professionals in: • Guidelines for specifying and purchasing the
Your Instructor: right hardware
• Chemical design and development engineering
• Problem-solving and troubleshooting distillation
• Process control John Farone
problems in the real world
• Purchasing, sales, manufacture, field repair and • Predicting efficiency using the latest modeling
inspection of chemical process equipment techniques
Your Instructor: For 2018 Public Course dates and locations, see
A. S. Rangwala Register online at www.aiche.org/academy page 5.
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AIChE’s Heat Exchanger AIChE’s Industrial Fluid Mixing
TRAIN-A-TEAM
Design and Operations for Engineers
SET THE STAGE FOR SUCCESS

WITH AIChE® ACADEMY.
TRAINING FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERS AND THOSE THEY WORK WITH

Your success depends on employees who are trained and up-to-date on what’s new and what’s changing
Available as Train-a-Team offering. AIChE Members – $695 relevant to their complex and critically important jobs. But providing that training when and how they need
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $347.50
Non-Members – $995 it and within your budget can be difficult.
E AIChE Academy’s Train-a-Team approach makes training your staff easier. Choose from two group training
solutions that are cost-effective and convenient, eliminate travel costs and give you confidence knowing your
Heat exchangers are critical to a wide variety of engineering This online course covers fundamentals in mixing theory, staff is performing at the top of their game.
applications—from power plants to chemical processing including a section on scale-up, practical applications to
facilities. When they go down, you feel the negative impact. mixing technology and advanced topics such as the solid- SELECT THE TRAIN-A-TEAM SOLUTION THAT FITS YOUR NEEDS:
Join a heat exchanger expert and get up to date on the
latest developments and strategies in heat exchanger design
liquid process. Engineers gain an excellent understanding
of the fundamentals of mixing and learn how to apply the On-Site Training Delivered at Your Location Minimize
and the diagnosis, correction and troubleshooting of costly
operating problems.
right technology to the mixing process.
This is a chance to broaden your perspective, whether

Face-to-face training customized to address your specific needs. costs.
Simplify scheduling, train more employees and get them on the
Maximize
In two days, you’ll examine in detail the design of shell-and- you’re a director of engineering and/or research,
tube exchanger technology—the most common type of heat a process engineer doing research, a mechanical same page at a reasonable cost.
exchanger in oil refineries and chemical processes—and equipment specialist, a technician, a development/
learn how to minimize fouling and ensure trouble-free
operation. You’ll learn how to efficiently operate other types
design engineer, a chemist or a vendor engineer. Online eLearning Delivered to Your PCs learning.
of exchangers, including gasketed plate, spiral plate and You Will Learn: Easily accessible online training, anytime and anywhere. Start
air-cooled equipment. • The fundamentals of mixing
• A comparison of the performance characteristics of
right away with just a click and return to the course for review, Start today.
You Will Learn: at your convenience.
fluid foil impellers vs. traditionally designed models
• The critical aspects of heat exchanger design
• How to apply Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) data
• The thermal design of shell-and-tube heaters, coolers, and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) THE AIChE ACADEMY DIFFERENCE:
column reboilers and condensers
• How to analyze a variety of geometric variables,
• How to quickly and accurately troubleshoot, diagnose including: tank shape, impeller spacing and baffles • The Go-To for Chemical Engineering Training. Choose from subject matter relevant to industry and
and correct operating problems in every subject of importance to today’s chemical engineers—from biological engineering and energy,
• How to scale up and scale down by using practical,
proven techniques of meeting geometrical similarity to separations, solids handling and beyond.
Who Should Attend:
New and experienced chemical and mechanical Who Should Attend: • Industry Expertise Only AIChE Academy Provides. Learn from the world’s leading organization
engineers involved in plant operations, technical services, for chemical engineering professionals. AIChE Academy courses are developed and taught by
• Process or mechanical engineers involved in the design
or project design; or those who handle projects and experienced engineers.
and/or selection of mixers
assignments related to heat exchanger sizing, specification,
and operation. • R&D engineers who use mixers which must be scaled to
commercial equipment
Your Instructor: Make AIChE Academy Your Complete Group Training Resource, Starting Today!
Your Instructor:
Joseph W. Holmes or S. Greg Starks
W. Roy Penney
To learn more email academy@aiche.org or visit aiche.org/trainateam
Register online at www.aiche.org/academy or call 1-800-242-4363 (or 1-203-702-7660 outside the U.S.)
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AIChE’s Integrated Process AIChE’s Principles & Practices of AIChE’s Applied Separations — Evaporation and Adsorption

Synthesis Chemical Reactor Design & Operations
www.aiche.org/ch756 | Course ID: CH756 www.aiche.org/ch522 | Course ID: CH522 www.aiche.org/ela129 | Course ID: ELA129
Available as Train-a-Team offering. Available as Train-a-Team offering. AIChE Members – $695
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $347.50
Non-Members – $995
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Join process synthesis and integration experts Diane Improve your ability to design unconventional reactor Gain a practical understanding of evaporators and • Describe how to apply energy-saving strategies such as
Hildebrandt and Bilal Patel and learn novel design and configurations—even when equations for them are not adsorption columns used in chemical engineering unit multiple-effect evaporation and vapor recompression
analysis techniques you can implement early on to avoid available—by adopting a new outlook and approach. Join operations and processes. • Identify strategies for selecting the best adsorbent—
costly revisions to processes while reducing material and chemical reactor technology expert Uzi Mann and gain including various types of activated carbon, polymeric
energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. knowledge and tools you can apply to the design of any In this online course, you’ll discover how heat transfer adsorbents, and zeolite molecular sieves—for a given
reactor configuration, with any number of reactions, with occurs in evaporators and learn about evaporator mass adsorption challenge
In three days, you’ll discover tools that allow you to gain any stoichiometry, and with any form of rate expression. and energy balances, sizing calculations, and different
insight into a process by emphasizing the unity of the types of evaporation equipment. You’ll identify energy- • Analyze equipment used in industrial processes for
process. You’ll learn how to apply mass, energy and This intensive three-day course will broaden your capabilities saving strategies such as multiple-effect evaporation and activated carbon adsorption, including not only the
entropy balances in an entirely new way for the synthesis and prepare you to address and troubleshoot the complex vapor recompression. In addition, you’ll compare types of adsorber itself but also regeneration equipment
of flowsheets. You’ll examine how to analyze equipment— technical challenges you face today. evaporators—the advantages, disadvantages and suitable • Explain how to optimize process conditions for
such as reactors and distillation columns—using mass, applications of each. maximum performance of activated carbon and
energy and entropy balances to identify, measure, and You Will Learn: polymeric adsorbents
reduce inefficiencies. • How to describe reactor operations in terms of Explore adsorption equilibrium, fixed-bed operation and • Discuss concepts relevant to ion exchange, including:
dimensionless variables that vary between -1 and 1 the mass transfer zone concept. You’ll delve into calculation the various types of ion exchange resins, how to predict
You Will Learn: of breakthrough capacity and efficiency of adsorbent ion exchange resin performance using equilibrium
• Designing semi-batch reactors, reactors with distributed usage, absorber design and scale-up considerations. This
• Integrated process synthesis—an overview feed and distillation reactors calculations, and ion exchange process flow diagrams
course also covers activated carbon, the most widely used • Describe the use of zeolite molecular sieves for
• Mass balance • Dimensionless operating curves adsorbent, including types of carbon, design of carbon-
• Energy balance separation of molecules that are only slightly different
• Economic-based optimization and process control handling equipment, regeneration options and factors in size or polarity
• Defining the work of separation • Determining profit-based vs. yield-based design and affecting performance.
• Developing flowsheets operating conditions Who Should Attend:
You Will Learn:
• Chemical engineers
Who Should Attend: Who Should Attend: • Discuss the functioning of evaporators, including: how
heat transfer occurs in evaporators, how to size an • Mechanical engineers
Professionals working with production processes in the Chemical engineers and other professionals who are
chemical industries—including: involved in the design, operation and optimization of evaporator for a given application, and how physical • Chemical process scientists
processes with chemical reactors. properties such as viscosity and boiling point elevation • Chemical technologists
• Design engineers
effect evaporator performance • Technical managers
• Developers of new processes Your Instructor: • Describe the principles, advantages and disadvantages • Those in the bulk and specialty chemical, petroleum,
• Process chemical engineers of the various types of evaporators, including batch,
Uzi Mann food, flavors and other industries
• Chemical engineers who work with laboratory teams short- and long-tube vertical, forced circulation, plate and
agitated thin-film evaporators, and select the right type for Your Instructor:
Your Instructors: a given application
Alan Gabelman
Diane Hildebrandt and Bilal Patel
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AIChE’s Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers AIChE’s Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers
FOR THOSE WHO WORK WITH CHEMICAL ENGINEERS

ALSO ALSO
AIChE Members – $1,795 AVAILABLE AIChE Members – $995 AVAILABLE
AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $947.50 AS AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $497.50 AS
Non-Members – $2,095 ELA110 Non-Members – $1,295 CH710
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In today’s workplace, non-engineers are increasingly • What you need to know about fluid flow, heat transfer, This online course is designed for technicians in the • Mass transfer concepts, distillation, absorption,
expected to work with chemical engineers on projects, heat exchanger design and cooling towers chemical industry and non-chemical engineers who work stripping/desorption, chromatography, ion exchange,
scale-ups and process evaluations. But to do so, you • Separation technologies—including distillation, with or supervise chemical engineers, as well as legal and extraction
need a solid understanding of basic concepts of chemical absorption, stripping, adsorption, ion exchange and other professionals who must interact with or manage • Evaporation, crystallization, filtration, and drying
engineering analysis, design and calculations. Join and membranes chemical engineering work.
• Solids handling, characterization, transfer, and storage
chemical engineering expert Jack Hipple and gain the
• What every non-engineer needs to understand about Participants will learn the basic concepts of chemical • Process control
knowledge of the fundamentals of chemical engineering
evaporation, crystallization, liquid-solid separations engineering, including safety and reactive chemicals,
you need to understand, communicate with and work with • Polymers and plastics
and drying stoichiometry, kinetics, mass and energy balances,
chemical engineers. • Tanks and process vessels
• Solids handling—the basics pumps and fluid flow, distillation, and other mass
In three days, you’ll learn how to hold your own in • The basics of tank and vessel design transfer operations such as absorption, stripping and Who Should Attend:
discussions on safety, industrial hygiene, and reactive • Essentials of polymerization and polymer processing chromatography, drying, filtration, crystallization, solids
Engineering managers without a chemical engineering
chemicals. You’ll gain an understanding of the basics of handling, process control, tanks and vessel basics, and
• A working knowledge of process control background, chemists, non-chemical engineers, patent
fluid flow, heat transfer, heat exchanger design, and cooling cooling towers. Industrial examples are used throughout the
attorneys, and legal and government personnel who
towers, and will learn how to apply them. You’ll also learn Who Should Attend: course to demonstrate how the fundamentals of chemical
interface with chemical engineers and the chemical
the basics of solids handling, tank and vessel design, engineering are applied in the real world.
Non-engineers and engineers without formal chemical industry. Participants from any size of company or
polymerization and polymer processing, and how use this
engineering training who have up to three years of You Will Learn: industry in the chemical, petrochemical, and materials
knowledge to sharpen projects and evaluations. Through
experience working in a plant with chemical engineers. processing industries.
case studies, you’ll see the concepts you learn in action so • About the chemical engineering profession, and
you can apply them in your workplace when collaborating It will be especially valuable to:
what it entails Your Instructor:
with chemical engineers on projects, chemistry scale-ups, • Operating technicians
• Safety and reactive chemical concepts, including Jack Hipple
process evaluations and other initiatives. • Engineering managers who are not chemical engineers reaction stoichiometry
You Will Learn: • Chemists • Chemical stoichiometry and unit conversions
• DHS, EPA and other government employees • Mass and energy balances
• The role of chemical engineering and chemistry scale-up
• Other engineers • Fluid flow and pumping equipment
• The basics of stoichiometry
• Commonly used chemical engineering calculations Your Instructor: • Heat transfer and heat exchangers, cooling towers
• The basics of safety, industrial hygiene and reactive Jack Hipple
chemicals
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AIChE’s Essentials of Chemical CCPS’ Process Safety Leadership AIChE’s Distillation Technology AIChE’s Fluid Mixing Technology

Engineering for Operators for Front-Line Supervisors for Operators for Operators
www.aiche.org/ela117 | Course ID: ELA117 www.aiche.org/ela122 | Course ID: ELA122 www.aiche.org/ela113 | Course ID: ELA113 www.aiche.org/ela116 | Course ID: ELA116
AIChE Members – $169 AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS AIChE Members – $169 AIChE Members – $169
AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $84.50 Member Companies – $595 AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $84.50 AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $84.50
Non-Members – $199 AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $297.50 Non-Members – $199 Non-Members – $199
E E E
P ALSO
AVAILABLE
A dynamic online course on the fundamentals of chemical Front-line supervisors have more control IN Gain an understanding of the theory underlying successful Starting with the fundamentals (the basic principles
engineering for those who are not chemical engineers, but and influence over process safety than SPANISH distillation processes—and, beyond theory, learn what of mixing), this online course continues with practical
who work with them. This course offers a comprehensive anyone else in the plant. When they do actually happens in a column. applications to mixing technology and ends with
overview of the function, principles, requirements, and their job well, everyone works safely. advanced topics such as solid-liquid processes.
operation of process equipment. Throughout the course, Don’t take any chances. In this online course, gain the This online course covers a wide range of topics, from Operators will gain an excellent understanding of
professionals will learn key concepts and will develop a understanding of process safety concepts (and their basic column design to installation, start-up, shutdown and mixing theories and how they work in today’s mixing
deeper understanding of how chemical engineering relates execution) that you need to successfully implement more. Your instructor, a distillation technology expert, will technology, without getting too product specific.
to their disciplines. your organization’s game plan for safety. You’ll delve detail the critical aspects of operating principles common
into many of the practices and responsibilities that are to most distillation operations, regardless of the distillates You Will Learn:
You Will Learn: traditionally in the hands of front-line supervisors— being produced. • Mixing theories and how they are applied in
• How to participate in discussions about conservation including implementing operating and maintenance the real world
procedures, managing contractors, auditing, and You Will Learn:
principles, chemical reactions thermodynamics, and • Advances in mixing technology
equilibrium identifying hazards and risks. • The fundamentals of distillation and the distillation process
• Fundamentals of mixing technology, including
• The basics of fluid flow and mixing, heat exchangers, • How to leverage distillation technology basics in your physical properties and hydrodynamics
You Will Learn:
chemical reactors and process control overall system design and in tray and packed-column
• Operating and maintenance procedures design • Practice: mixing equipment, blending, heat transfer
• How to confidently handle complex concepts, including and troubleshooting
distillation and mass transfer operations • Work force involvement • Advanced knowledge of installation, start-up and
shutdown, troubleshooting and distillation column control • An in-depth look at solid-liquid processes and
• To broaden your view of chemical engineering and • Contractor management
gas-liquid dispersion
how it relates to your discipline • Hazard identification and risks • A solid foundation in the principles of operations that
• Incident investigation apply across all products Who Should Attend:
Who Should Attend:
• Conduct of operations Who Should Attend: • Beginning operators
• Chemists
• Process safety leadership • Engineers or chemists who troubleshoot difficult • Experienced operators
• Civil and mechanical engineers
distillation problems in plant or who conceptualize • Technicians or non-engineers who could use a
• Electrical and industrial engineers Who Should Attend: better understanding of mixing theories to improve
difficult distillation problems in the engineering office
• Construction engineers Operations and maintenance front-line supervisors or laboratory their performance and results
• Technical project managers responsible for supervising and/or advising unit • Distillation veterans
operators, maintenance crews and contractors. Your Instructor:
• Scientists • Distillation newcomers with a few years of experience
W. Roy Penney
Your Instructor:
Your Instructor:
This course was authored by 12 process safety experts. Please visit
www.aiche.org/ela122 for more information. John Farone
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CCPS’ Hazard Identification CCPS’ Hazard Identification for Operators and Maintenance Workers

for Operators and AIChE Academy
Maintenance Workers Process Safety Curriculum
Chemical Engineering’s Go-To
Source for Process Safety Training
The AIChE Academy Process Safety
Curriculum was developed by a
team of experts to serve as a training
guide for Chemical Engineers. It is
designed to help guide learners based
on their job role. It employs both the
CCPS 20 Elements of Risk Based Process
www.aiche.org/ch166 | Course ID: CH166 Safety framework and the AIChE Body www.aiche.org/ela121 | Course ID: ELA121
of Knowledge Personas (slightly adapted) ALSO ALSO
Available as Train-a-Team offering. AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS Member Companies – $129 AVAILABLE AVAILABLE
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam to help users determine what courses or AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $64.50 AS IN
Non-Members – $169 CH166 SPANISH
other resources to take advantage of.
E
ALSO For more information or questions
This course provides participants with the
knowledge and skills to more effectively AVAILABLE about the curriculum, please contact
AS This online course helps operators learn how to recognize Your Instructors:
identify process and mechanical hazards academy@aiche.org. and respond to hazards at the field level. Attendees
in the workplace, as well as strategize a ELA121 This course was authored by 12 process safety experts. Please visit
learn how to identify, rank and address the physical
method for dealing with them. www.aiche.org/ela121 for more information.
and process safety hazards they may encounter in
the workplace. Process hazards are less obvious than
The course follows a workshop format with several videos,
physical hazards, and they can’t always be detected at
case studies and team breakout exercises. Quizzes are
first glance. As a result, additional effort and different
conducted at the end of each module to ensure that
approaches may be required to identify process
participants have a good grasp of the material that was
hazards so that they are addressed appropriately.
covered. The instructor-led course includes exclusive
content not available in the eLearning format. You Will Learn:
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You Will Learn: • Introduction to hazards
CPS
• Introduction to hazards and hazard identification • Physical and process hazards An AIChE Technology Alliance
• Physical and mechanical hazards • Human behavior

• Hazard recognition techniques • Addressing and preventing hazards
Center for Chemical Process Safety
• Process hazards Who Should Attend:
• Use of human senses to identify hazards
Industrial plant operations and maintenance The Center for Chemical Process Safety
• Work hazards workers who need to have practical methods for (CCPS) is a not-for-profit, corporate
• Hazard evaluation and ranking identifying and managing physical and process
hazards. This course could also benefit: membership organization within AIChE
Who Should Attend:
• Those who are planning on participating in a formal that identifies and addresses process safety
• Process operators Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) or safety review
needs for a variety of facilities involved
• Maintenance craftsmen • Those responsible for providing resources for hazard
• Engineers control and elimination with handling, storing, using or processing,
• Production foremen and safety specialists • Safety inspectors or regulators and transporting hazardous materials.
• Safety professionals
Your Instructor: Learn more at www.aiche.org/ccps
Scott Berger or Brian Kelly
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CCPS’ Process Safety Boot Camp CCPS’ Process Safety Boot Camp (cont’d)
PROCESS SAFETY
PROCESS SAFETY
www.aiche.org/ch900 | Course ID: CH900 Available outside of
AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS Member Companies – $2,195 North America as COURSE OVERVIEW:
AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $1,097.50 CH910/Foundations
of Process Safety. Day 1 Day 2
Non-Members – $2,495
• Introduction • Introduction to management systems and risk-based
P • Occupational safety vs. process safety process safety
CCPS’ Process Safety Boot Camp, AIChE Academy’s most Who Should Attend: • Business case for process safety • Process safety culture & compliance with standards
popular course, was developed especially for companies • Key principles of process safety • Inherently safer concepts
Technical staff in the process industries, pipeline industries,
looking to train their staff in the fundamental concepts • Anatomy of an incident • Process design
utility companies, and engineering service companies who
of Process Safety. It is widely used by corporate training • Process safety competency
need to move beyond an understanding of personal safety • Containment and control
departments across different sectors of the chemical
and learn the basics of Process Safety and Process Safety • Prevention • Workforce involvement
enterprise. Companies large, small and in between
Management, including: • Human factors
use CCPS’ Process Safety Boot Camp to ramp up staff • Mitigation
knowledge to a common level quickly and easily. • Chemical Engineers • Stakeholder outreach
• Process Design Engineers • Process knowledge management
This intensive 4-day course is taught by two seasoned • Manufacturing Engineers
instructors, each with a minimum of 25 years of experience • Understanding material hazards
• Chemists
in process safety. The agenda covers key process safety
areas, including Risk-based Process Safety, Process Hazard • Mechanical and Reliability Engineers
Analysis, Regulatory Compliance and Process Safety in • Instrumentation/Automation Engineers Day 3 Day 4
Plant and Design Operations. • Shift Supervisors • Specific hazards • Hot work permits, etc.
You Will Learn: • Lead Operators • Chemical hazards • Asset integrity and reliability
• EHS Specialists • Reactivity • Contractor management
• The Four Pillars and 20 Elements of Risk-Based
Process Safety • Managers who wish to gain a more comprehensive • Toxicity • Training and performance assurance
understanding of risk-based management system
• The different types of Process Hazard Analysis, • Corrosivity • Management of Change (MOC)
best practices
including an introduction to HAZOP • Inherent safety • Operational readiness & pre-startup safety reviews
• An overview of OSHA’s PSM regulations and EPA’s Your Instructors (two of these): • Hazard identification and risk analysis • Conduct of operations
RMP regulations
Donald Abrahamson, Scott Berger, Jack Chosnek, • Hazard evaluation techniques • Emergency management and incident investigation
• How to incorporate Process Safety Management into James Conner, Steve Eason, Walter Frank, • Consequence and impact frequency • Measures, metrics and auditing compliance
Process Design and Plant Operations Alexandre Glitz, Dennis C. Hendershot, John Herber,
• Risk analysis • Management review and continuous improvement
• The concept of Layers of Protection to prevent and/or David Hill, Jerry Jones, B. Karthikeyan, Brian Kelly,
mitigate loss-of-containment events Ellen Lenz, Jack McCavit, Dan Miller, John Murphy, • Risk criteria • Additional EPA RMP regulations
• The principles of Risk Analysis and Risk Management Louisa Nara, Frank Renshaw, Robert Rosen, • Risk acceptance
Néstor Sposito, Byron Sun, Jenny Wang • Operating procedures
• How to consider Inherently Safer Processes during
plant design • Safe work practices
Please refer to index on p. 70 for all instructor bios.
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CCPS’ Overview of Risk-Based CCPS’ 20 Elements of Risk-Based Process Safety (RBPS)
PROCESS SAFETY
PROCESS SAFETY
GOT A GROUP TO TRAIN?
Process Safety
Bring AIChE Academy to you! Look for the
Train-a-Team link throughout the book
or visit www.aiche.org/trainateam
www.aiche.org/ch925 | Course ID: CH925

Available as Train-a-Team offering.
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam
www.aiche.org/ela120 | Course ID: ELA120
AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS Member Companies – $995
AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $497.50
This course will introduce you to CCPS’ Risk-Based
Process Safety (RBPS) approach, including the four pillars
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and twenty elements that define the structure of RBPS.
Developed especially for companies to train employees This online course will introduce you to the CCPS Risk- Who Should Attend:
in the basics of Risk-Based Process Safety, this course will Based Process Safety Management (RBPS) approach,
serve as an excellent starting point for the exploration of Those involved in designing, implementing and maintaining
described in the CCPS book Guidelines for Risk-Based
the steps and procedures involved in providing a safe a successful process safety management system in your
Process Safety. It covers the four pillars and twenty elements
operating environment. company, including:
that define the structure of the RBPS approach. The course
will help you design, implement, and maintain a risk- • Process safety specialists and process safety managers
You Will Learn:
based process safety management system that will fit your • Operations and plant managers
• The definition and importance of Risk-Based company’s needs and resources. • Engineers and supervisors
Process Safety (RBPS)
• The four pillars of RBPS: You will learn the definition and importance of RBPS and Your Instructors:
– Commit to Process Safety learn the four pillars of RBPS. Key principles and essential
This course was developed by 30 renowned Process Safety experts.
– Understand Hazards and Risk features for each of the twenty elements that make up the
Please visit www.aiche.org/ela120 for more info.
– Manage Risk pillars will be discussed.
– Learn from Experience
The four pillars are:
• The twenty elements of RBPS
– Commit to Process Safety
Who Should Attend: – Understand Hazards and Risk
– Manage Risk
Those involved in designing, implementing and maintaining – Learn from Experience
a successful process safety management system, including:
• Process safety specialists and process safety managers You Will Learn:
• Operations and plant managers • The importance of RBPS and how it fits into business
• Engineers and supervisors success
• The details of the twenty elements of RBPS
Your Instructor (one of these): • How to design, implement, and maintain an RBPS
Donald Abrahamson, Scott Berger, Charles Cowley, management system that fits the culture, needs and
Dennis Hendershot, Jerry Jones, John Herber, resources of your company, and that will meet the
John Murphy or Louisa Nara company’s process safety goals Register online at www.aiche.org/academy
or call 1-800-242-4363 (or 1-203-702-7660
outside the U.S.)
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CCPS’ Process Safety Management Overview CCPS’ The OSHA Regulatory CCPS’ OSHA Process Safety
PROCESS SAFETY
PROCESS SAFETY
Approach to Process Safety Management Review
Management

Available as Train-a-Team offering. AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam Member Companies – $395
www.aiche.org/els105 | Course ID: ELS105 AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $197.50
AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS Member Companies – $795 Non-Members – $695
AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $397.50 E
Your responsibility to protect workers and the environment Take this fundamental course and gain an introduction
E from hazardous chemicals requires thorough knowledge of to Process Safety Management. In just two short
the latest OSHA and EPA regulatory requirements. hours, you’ll learn how and when to apply the OSHA
This online course is an overview of the need for process Who Should Attend: standard (the Process Safety Management standard:
safety and the tools used to implement process safety Join process safety and risk management expert Don OSHA 1910.119) and see how it relates to the
Engineers and other technical professionals who play key Abrahamson for an up-to-date look at the OSHA PSM
management systems. It covers the U.S. OSHA PSM 14 Process Safety Management system developed by
roles in the management of their organizations’ process Regulation 29CFR 1910.119 and the EPA Prevention
regulatory requirements as well as the Center for the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS).
safety. Those who should attend include PHA team leaders Program process safety regulatory requirements. You’ll
Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) 20-element approach
and other professionals who must know how to select and leave with the knowledge you need to effectively implement, You Will Learn:
to process safety.
apply various PHA methods. evaluate and audit an OSHA or EPA process safety • The history behind the creation of the Occupational
Course attendees will learn about the history of management program in your organization.
Your Instructor: Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Process Safety
accidents leading up to the recognition that process
Management (PSM) standard
safety technology and education were needed. You will Adrian Sepeda In three days, you’ll gain new insight through lectures,
learn about the U.S. OSHA process safety regulatory discussions and problem-solving sessions. • Intent of the OSHA PSM standard
requirements and the Center for Chemical Process Safety • How and when and to apply the OSHA PSM standard
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(CCPS) approach to process safety management. You will You Will Learn: • How to write a PSM program plan
CPS
be instructed in the use of several of the more common An AIChE Technology Alliance
• Your regulatory obligations under OSHA PSM Standard • CCPS’ 14 Elements of Process Safety and how they relate
process safety management tools. 29CFR 1910.119 and EPA Prevention Program 40 CFR to the OSHA PSM standard
Chapter 1, Part 68
You Will Learn: Who Should Attend:
Center for Chemical Process Safety • Fulfilling PSM regulatory requirements in your workplace:
• Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)—several of the more what is needed and expected Engineers, supervisors and managers in the chemical
common methodologies The Center for Chemical Process Safety • OSHA’s 14 key PSM elements processing industries who are involved in chemical plant
• Management of Change (MOC)—perhaps the best way operations, process design, and process safety technology,
to control hazards
(CCPS) is a not-for-profit, corporate • EPA’s Risk Management Program Process Safety Regulation
and who need a basic understanding of the OSHA Process
• Mechanical Integrity vs. Reliability—regulatory membership organization within AIChE Who Should Attend: Safety Management standard.
requirements vs. what you really should do to keep your that identifies and addresses process safety New and experienced front-line engineers responsible
plant running safely Your Instructor:
for design, maintenance, manufacturing or supervision,
• Incident investigation—lessons learned and shared needs for a variety of facilities involved John Murphy
as well as managers and engineers involved in regulatory
• Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)—a system with handling, storing, using or processing, compliance.
management approach as well as an investigative
and transporting hazardous materials. Your Instructor:
technique
• Risk estimation Learn more at www.aiche.org/ccps Donald Abrahamson
Register online at www.aiche.org/academy
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CCPS’ What Every New Engineer Needs to Know About Process Safety CCPS’ Managing Process Safety Risks During Organizational Change
PROCESS SAFETY
PROCESS SAFETY
www.aiche.org/ela154 | Course ID: ELA154 www.aiche.org/ch525 | Course ID: CH525
AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS Member Companies – $295 Available as Train-a-Team offering.
AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $147.50 For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam
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Gain the process safety knowledge you need to be effective • How to identify several common means of modeling Organizational change is normal and inevitable as • Organizational hierarchy changes
in your career. In this online course, you’ll gain a broad hazards companies seek to become more profitable, increase market • Organizational policy changes
overview of what process safety is, why it is important, and • How to describe several methods for reducing the share, and reduce manufacturing costs. But when not
its applications in the process industries. likelihood of a loss-of-containment event properly evaluated and controlled, changes to equipment in The course focuses on effective utilization of the following
a facility can lead to serious incidents with potentially severe OCM risk analysis methods/tools for evaluating
Process safety is a top priority for any company operating Who Should Attend: consequences. And because the effects of organizational organizational changes:
in the chemical and allied industries, yet it doesn’t always change on process safety can be harder to see, it is less
Any young professional engineer just getting started in their • What-if analysis
receive the attention it should. Now you can understand commonly recognized than other types of change.
why process safety is vital and learn what important engineering career, especially in: Upstream, Midstream, • Checklist approach
questions you should be asking as you start your career as Refining, Chemicals, and Manufacturing. Acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures, new and revised • Bow tie method
a practicing engineer. Your Instructor: corporate policies and procedures, task allocation changes, • Activity mapping
changes in job responsibilities, loss of key personnel, or
Take this course and start to build your process safety Phillip R. Hodge even changes in shift hours can have an adverse impact You Will Learn:
knowledge base. You’ll learn key facets of fundamental on process safety. Because there is a tendency to focus on • Organizational change key concepts and definitions:
topics, including hazard identification, inherently safer managing physical changes, most Management of Change A selection of Organizational Change Management
design, mechanical integrity and emergency response (MOC) systems overlook or only superficially address (OCM)-related incidents
planning. And you’ll leave with a framework for deciding Organizational Change Management (OCM) and the
what additional areas of process safety you can learn about impact of organizational changes on process safety. • Corporate standards for OCM
as your career progresses. • How to conduct OCM risk assessment
This course provides an in-depth understanding of • Tools and techniques for analyzing organizational
You Will Learn: the framework for establishing OCM programs and changes
• How to describe the key elements of process safety implementing OCM procedures for different types of
changes. You’ll also learn effective utilization of OCM Who Should Attend:
• How to identify key concepts and terminology, and how
risk analysis methods/tools for evaluating organizational Process safety professionals and managers who play key
they apply to process safety
changes through illustrated case studies and lessons roles in evaluating and managing process safety risks
• How to locate other resources to help further your process learned, including:
safety education during organizational change.
• Modification of working conditions
• How to describe several means of identifying hazards Your Instructor:
• Personnel changes
• Task allocation changes Scott Berger, Umesh Dhake or Louisa Nara
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CCPS’ Senior Leaders & Process CCPS’ The Importance of Codes and Standards for Process Safety
PROCESS SAFETY
PROCESS SAFETY
Safety: The Role & The Opportunity AIChE Academy
Process Safety Curriculum
Chemical Engineering’s Go-To
Source for Process Safety Training
The AIChE Academy Process Safety
Curriculum was developed by a
team of experts to serve as a training
guide for Chemical Engineers. It is
designed to help guide learners based
www.aiche.org/ch902 | Course ID: CH902 on their job role. It employs both the
Available as Train-a-Team offering. CCPS 20 Elements of Risk Based Process
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam Safety framework and the AIChE Body www.aiche.org/ela155 | Course ID: ELA155
of Knowledge Personas (slightly adapted) AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS Member Companies – $395
to help users determine what courses or AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $197.50
other resources to take advantage of.
You are an executive or senior manager. Your company
has made major investments into process safety systems
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For more information or questions
such as Management of Change, Risk Identification and
Mechanical Integrity. It is important to examine the role you about the curriculum, please contact
Compliance with the Process Safety Management rule, • How to use API standards and develop a corporate
personally have in leading the organization to bottom-line academy@aiche.org. OSHA 1910.119, is a requirement for any plant processing standard to overlay on this document
process safety results—and the role that each of your reports highly hazardous materials exceeding threshold quantities.
should have. What are the routine activities where your • How to use an industry standard and develop a data
Now you can learn how existing industry standards can sheet for procurement of equipment
participation can make a difference? What questions and help you meet that requirement. This online course provides
areas of focus are appropriate for your position? • To understand the basics of a piping specification
an introduction to how industry standards and standards
organizations can be used to build a Process Safety • To outline the steps required to implement an addenda
This interactive course will examine the role that culture plays or deviation to a standard, and the rigorous process
Management (PSM) program that complies with the rule.
in catastrophic events, the critical role you have personally needed to approve this through the management of
in establishing culture, and what good culture for Process Take this course, and you’ll learn the elements of the rule change process
Safety looks like. that can be supported with existing industry standards. • To utilize concepts from this course to develop better
You Will Learn: You’ll learn how to build a hierarchy of documents, from teams for management of change and process hazard
industry standards to plant procedures, that address the analysis efforts
• Impacts of process safety failures rule’s requirements. You will also learn how benchmarking
• Critical cultural enablers and reaching out to other organizations can address areas Who Should Attend:
• Understanding threats to process safety where a specific standard does not exist. Anyone who works in an operating environment,
• The vital systems of prevention particularly one that uses hydrocarbons, can benefit from
You will understand how specific standards, such as this course. It is suitable for engineers in all disciplines and
• Assessing the health of organizational process safety mechanical integrity, must be implemented to meet sections career stages who would benefit from building a foundation
and the management toolset of the rule. You will get an overview of the documentation of knowledge about this critical subject, including
• Emergency preparedness requirements for compliance. And you’ll see how industry engineers working in: plant design, plant operations,
standards help assure compliance with Recognized standards implementation/compliance, senior plan
Who Should Attend: and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices leadership, and other technical and operating personnel.
Senior leaders in the petrochemical and petroleum (RAGAGEP). You’ll also look at examples of what results
production industries who have accountability for from lack of compliance. Your Instructor:
performance of manufacturing/production. Michael R. (Rick) Hoffman
You Will Learn:
Your Instructor: • How to evaluate a plant procedure against a requirement
Scott Berger or James Conner in the PSM rule to determine if it is acceptable
• How to determine whether plant documentation meets
the rule
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AIChE’s Combustible Dust Hazards: Flash Fires and Dust Explosions CCPS’ Incident Investigation CCPS’ Inherently Safer Design
PROCESS SAFETY
PROCESS SAFETY
www.aiche.org/ch850 | Course ID: CH850 www.aiche.org/ch800 | Course ID: CH800
Available as Train-a-Team offering. Available as Train-a-Team offering.
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam Accidents are significant events that trace their roots back Inherently safer product and process design (ISD) is a way
to management system failures. They often result from a to eliminate or significantly reduce hazards—rather than
single failure. That failure, however, may be a symptom of develop add-on protective systems and procedures. You’ll
deeper problems within the operation of a plant or facility. examine risk management layers of protection—inherent,
Only with a full understanding of what happened, how it passive, active and procedural—and how and why to build
Dust hazards and explosions are all too common Who Should Attend: happened and why it happened can effective remedial features from all categories into your program. By the end of
in the process safety industry and can lead to actions be taken. Join an incident investigation expert for the course, you’ll have the tools, resources and knowledge
Professionals concerned with the risks and vulnerabilities an in-depth look at the systematic process of examining and to build safety into any phase in the life cycle of a chemical
injuries, fatalities, property damage, business
associated with dust hazards and explosions—including: evaluating the causes of an incident. process and to eliminate or significantly minimize hazards to
interruption, and environmental pollution.
• Chemical engineers protect your people, the environment and your business.
Join combustible dust expert Dr. Erdem Ural for an • Mechanical engineers In three days, you will learn how to set up and manage
up-to-the-minute look at how to identify, respond to, an investigation, gain tools for evidence preservation You Will Learn:
• Process engineers/scientists
control and eliminate dust hazards while fulfilling and witness interviewing techniques, and examine causal • What is inherently safer design?
• Fire protection professionals analysis and ways to establish root cause(s).
your regulatory obligations as an employer.
• Plant, process safety, and risk managers • The history of ISD and lessons to be learned
In two days, you’ll learn how OSHA’s Combustible • Facility managers and all others who need to be You Will Learn: • Basic concepts and philosophy
Dust National Emphasis Program addresses aware of the risks and vulnerabilities in plants • Incident reporting • The process safety management hierarchy
dust explosions and fire hazards in facilities • Strategies for identifying inherently safer options
• Trend analysis and pattern recognition
and impacts how you handle powder and bulk Your Instructor:
• How to set up and staff a formal investigation • Tools and resources to help you implement ISD
materials, as well as fugitive dust in your plant. Erdem Ural
• How to conduct a root-cause analysis Who Should Attend:
You Will Learn: • Formal reporting and presentation
Professionals responsible for or involved in process
• How to spot dust explosion hazards hidden in many
Who Should Attend: development, design and operation, including:
workplaces
P rofessionals concerned with the risks associated with dust • Chemical engineers
• Tools to help you identify and assess the existence,
severity and consequences of a hazard hazards and explosions—including: • Mechanical engineers
• How to control and eliminate hazards • Chemical and mechanical engineers • Process engineers and scientists
• How to assess the adverse effects of protection and • Process engineers/scientists • Chemists
prevention systems GOT A GROUP TO TRAIN? • Fire protection professionals Your Instructor:
• Facility, process safety, and risk managers
Bring AIChE Academy to you! Look for the Dennis C. Hendershot
Train-a-Team link throughout the book Your Instructor:
or visit www.aiche.org/trainateam Scott Berger or Brian Kelly
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CCPS’ Recognizing Catastrophic CCPS’ Layer of Protection Analysis CCPS’ HAZOP Studies
PROCESS SAFETY
PROCESS SAFETY
Incident Warning Signs (LOPA)

Available as Train-a-Team offering. AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam Member Companies – $695
www.aiche.org/els104 | Course ID: ELS104
Non-Members – $995 AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS Member Companies – $795
E AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $397.50
Do you understand why you are having process safety This online course presents the Layer of Protection Analysis
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incidents, and what to do to prevent them and minimize (LOPA) methodology used worldwide in the process
their impact? What if you could predict that an incident was industries for simplified, rule-based risk analysis. The course
going to happen before it did? You can’t predict exactly covers the basic LOPA approach to selecting and analyzing This online course covers the concepts and techniques of • Application to procedure-based operations
when an incident will occur, but you can practice a higher potential incident scenarios. the Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Study methodology,
degree of situational awareness and key in on the incident • Batch-operation example
including related matters of preparation, team meeting
warning signs that occur before an incident—and then You will learn the finer points of topics such as enabling • Preparing for and leading HAZOP Study team reviews
facilitation and reporting. It includes worked examples and
act on the warning signs once you have identified them. conditions and conditional modifiers, as well as the • Updating and revalidating HAZOP Studies
references to additional resources.
logistical aspects of planning and executing a LOPA study,
This course will provide guidance and real-world experience including documentation and program management. Attendees will learn the anatomy of process safety incidents, Who Should Attend:
on how to recognize catastrophic incident warning signs. You’ll also gain CCPS guidance on initiating events, including process hazard analysis terminology, the basic T his course is not intended to replace full HAZOP team
Identifying these subtle indicators of weakness in existing independent protection layers, enabling conditions and HAZOP Study approach to developing potential incident leader (facilitator) training, but it is a good refresher for
business processes and safety programs is an excellent way conditional modifiers—including the likelihood of ignition. scenarios, the estimating of scenario risk as a means to anyone who has led HAZOP Studies, as well as for:
to drive continued improvement in your process safety. determine the adequacy of safeguards, the application of
You Will Learn: • HAZOP Study team members
You Will Learn: the HAZOP Study method to procedure-based operations,
• The basic principles of the LOPA approach • Coordinators of process safety management programs
and the logistical aspects of planning and executing a
• Introduction to incident warning signs • Selecting scenarios for analysis HAZOP Study team review. This course is the culmination of • Professionals responsible for addressing the findings and
• Leadership & cultural warning signs over 25 years of teaching and employing the HAZOP Study recommendations generated by HAZOP Study teams
• Executing each step of the LOPA method for scenario
• Physical warning signs risk analysis methodology in a variety of process industries, by the lead
Your Instructor:
contract author of CCPS’ Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation
• Asset integrity warning signs • Identifying and evaluating independent protection layers
Procedures, Third Edition, and the instructor of the AIChE Robert Johnson
• Analyzing risk and managing change warning signs • Understanding and applying enabling conditions and continuing education course on “HAZOP Studies and Other
conditional modifiers PHA Techniques for Process Safety and Risk Management.”
Who Should Attend: • Closing the risk gap
Engineers, supervisors, plant managers, operators and • Managing LOPA implementation, updates and follow-up You Will Learn:
technicians who work in the chemical process industries. • The anatomy of process safety incidents
Who Should Attend:
Your Instructor: • The HAZOP Study method for scenario development
Hazard evaluation teams, dedicated site or corporate • Continuous-process example
James Conner, Scott Berger, or Louisa Nara LOPA teams, and those who manage LOPAs, as
• Determining the adequacy of safeguards
well as expert analysts and safety teams.
• Developing findings and recommendations
Your Instructor: • Variations on the basic HAZOP Study method
Robert Johnson
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CCPS’ HAZOP Studies and Other PHA Techniques CCPS’ Advanced Concepts for Process Hazard Analysis
PROCESS SAFETY
PROCESS SAFETY
for Process Safety and Risk Management
SAVE $795 SAVE $795

or more when you take or more when you take
www.aiche.org/ch157 | Course ID: CH157 CH157 and CH754 together. www.aiche.org/ch754 | Course ID: CH754 CH754 and CH157 together.
Just register for course CH759: Just register for course CH759:
AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS Member Companies – $1,895 AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS Member Companies – $1,495
HAZOP Studies/Process Hazard Process Hazard Analysis/
Analysis Combo Course. HAZOP Studies Combo Course.
Non-Members – $2,195 Non-Members – $1,795
www.aiche.org/ch759 www.aiche.org/ch759
P P A laptop is required for this course.
Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) goes beyond merely You Will Learn: Safety demands a deep knowledge and application When you attend this course, you’ll also receive the CCPS
identifying whether a hazard exists. It involves of effective hazard analysis methods. In this highly book Guidelines for Initiating Events and Independent
• The anatomy of a process safety incident
understanding the negative impact of the hazard in the interactive course, you’ll have the opportunity to expand Protection Layers in Layer of Protection Analysis.
workplace and knowing how to eliminate it. Join hazard • Hazard review logistics—preparation, team leading, your basic understanding of process hazard analysis
risk/evaluation expert Robert Johnson as he addresses reporting and follow-up and will learn how to extend order-of-magnitude scenario You Will Learn:
how to prepare for, conduct and report an effective PHA • OSHA and EPA requirements for PHA risk calculations to other uses. Join Robert W. Johnson, • How to calculate action item importance measures
while complying with the latest regulations. Attend and • Tips for leading common PHA methods—including those take a detailed look at the HAZOP Study and other PHA
• How to determine the safety integrity levels for a
you’ll receive the CCPS book Guidelines for Hazard used for procedure-based operations methods, and engage in exercises that will give you
safety-instrumented system
Evaluation Procedures, 3rd Edition, which you can • The HAZOP Study: fundamental concepts and hands-on experience applying key concepts learned. You
refer back to on the job for a refresher of the effective may take this advanced course sequentially with CCPS’ • Strategies for reporting your study results
methodology
evaluation methods that process safety demands. HAZOP Studies and Other PHA Techniques for Process
• Tools and techniques for analyzing scenario risks and Who Should Attend:
Safety and Risk Management (CH157) or separately.
In three days, you’ll get up to date on your obligations determining the adequacy of safeguards Any engineer who conducts or is involved in process
under the OSHA PSM Rule and EPA RMP regulations. In two days, you’ll work with a team to learn and practice safety hazard analysis—including:
You’ll learn how to determine the adequacy of your Who Should Attend: the PHA techniques, including Layer of Protection Analysis
safeguards and report findings and recommendations. Engineers and other technical professionals who play key (LOPA), Safety Integrity Levels (SILs) determination and • Chemical engineers
You’ll examine various hazard evaluation methods, roles in the management of their organization’s process analysis of chemical reactivity hazards and security risks. • Mechanical engineers
including the HAZOP Study, and how to select the method safety. Those who should attend include PHA team leaders Using a spreadsheet provided during the course, you’ll • Process engineers
appropriate for your facility. The course concludes with a and other professionals who must know how to select and extend qualitative HAZOP Studies to evaluate order-of-
look at hazard evaluation of procedure-based operations apply various PHA methods. magnitude scenario risks, then examine the concept of • Process safety/risk managers
and PLC-controlled processes, how to conduct the final importance measures applied to PHAs and learn how • Facility managers
meeting and quality check, and reporting techniques. Your Instructor: to use a PHA to determine required SILs. You’ll conclude
the course by surveying the tools useful in PHAs for Your Instructor:
Robert Johnson
After three days, you’ll know how to select and apply evaluating fire, explosion and toxic release impacts. Robert Johnson
various PHA methods and will have the knowledge
and skills necessary to more effectively lead PHA teams
and manage process safety in your organization.
Please refer to index on p. 70 for all instructor bios.
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CCPS’ Process Safety CCPS’ Process Safety DIERS’ Basic Emergency Relief System Design
PROCESS SAFETY
PROCESS SAFETY
Management for Biodiesel Management for Bioethanol

AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS
Member Companies – $595 Member Companies – $595
Non-Members – $895 Non-Members – $895 AIChE Members – $1,895
E E AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $947.50
OSHA is closely monitoring the biodiesel industry. In this Process safety management is one of the most frequently
online course, you’ll learn how to improve your process cited hazards at ethanol plants by OSHA. In this online
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safety management and avoid the accidental release course, you’ll learn how to improve your process safety
of chemicals in your plant. You’ll get up to speed on the and avoid the unexpected release of toxic, reactive, or Take the first step toward becoming proficient in ERS • Conservative assumptions typically made to determine
standards and regulations impacting you as a biodiesel flammable liquids or gases in your processes involving design and evaluation. In three days, you’ll gain an the required load for pressure relief systems
producer. You’ll identify the components of a successful highly hazardous chemicals. You’ll gain a valuable introduction to pressure relief safety design with Design
process safety program and learn how to implement overview of the standards and regulations impacting you • Where to obtain resources and references to guide
Institute for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS) technology. further development as a skilled ERS engineer
them—including process hazard analysis, standard as a bioethanol producer. You’ll identify the components This course is recommended prior to taking DIERS’
operating procedures, safe work practices, mechanical of a successful process safety program and learn how • The first steps to becoming proficient in the complex field
Advanced Emergency Relief System Design. Together, the
integrity, management of change, auditing process safety to implement them—including process hazard analysis, of ERS design and evaluation
two DIERS courses form the basis of a solid fundamental
systems and emergency response procedures. Throughout standard operating procedures, safe work practices, understanding of pressure safety relief design.
the course, you’ll tackle and solve a variety of issues and mechanical integrity, management of change, auditing Who Should Attend:
compliance challenges unique to the biodiesel environment. process safety systems and emergency response The course includes coverage of DIERS liquid vapor This introductory course is designed to meet the needs
procedures. Throughout the course, you’ll tackle and solve disengagement technology, two-phase vapor liquid flow of engineers responsible for operating, designing or
You Will Learn: a variety of issues and compliance challenges unique to managing chemical processes that require overpressure
through relief systems, and techniques for reactive relief
• Preventing fires in your biodiesel plant the bioethanol environment. design. From state-of-the-art venting and flow technology relief devices. It will also be beneficial to engineers seeking
• Understanding methanol toxicity and sodium hydroxide to relief system piping, you’ll gain information that will more information about state-of-the-art venting and flow
You Will Learn: technology, as well as to those responsible for the safe
• Standards and regulations impacting biodiesel producers be invaluable whether you operate, design or manage
• Lessons from the Barton Solvents explosion chemical processes that require emergency overpressure handling of the effluent from an emergency relief device.
• The biodiesel process relief devices.
• Preventing fires in your ethanol plant
• Using foam for biodiesel Your Instructors (two of these):
• Understanding the flashpoint of ethanol You Will Learn:
• MSDS requirements Todd Brandes, Robert D’Alessandro, Rahul Raman,
• OSHA regulations impacting bioethanol producers
• An introduction to the broad topic of emergency relief Dan Smith
Who Should Attend: • Protecting your plant from dust explosions system design
Chemical engineers who work in the biodiesel industry • Staying on top of process safety with written checklists • How to achieve compliance with established codes,
and are responsible for, or involved in, process safety standards and design practices in the broad area of
management.
Who Should Attend:
emergency pressure relief and effluent containment
Chemical engineers who work in the bioethanol industry • How fluid flow models are used in pressure safety
and are responsible for, or involved in, process safety relief design
management.
• The requirements for relief system piping
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DIERS’ Advanced Emergency Relief System Design SAChE® Certificate Program
PROCESS SAFETY
PROCESS SAFETY
The SAChE® Certificate Program offers working engineers an easy way to access a selection of knowledge about
chemical process safety. Developed as a supplement to the undergraduate curriculum, these online courses also serve
as an excellent introduction or refresher to chemical process safety for working professionals. For more information,
visit www.aiche.org/academy and search “SAChE”.
ENGLISH Course may
Pricing for all SAChE Courses:
SPANISH be available
AIChE Members and Employees of CCPS Member Companies – $169 MANDARIN in these
AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – Free PORTUGUESE languages.
NEW! An Introduction to programs, laboratory safety inspections, personal protective

equipment and process area safety features and procedures.
Managing Process Safety Hazards It also covers Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems
www.aiche.org/ela953 | Course ID: ELA953 (DIERS) methods for characterizing runaway reactions,
www.aiche.org/ch173 | Course ID: CH173 equipment and methods for characterizing flammable dusts
EN Process safety is a vital part of everyday operations and vapors, and informal and formal safety reviews.
AIChE Members – $1,895
in chemical engineering. This course explains how
AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $947.50 SP
a system of process safety management can reduce
Non-Members – $2,195 MA the potential effects of process hazards. Students will NEW! Chemical Reactivity Hazards
be introduced to the risk-based process safety management www.aiche.org/ela962 | Course ID: ELA962
system developed by the Center for Chemical Process
OSHA has recognized Design Institute for Emergency Relief • To utilize real-world scenarios and to understand how Safety (CCPS), the world standard for this science. Lectures EN Today’s chemical engineers must be able to spot
Systems (DIERS) methods as good engineering practice for lack of knowledge on basic pressure relief systems cover how process safety compares to personal safety and potential hazards for uncontrolled chemical reactions.
SP
process safety management of highly hazardous materials. principles can have fatal consequences discusses historical events that have led to today’s process In this intermediate course, students will learn the
If you’re responsible for the safe handling of the effluent • The first steps to becoming proficient in the complex field safety regulations. Students will learn what a good process various types of chemical reactivity hazards and study
from relief systems, this course will teach you how to apply of ERS design and evaluation safety culture looks like and will explore a Management real-world examples of process safety incidents caused
the DIERS techniques for providing adequate pressure relief of Change (MOC) case study to understand how MOC by uncontrolled reactions. Gaining an understanding of
Follow-up work will be required to gain proficiency in the helps prevent accidents. In addition, the course will cover
for runaway reactions and other pressure-producing events. common situations where chemical hazards exist, students
application of this complex technology. The course texts and safeguards and how safety systems are actually used. will learn how to avoid unintended reactions as well as how
Applying DIERS technology in your facility extensive notes serve as study guides.
to control intended reactions. Students will discover how
Who Should Attend: to use compatibility matrix applications and will be able to
This advanced course covers the Design Institute for Basics of Laboratory Safety identify the correct methods to contain and control different
Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS) techniques for providing
Engineers responsible for operating, designing or managing www.aiche.org/ela909 | Course ID: ELA909 types of reactivity hazards.
adequate pressure relief for runaway reactions and other
chemical processes that require emergency overpressure
pressure-producing events that result in two-phase flow. Each
relief devices to ensure the safety of the facility in the event This course provides a complete review of safety for
participant receives the texts: Emergency Relief Systems EN Dust Explosion Control
of runaway reactions or other pressure-producing events. laboratories handling hazardous chemicals. It also
Design Using DIERS Technology (published by AIChE) and SP
Engineers who want to learn more about state-of-the-art covers the safe use of key related lab equipment. www.aiche.org/ela906 | Course ID: ELA906
Guidelines for Pressure Relief and Effluent Handling Systems
venting and flow technology. Those responsible for the safe While the discussion is aimed at laboratory scale, it
(published by CCPS and includes CCflow computer routines
handling of the effluent from an emergency relief device will introduces wider process safety management concepts Dust explosions continue to occur in the chemical
available by download). EN
find this course invaluable. such as toxicity and toxic levels, flammability, use of safety industry, killing workers, injuring others, and
SP
You Will Learn: data sheets, job safety analysis, bio-safety levels, and fire damaging industrial facilities. The U.S. Chemical
Prerequisites: and explosion prevention. Lab-specific subjects such as Safety Board has made recommendations for preventing
• The broad topic of emergency relief systems design,
The course assumes that the attendees have thorough inspections, personal protective equipment, hazardous dust explosions. In this session, you’ll learn what those
with an emphasis on DIERS methodology
understanding and real-world experience working with the material storage, and waste disposal are also fully covered. recommendations are and how they must be applied to
• How to achieve compliance with established codes, basic chemical engineering principles of reaction kinetics, minimize and control the hazards related to dust explosions.
standards and design practices in the broad area of fluid flow, thermodynamics, heat transfer, mass transfer, and
emergency pressure relief and effluent containment heat and material balances. Further, some application of Chemical Process Safety
• The application of the DIERS technology for data these disciplines in basic emergency relief systems design in the Chemical Process Industries
acquisition and two-phase venting calculations for the or evaluation is expected. We recommend taking CH172 www.aiche.org/ela901 | Course ID: ELA901
severe case of runaway chemical reactions prior to attending.
• Available computational models and computer programs Get a solid introduction to the application of chemical
through demonstrations and worked example Your Instructors (two of these): EN
process safety technology in an actual chemical
Robert D’Alessandro, William Ciolek, Benjamin McDavid, facility. This course covers the concepts of corporate safety
Theodore Nelson
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SAChE® Certificate Program (cont’d) SAChE® Certificate Program (cont’d)
PROCESS SAFETY
PROCESS SAFETY
NEW! Fire Hazards NEW! Hazards and Risk: Nitrogen’s Role in Safety NEW! The Importance of Process Safety
www.aiche.org/ela963 | Course ID: ELA963 Introduction to Pressure Protection www.aiche.org/ela910 | Course ID: ELA910 www.aiche.org/ela950 | Course ID: ELA950
EN Uncontrolled fire can have devastating consequences EN This course focuses on nitrogen, which is a staple Process safety is an increasingly critical aspect of
EN
in an industrial setting. Thus, anyone working in a Pressure that gets out of control has been the cause of SP of the chemical industry. Because it is an inert gas, chemical engineering. This course, taught in three
SP EN
process industry should be aware of potential fire many of the most devastating incidents in the history nitrogen is suitable for a wide range of applications interactive learning units, serves as the perfect introduction
MA
hazards. In this intermediate course, students will study real of chemical processing. The science of overpressure and covering various aspects of chemical manufacturing, to its principles. Students will learn how process safety
incidents of fires in process industries, learn to evaluate POR processing, handling, and shipping. Nitrogen is an is defined and how it relates to the AIChE Code of
its prevention and mitigation impact nearly all elements of
fire risks and impacts, and discover how to prevent and process safety management. Engineers working in process excellent blanketing that enables the safe storage and use Professional Ethics. After exploring the Four Pillars of
control fires. By taking an in-depth look at different types safety need to have a fundamental knowledge of pressure of flammable compounds and can help prevent combustible Risk-Based Process Safety, they’ll review case studies to
of fires (including beneficial applications), learning the relief concepts, even if they are never involved in the dust explosions. It is, however, a significant asphyxiant, and understand how process safety functions in the real world.
necessary conditions for fires to develop, and assessing the actual design of pressure relief. This course will provide safety principles must be employed in its handling and use. Students will emerge from this course with a solid process
flammability of various materials and fuels, this course will that knowledge in an orderly progression, with concepts safety foundation that will be important both for the rest of
equip students to spot and control fire hazards in a range of illustrated by numerous case studies. This two-part lesson will introduce the main safety aspects their SAChE certification training and for their futures in
process industries. Students will be able to assess the impact of nitrogen, first as a safeguard and then as a potential chemical engineering.
of fire on people and equipment and suggest fire prevention Students will be introduced to the nature of overpressure hazard.
and mitigation measures for different hazard situations. and the types of scenarios that can cause it in chemical NEW! Toxicological Hazards
processing. Students will then learn the types of devices Process Safety Lessons www.aiche.org/ela961 | Course ID: ELA961
NEW! Hazard Recognition available to provide pressure relief, as well as discuss the
Taught from Experience
types of information needed to size relief for the various
www.aiche.org/ela951 | Course ID: ELA951 scenarios discussed. Finally, the course will present an www.aiche.org/ela908 | Course ID: ELA908 EN
Toxicology is the quantitative and qualitative study
overview of the basic approaches to safely mitigating the of the effects of toxicants on biological organisms.
EN Knowing what to do in chemical engineering starts discharges from relieved pressure. Examine important case histories related to process This intermediate course explains key concepts related
with recognizing hazards. This introductory course EN to toxicological hazards. Students will be introduced to
SP safety—including Bhopal, Seveso, examples of
will expand students’ knowledge of hazards found in tank failures and T2—and how to use lessons learned to vocabulary used to describe specific toxic effects, as well
MA chemical plants and other similar industrial operations NEW! Identifying & Minimizing avoid similar mistakes. This course can be used in safety as to resources available to characterize the hazardous
where chemical engineers are employed. Students will learn Process Safety Hazards orientations at industrial facilities. properties of chemicals. This course also covers how
how to recognize common types of hazards they might toxicants can enter biological organisms and how this
encounter, as well as to understand what these hazards www.aiche.org/ela952 | Course ID: ELA952 information is used in the prevention and detection of toxic
mean in the overall system. Students will also learn to Risk Assessment exposure. Finally, this course also lays the groundwork
recognize conditions that may increase the severity of EN When working with potentially hazardous materials, for other Level 2 courses by explaining how to calculate,
it’s important to have the right tools to handle them. www.aiche.org/ela903 | Course ID: ELA903
these hazards. SP estimate and communicate the values of airborne chemical
This introductory course reviews the tools with which concentrations in several release scenarios.
MA students will need to be familiar in order to identify, Explore the latest methods for detecting, preventing
EN
NEW! Hazards and Risk: minimize and manage process hazards. Students will and mitigating risks in plants. In this course, you’ll
What Can Go Wrong? explore what “inherently safer design” means and will learn learn how methods of risk assessment, management and NEW! Understanding Hazards & Risk
about consequence and risk. Additionally, this course takes reduction are related and how to ensure they function
www.aiche.org/ela970 | Course ID: ELA970 together successfully in your operation. You’ll learn how to www.aiche.org/ela969 | Course ID: ELA969
hazards into the real world with the introduction of initiators
and a case study of an accident. assess the health effects of risks, perform a what-if analysis,
In chemical processing, understanding how adverse and plan and implement a Hazard and Operability EN Designed for juniors and seniors who are enrolled
EN in upper-level chemical engineering classes, this
incidents can arise is an essential component of (HAZOP) Study. You’ll delve into screening analysis SP
effective process safety management. This intermediate NEW! Inherently Safer Design techniques, checklist reviews, fault tree and event tree course explores the most technical of the four pillars
course is the first of a group directed at the management analysis, preliminary hazards analysis and chemical plume of Risk-Based Process Safety (RBPS): “Understand Hazards
www.aiche.org/ela984 | Course ID: ELA984 and Risk.” Part one, Process Knowledge Management,
of hazards and risk. Students will examine the concepts and dispersion analysis.
of hazards, consequences and risk and will learn how details the most important elements of process knowledge,
Inherently Safer Design (ISD) takes a proactive and how to manage it and measure its effectiveness. Part
physical conditions and material properties can present EN
approach to process safety, aiming to prevent Runaway Reactions two explores the major techniques and tools associated
hazards in a process. Finally, students will discuss how hazards from entering manufacturing processes rather than
failures in selected equipment categories and deficient www.aiche.org/ela902 | Course ID: ELA902 with Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA). This
merely to manage them. Students who take this advanced lecture will illustrate how the various HIRA tools are used to
performance in management systems and procedures course will come to understand ISD as a way of thinking
can allow hazards to evolve into adverse incidents. Before you can handle chemical reactions safely, discover potential hazards, and how these tools fit into the
rather than a specific tool. The course covers all aspects of EN overall RBPS system. By focusing on understanding hazards
ISD, from basic concepts and approaches to challenges in you must first understand them. In this course, you’ll
Using case studies, the course will introduce students to identify potential runaway reactions and gain tools for and risk, students will gain important knowledge about how
practical application. to prevent catastrophic incidents.
the thought process safety practitioners use to anticipate sizing relief systems to safely control and contain them.
hazardous situations when participating in hazard Students will learn to evaluate hazard reduction and ISD
identification and risk assessment activities. This course principles as well as to use the Management of Change
positions students to better appreciate the courses that (MOC) PSM element to incorporate and maintain ISD
immediately follow in sequence, which will describe the changes in proposed process changes. Last, students
tools available to manage hazards and risks after they taking this course will acquire knowledge of which ISD
are identified and understood. approaches may be most effective at different stages of a
process life cycle.
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AIChE’s Crystallization AIChE’s Crystallization Process AIChE’s Flow of Solids in Bins, Hoppers, Chutes and Feeders
CHEMICALS + MATERIALS
Operations Development

Available as Train-a-Team offering. AIChE Members – $695 SAVE $795
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $347.50 or more when you take
www.aiche.org/ch032 | Course ID: CH032 CH032 and CH033 together.
ALSO
AIChE Members – $1,495 AVAILABLE Just register for course CH757:
E Flow of Solids/Pneumatic
Conveying Combo Course.
Non-Members – $1,795 ELS102
www.aiche.org/ch757
Crystallization can be a powerful separation tool This online course provides an in-depth overview of an
in a broad range of industries. But to optimize integrative approach for crystallization development—
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it, you must clearly understand the process. Join using models to analyze the SLE behavior of the system,
crystallization expert Wayne Genck for a practical validating the model using relevant experimental data, and Too often, bulk solids are being handled without a • Solving ongoing bulk solids feeder problems
overview of the basics of crystallization, precipitation, systematically synthesizing a crystallization process based good understanding of how to correctly design, select,
and how to apply the fundamentals of crystal on the solid-liquid equilibrium (SLE) behavior. Starting • Why fine powders can have restricted or uncontrolled
troubleshoot, maintain and purchase bulk solids handling flow rate
growth and nucleation to industrial processes. with fundamental issues such as solubility and physical equipment. As a result, costly flow problems occur that slow
properties, we will discuss the relevant theories, methods, • Step-by-step procedures for designing a bin or silo
production. In this course, you’ll learn proven design and
In two days, you’ll learn about the theory of material, experimental techniques, and design methods that have • Practical solutions to segregation mechanism problems
troubleshooting principles for handling bulk solids in bins,
energy and population balances and how to apply it been used in many industrial applications for developing hoppers, feeders and transfer chutes for safe and trouble- • Selecting the appropriate common flow-aid device
in the production of amorphous and crystalline materials. an optimum crystallization process. Various examples will free plant operation. • How to avoid transfer chute plugging and how to
You’ll also explore how to develop methods for scaling be provided throughout the course.
up crystallizers and precipitators. minimize wear and dusting
In two days, you’ll review the fundamentals of bulk material
You Will Learn:
You Will Learn: flow and examine common flow problems, types of flow Who Should Attend:
Participants will learn about the solid-liquid equilibrium patterns in equipment and how flow properties of bulk
• To understand polymorphs and cocrystals Those involved in designing, selecting, troubleshooting,
(SLE) phase diagram and its usage in synthesizing solids are measured. You’ll study feeder design, learn
maintaining or purchasing bulk solids handling
• Crystal size distribution crystallization processes, systematic methods for generating proven troubleshooting techniques and gain insight into
equipment—including:
• Crystal purity and the effects of additives and evaluating crystallization process alternatives using flow problems that occur when handling fine powders. The
SLE phase diagrams, and calculation and experimental instructor also covers common mechanisms of segregation • Plant and project managers
• Batch and industrial crystallizers
methods for generating SLE phase diagrams. and solutions to these costly problems and gives practical • Operation and process managers
• The mixed-suspension, mixed-product removal crystallizer advice for using flow-aid devices. • Project, process and maintenance engineers
Who Should Attend:
Who Should Attend: • Unit operators and superintendents
• Chemists and engineers engaged in the development of Throughout the course, real-life industrial case histories will
cientists and engineers who are required to understand,
S illustrate the complex concepts you’ll learn. In addition, • Anyone new to the field of bulk solids handling
processes or operations that involve crystallization
optimize and control crystallization processes, especially workshops help increase your understanding.
• Process engineers interested in learning about logical and Your Instructor:
those who are:
systematic approaches for synthesizing and developing You Will Learn:
• Engaged in the process development, engineering or Eric Maynard, Herman Purutyan, Thomas Troxel or
crystallization processes
operation of organic or inorganic crystallization processes • The pitfalls of poor bulk solids handling Andres Orlando
• Responsible for solving challenges associated with Your Instructor: • Common flow problems and their costly consequences
separations involving crystallization Christianto Wibowo • The flow patterns and features of silos, bins and hoppers
• Testing bulk solids flow properties and how to use
Your Instructor:
the results
Wayne Genck
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AIChE’s Flow of Solids in Bins, AIChE’s Pneumatic Conveying of Bulk Solids
Hoppers, Chutes and Feeders
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E ALSO Pneumatic Conveying/
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This online course provides a fundamental AS Non-Members – $1,395 ELA111
www.aiche.org/ch757
grounding in the key areas of bulk CH032 P
solids handling equipment selection,
design, and troubleshooting. Strategies
for alleviating costly flow problems in silos, bins, Although many pneumatic conveying equipment advances • The four primary system components: Gas mover,
hoppers, feeders, and transfer chutes are presented, have been made, costly problems—including wear, attrition, silo/feeder, pipeline/bends and separator
as well as proven techniques to design solids handling rate limitation and line plugging—continue to occur. • How to select elbows, line chargers and other key
equipment to operate efficiently, safely, and reliably. Learn how to apply practical design and troubleshooting primary system components
principles to improve the efficiency, safety and reliability
The lectures are supplemented with practical examples • To know the features of solid separators—cyclones,
of pneumatic conveying systems transporting powders and
and actual industrial case histories to illustrate the complex filter/collectors and bag houses
bulk solids.
concepts taught. • Dense phase conveying technology—what you need
In one day, you’ll review the fundamentals of gas-solids to know
You Will Learn:
flow and address common pneumatic conveying problems, • Troubleshooting common conveying problems—including
• Bulk solids handling fundamentals modes of transport in a pipeline, and scale-model tests wear, attrition, rate limitation and line plugging
• Flow patterns in bins and hoppers and their use in systems design and evaluation of poorly • Applying safe handling practices for the pneumatic
• Flow properties and their application to design/ operating systems. You’ll discuss line chargers (feeders), conveying of combustible solids
troubleshooting proven pipeline layout rules, and criteria for elbow/bend
selection. The instructor will also cover more specialized Who Should Attend:
• Fine powder handling phenomena topics, including dense phase conveying systems and gas-
• Common segregation mechanisms for powders and solids Engineers involved in designing, selecting, troubleshooting,
solids separators such as cyclones, filters and bag houses.
maintaining or purchasing pneumatic conveying
• Proven solutions with segregation for powders and solids Real-life industrial case histories will help increase your
equipment—including:
understanding of the theory and application taught.
Who Should Attend: • Plant and project managers
You Will Learn: • Operation and process managers
Those involved with designing, troubleshooting, maintaining,
or purchasing bulk solids handling equipment: • Modes of conveying: dilute phase and dense phase • Project, process and maintenance engineers
• Plant and project managers • Types of systems: positive pressure, vacuum, pull/push • Unit operators and superintendents
• Operation or process managers and closed loop • Professionals new to the field of pneumatic conveying
• Project and maintenance engineers • The science underlying gas and solids flow through
pipelines Your Instructor:
• Personnel new to the field of bulk solids handling
• To understand key terms—like “saltation and pickup Eric Maynard, Herman Purutyan, Thomas Troxel or
Your Instructor: velocity” and “solids loading ratio” Andres Orlando
Eric Maynard • How to read a state diagram illustrating system
performance
44 45
AIChE’s Pneumatic AIChE’s Particle and Bulk Solids AIChE’s Particle Technology
Conveying of Bulk Solids Characterization Technology

AIChE Members – $595 Available as Train-a-Team offering.
E ALSO AIChE Members – $895
AVAILABLE AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $447.50
Although many pneumatic conveying AS Given the wide range of technologies available today Non-Members – $1,195
equipment advances have been made, CH033 for powder and particle characterization, selecting the E
costly problems—including wear, attrition, best option for an application is not easy. Join particle
rate limitation and line plugging—continue characterization and technology experts Remi Trottier and
to occur. This online course will help you learn how to apply Karl V. Jacob to gain a solid understanding of the basics The importance of knowledge of the science of Who Should Attend:
practical design and troubleshooting principles to improve of particle and bulk solids characterization necessary to particulate materials to the process industries cannot be
the efficiency, safety and reliability of pneumatic conveying properly select instruments and validate data, and for a E ngineers and scientists in process industries where
overemphasized. Very often, difficulties in the handling
systems transporting powders and bulk solids. look at the latest commercially available technologies. particulate solids are handled and processed, including:
or processing of powders are ignored or overlooked
at the design stage, with the result that powder-related • Those in the pharmaceutical, chemical and mineral
In this course, you will review the fundamentals of gas- In two days, you’ll gain characterization and data problems are the cause of an inordinate number of processing industries
solids flow and address common pneumatic conveying interpretation skills to better control particulates, particulate production stoppages. • Those new to working with powders
problems, modes of transport in a pipeline and scale- formulation, suspensions and dispersions.
model tests and their use in systems design and evaluation This online course is intended as an introduction to particle Your Instructor:
of poorly operating systems. You’ll discuss line chargers You Will Learn:
technology. The topics included have been selected to give Martin Rhodes
(feeders), proven pipeline layout rules and criteria for • Instrument evaluation and proper selection coverage of the broad areas of particle technology: particle
elbow/bend selection. size analysis, packed and fluidized beds, storage and
• Particle size and bulk powder data interpretation
• Ensemble and fractionation methods transport (hopper design, pneumatic conveying, standpipes,
You Will Learn:
slurry flow), separation (filtration and gas cyclones), and
• Modes of conveying: dilute phase and dense phase • Single particle counting methods safety (fire and explosion hazards, health hazards).
• Types of systems: positive pressure, vacuum, pull/push • Measurement of bulk powder properties
and closed loop • Method development and validation You Will Learn:
• To understand key terms—like “saltation and pickup • Particle technology in the process industries
Who Should Attend:
velocity” and “solids loading ratio” • Single particles in fluids
• The four primary system components: gas mover, Scientists and engineers with little or no knowledge of • Particle size measurement
silo/feeder, pipeline/bends and separator particle and bulk solids characterization technology—
including: • Flow of fluids through packed beds of particles
• Dense phase conveying technology • Fluidization
• Plant engineers
Who Should Attend: • Project engineers • Pneumatic transport of powders
Industrial plant operations and maintenance workers • Project managers

who need to have practical methods for identifying and
managing physical and process hazards. Your Instructors:
Karl V. Jacob and Remi Trottier
Your Instructor:
Eric Maynard
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SBE’s Biomanufacturing for Chemical Engineers SBE’s Bioseparations: Principles, Applications and Scale-Up
BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
AIChE and SBE Members – $995 Available as Train-a-Team offering.
AIChE and SBE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $497.50 For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam
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Delve into the fundamentals of biomanufacturing. You’ll Who Should Attend: Gain a solid understanding of the principles, applications
focus on the unit operations utilized to manufacture and scale-up of bioseparation processes and learn how to
Any chemical engineer working in a design, operations,
biological drug products. After an overview of product apply them to your day-to-day work. In two days, you’ll learn
or support function within a biopharmaceutical or
types, processes, and current Good Manufacturing the most important unit operations in industrial bioseparation
vaccine company.
Practice, you’ll address the maintenance of cell lines processes and how to avoid mistakes when analyzing and
and growth of cells in a bioreactor. Topics such as mass Your Instructor: interpreting bioseparation data. You’ll find out how to select
transfer, process control, and product expression are appropriate bioseparation equipment and techniques for
emphasized. In the second half of the course, lectures This course was developed in conjunction with the successful scale-up. Plus, you’ll cover other relevant topics,
focus on downstream unit operations that harvest cells, Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC) from filtration and extraction to chromatography, adsorption
remove byproducts or contaminants, and fill the final bulk at NC State. and drying.
product.
You Will Learn: The Society for Biological Engineering
You Will Learn: • The basic science and mechanisms of various types of (SBE) is an AIChE Technological
• How biopharmaceutical production is regulated bioseparations
Community, leading engineers and
• Cryopreservation Hear what companies are saying • Assaying the biological activity and purity of bioproducts:
• Basics of metabolism and nutrition requirements how to identify and select the right laboratory methods scientists dedicated to advancing the
about AIChE’s Train-a-Team.
• Cell growth for industrial production • How to perform engineering analyses of bioseparation integration of biology with engineering.
• Centrifuge process and performance parameters www.aiche.org/trainateam processes
• Stages of a process for production of a
SBE is committed to promoting the
Who Should Attend:
biopharmaceutical, including objectives of and
E ngineers and scientists who need a better understanding
integration of biology with engineering
equipment used for each stage
of the bioseparation processes. It will be especially valuable and realize its benefits through
• GMP and key requirements if you’re in these industries:
• Common chromatography techniques used in bioprocessing, biomedical and
• Pharmaceutical
biomanufacturing and the protein property biomolecular applications.
• Biotechnology
exploited in each
• Food Learn more and join at
• Techniques used to protect product from microbial
contamination during bulk filling Your Instructor: www.aiche.org/sbe
Roger Harrison
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SBE’s Biotechnology for Chemical Engineers IfS’ Product Stewardship
SUSTAINABILITY + ENVIRONMENT
www.aiche.org/ela102 | Course ID: ELA102 AIChE and IfS Members – $695
AIChE and IfS Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $347.50
AIChE and SBE Members – $995 Non-Members – $995
AIChE and SBE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $497.50
Non-Members – $1,295 E
E Gain new insight into the practice of product stewardship • How governments try to minimize risk and cost/benefit
from the perspective of chemical product manufacturers. considerations
Learn the fundamentals of biotechnology with this course Who Should Attend: • What “green” or “safe” product claims entail, and
You’ll learn the concepts and principles underlying product standards for making claims
designed for chemical engineers working in design, stewardship as well as the roles and responsibilities through
Any chemical engineer working in design, operations,
operations, or other support functions. each stage of the life cycle. Examine how products are • The value chain/supply chain in product stewardship
or a support function who wants a deeper understanding
of the fundamentals of biotechnology processes. developed, produced and managed to minimize the risks • How business customers influence product stewardship
This online course focuses on the methods used to develop
to health and the environment while maximizing value • Voluntary and not-so-voluntary standards
cell lines to produce a variety of biological drug products.
Your Instructor: to customers. • Ethical challenges that go beyond compliance
It begins by presenting an overview of microorganisms,
other cells, and identification techniques commonly used. This course was developed in conjunction with the Delve into the importance of understanding and engaging • Components of a product stewardship program for
These concepts are then used to introduce the methods Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC) all stakeholders, managing product stewardship as a a chemical company using ACC Responsible Care®
used for cell line development, metabolic engineering, at NC State. company, and individual roles and responsibilities. Address Product Safety Code
and several “omics” tools. The final session focuses on product life cycle thinking perspectives, risk characterization • Challenges for product stewardship
expression and purification of biological drug products, and risk management, and the necessity of compliance.
monitoring cell growth and product expression, and Define what is “green” and consider how business-to- Who Should Attend:
fermentation/cell culture. business interactions influence product stewardship. • Professional product stewards and environmental
You Will Learn: health and safety specialists
While this course is relevant to all products and their
• Survey of microorganisms and cells life cycles (because all products contain chemicals), it • Researchers
• Microbial and cell identification by morphology, is especially valuable to those directly involved as raw • Process engineers and operations supervisors
physiology and genome sequencing material suppliers, manufacturers, users or disposers • Product managers
affected by a product and its associated processes. It is also • Marketers
• Overview of biological drug products
NOT A MEMBER? relevant for those who influence a product’s environmental
• Basic genetic engineering of microorganisms for and health risk management. • Regulatory and legal specialists
cell line development Belong to AIChE, the global home • Purchasers
• Metabolic engineering and use of “omics” of chemical engineers. You Will Learn: • Environmental and human health scientists
• Expression and purification of biological drug products • Drivers for product stewardship • Business managers
• Monitoring cell growth and product expression AIChE Members always pay the lowest • Meaning and sources of “risk” and risk perception • Government regulators
• Basic concepts of fermentation and cell culture price for education offerings. • How risk reduction and management can be achieved • NGOs (non-governmental organizations)
• Compliance’s role at setting a minimum for product
Learn more at www.aiche.org/join stewardship Your Instructor:
• Broad range of potential legal requirements Georjean Adams
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IfS’ Supply and Value Chain IfS’ Essentials of Environmental Life Cycle Assessment
Management for Engineers
The Institute for Sustainability (IfS) is

an AIChE Technological Community,
serving the needs of and influencing
the efforts of professionals, academes,
industries, and governmental bodies
that contribute to the advancement
of sustainability and sustainable
www.aiche.org/ela133 | Course ID: ELA133 development. www.aiche.org/ela141 | Course ID: ELA141
AIChE and IfS Members – $695 Learn more and join at AIChE and IfS Members – $695
AIChE and IfS Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $347.50 www.aiche.org/ifs AIChE and IfS Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $347.50
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Explore key supply chain management principles, Improve the environmental profile of your company’s • Goal and scope definition—properly defining the goal
strategies, risks and opportunities that you may be products and processes using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). of an LCA
expected to know in your production, manufacturing or • Life cycle inventory—different methodological
management role. In today’s world, more and more companies recognize their approaches
environmental responsibilities run from “cradle to grave.”
Sustainability expert Jeffrey Seay begins with an overview Understanding how your company’s products measure up • Impact assessment and the details of impact modeling
of what a supply chain is, how it works, the importance requires new tools for looking at environmental impacts • Interpretation and reporting—how to analyze, interpret
of matching supply and demand, and stumbling blocks across the production process. and report LCA results while maintaining transparency
within the supply chain that you should keep on your radar. • Global application of LCA as an environmental
You’ll also address supply chain management—its different Now you can get up to date on the latest advancements management tool and for assessing environmental impact
features and principles, key issues that drive sustainability, in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a powerful and evolving • Sustainability assessment—how to bring these tools
and customer/supplier relationships. toolset for managing environmental impacts and together in a comprehensive decision-making process
sustainability. In this online course, taught by a leading
You Will Learn: expert in sustainability, you’ll explore the role that life cycle Who Should Attend:
• How to identify the components of a supply chain information in the hands of companies, governments and
consumers may have in improving the environmental impact Attend this course if you’re interested in gaining a fuller
• How to examine the key features of supply chain of consumer products and the industrial processes behind understanding of Life Cycle Assessment and how it applies
management them. This eight-unit course provides an overview that will to your situation. Anyone charged with implementing or
• The linkages between supply and demand help any attendee better understand how LCA is conducted overseeing an LCA for their products and processes should
• How to identify the key issues for sustainable supply and the impact it can have. Government policymakers will attend, including:
chain management learn how to make environmentally driven policies at the • Product manufacturers
• The risk and opportunities found within the supply chain local, state and national levels. Product manufacturers will • Engineers and managers
discover how to advance sustainability. University students • Government policymakers
• How supply chain management is linked with
will identify environmental assessment tools. And members
sustainability • NGOs (non-governmental organizations) members
of NGOs and consumer protection groups will learn how to
promote proper environmental product labeling. • Members of consumer protection groups
Who Should Attend:
• Production You Will Learn: Your Instructor:
• Manufacturing • Overview of life cycle—the concept behind the Mary Ann Curran
• Management methodology, the history of its development, and ISO
standards that provide the LCA framework
Your Instructor: • Life cycle thinking—the series of activities a product is
Jeffrey Seay associated with along its life cycle
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AIChE’s Professional Ethics & AIChE’s Intellectual Property for AIChE’s Six Sigma: A Practical Overview
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Excellence for Chemical Engineers Chemical Engineers
www.aiche.org/ela127 | Course ID: ELA127 www.aiche.org/els107 | Course ID: ELS107

Non-Members – $695 Non-Members – $1,195
E E AIChE Members – $695
As a chemical engineer, your actions affect the health, Protecting intellectual property is increasingly important to
safety and welfare of society. That means your ethical engineers and the firms they work with. Yet many engineers
E
conduct as a professional is of the utmost importance. In do not understand the complexities of the America Invents
this online course, you’ll gain an introduction to key issues Act (AIA), or what patent legislation means in practice. Six Sigma is successfully practiced throughout the chemical • Utilize an effective process to identify root causes
in engineering ethics while you prepare to confront and engineering industry for improvement, organization and
In this online course, you’ll get the most current information and their impact on the problem
resolve the inevitable ethical dilemmas you’ll encounter problem-solving. In this course, you’ll learn how to apply the
in your career. regarding the new U.S. Patent laws and learn how to work • Identify risk management tools used to predict and
tools and methodologies of Six Sigma, Lean and Change prevent failures
with them to protect the technologies, processes or products
You Will Learn: Management in ways that are important to you as a
you are developing. By enrolling in this course, you will be • Describe strategies to align with stakeholders important
chemical engineer in today’s world.
• The basis for codes of engineering ethics, and exposed to numerous basic patent laws and corresponding to your project and career
their limitations strategy, including: AIA practices and regulations, This course is about getting better at processes, roles, • Identify which roles are needed in the Six Sigma
intellectual property laws, and principles such as patents, metrics and operations. You’ll learn how to drive change project team
• Main principles underlying most codes of trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks.
engineering ethics effectively and stay close to your stakeholders and • Describe how to identify and maintain sponsorship
• Understanding ethics in terms of human interactions You Will Learn: customers. You’ll explore risk management and how to of the initiative
ensure your outcomes are achieved and supported by
• The many needs met through work • The first-to-file system stakeholders. In addition, you’ll gain a better understanding Who Should Attend:
• Key principle for handling all human interactions • Providing types of prior art to invalidate patents of the people dynamics of teams and learn how to improve Project leaders, engineers who lead groups, change
• Ways to enhance your experience of work—and • Providing many ways to challenge patents, both your team adoption efforts and team effectiveness. agents, risk managers, and leaders in operational
that of the people around you pre- and post-grant excellence, continuous improvement, quality control
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to write a simplified and team effectiveness.
Who Should Attend: • Providing defenses to patent infringement project charter and high-level process map, and to use an
Who Should Attend: effective process to develop a deeper understanding of Your Instructor:
Engineers and managers across all sectors who want to
root causes and their impact on a problem. You’ll also be
better understand engineering ethics and develop the skills Engineers involved in R&D and/or IP development/ Janet Hammill
equipped with risk management tools to predict and prevent
that lead to professional excellence. Whether you’re new management may find this course particularly useful. failures and align better with stakeholders important to your
to engineering or a seasoned veteran, you’ll gain insight
project and career.
and tools you can immediately put into practice in your Your Instructor:
workplace to raise the ethics bar and achieve the highest After taking this course, you will be able to:
professional standards in engineering. Heath Briggs
• Describe the 8 basic components of Lean, Six Sigma
Your Instructor: and Change Management
Alan Rossiter • Write a simplified project charter For 2018 Public Course dates and locations, see
• Draft a high-level process map page 5.
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AIChE’s Introduction to Project Management AIChE’s Project Management for AIChE’s The Keys to Managing a
Chemical Engineers Capital Project Successfully
www.aiche.org/ch138 | Course ID: CH138 www.aiche.org/ch149 | Course ID: CH149

Available as Train-a-Team offering. Available as Train-a-Team offering.
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam
AIChE Members – $395 E
Non-Members – $695 In today’s global and fast-paced world, the ability to Capital projects present significant challenges such as risk,
E manage complex projects is vital to keep up with industry’s cost and schedule. In this face-to-face course, learn tips
demands and needs. Yet many chemical engineers have and techniques that will help you to successfully manage
had no formal training in project management and lack a capital project. Learn strategies for detail planning,
Research shows 80% of those with project management Who Should Attend: the skills required to bring projects in on time and within monitoring and controlling a capital project and get
responsibilities have received no training. This eLearning budget. Join project management experts Gwenn Carr hands-on practice using instruments that allow you to
Novice and aspiring project managers who want to expand and Gary Englehardt and gain the skills, as well as time- more effectively and efficiently manage projects.
course will bring you up to speed quickly on basic project
their knowledge of fundamental project management tested and proven templates, that will ensure your project
management vocabulary and techniques—so you will be
techniques and vocabulary. is a success. You Will Learn:
ready when you’re tapped on the shoulder and appointed
project manager. Your Instructors: • How to construct a work breakdown structure to use in
In two highly interactive days, you’ll walk through the key planning the project
This practical and concise introduction to project Gwenn Carr and Gary Englehardt steps of successful project management—including how
to initiate, plan, control, monitor, execute and close out • How to construct appropriate risk handling instruments
management will help you anticipate and manage the
projects. Bring your project with you and be ready to fully • How to create and complete appropriate stakeholder
challenges ahead. You’ll learn how to develop a project
participate in this course. and communication management instruments
plan, gain understanding of the project management life
cycle and knowledge areas, and become aware of how Who Should Attend:
You Will Learn:
project management has developed as a science in the
United States. • The difference between successful and Those who are managing capital projects, including
unsuccessful projects Managers, Project Coordinators and Project Managers.
Designed for novice project managers who find themselves Hear what companies are saying
• The characteristics of effective project leaders Your Instructor:
“in charge” but aren’t sure where to start or how to about AIChE’s Train-a-Team. • Common elements of every successful project plan
proceed, this course provides the solid grounding in Gwen Carr, Gary Englehardt or Fred Williams
project management basics needed to meet milestones www.aiche.org/trainateam • Gaining buy-in from stakeholders
and deliverables with confidence. • Developing a communication plan
You Will Learn: Who Should Attend:

• How to identify the benefits of using project hemical engineers who face the challenge of managing
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management techniques projects—including:
• To list the process groups required to manage a project • New project managers
• How to recognize key technical project management • Experienced project managers
knowledge areas • Virtual team project managers
• To list several elements of a well-written project plan
Your Instructors:
Gwenn Carr and Gary Englehardt Please refer to index on p. 70 for all instructor bios.
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AIChE’s The Three Keys to Managing a Project Successfully AIChE’s Modeling Techniques in Excel
Available as Train-a-Team offering. AIChE Members – $395
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $197.50
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Projects come with many moving parts, unknown You Will Learn: Develop a deeper knowledge of spreadsheets, especially You Will Learn:
variables—and landmines. No project manager has a Excel, which you need to improve your financial and
• How to develop a project plan • The organization of a spreadsheet and what it consists of
crystal ball to predict and manage the risk ahead. But evaluation modeling and analysis. This online course will
it may be mitigated. Be ready by mastering the three • Building a work breakdown structure bring you up to speed on the features of Excel that best • How to best develop an evaluation model in Excel
most important skills that will help you manage and • Identifying and managing risks apply to the specific evaluations chemical engineers get • What Excel functions are available to project evaluation
control projects and achieve success. Attend this one-day • Identifying stakeholders involved with, and how to use them to develop your own • The meaning of net present value and rate of return
course and learn how to plan a project, handle risk and • Creating a communications plan models. • Pitfalls of using spreadsheets and how to avoid them
manage communications with the stakeholders who need
to stay informed. Modeling expert Robert Salvin will begin by introducing the • What financial statements are
Who Should Attend:
concept of modeling and different types of models. You’ll
First, you’ll learn how to create a project plan that guides • Professionals who manage projects of any size or review key Excel principles and then, through the use of Who Should Attend:
the execution and control of your project. You’ll identify the level of complexity three example models—budget, project decision-making Any engineer who is involved in project development,
components of a solid plan and the various areas it must • Engineers who lead project teams and financial statement—you’ll learn how to apply these evaluation and decision-making and who needs to use
cover. You’ll then learn how to build a work breakdown principles. This course also highlights the features of Excel Excel spreadsheets for financial and evaluation analyses.
structure and use it to organize your project and its diverse Your Instructor: that best apply to these models.
tasks. Next, you’ll address how to identify potential risks, Gwen Carr, Gary Englehardt or Fred Williams Your Instructor:
understand where they can emerge and apply proven In addition, you’ll review key evaluation principles—time Robert Salvin
risk-management tools to eliminate them early on. The third value of money, present value and rate of return—and
skill you’ll learn is how to build a communication plan how to use Excel to generate these values. You’ll identify
and leverage it to identify stakeholders and make sure spreadsheet errors chemical engineers commonly make and
communication with them is efficient and timely. will learn how to avoid them. Throughout the course, you’ll
learn practical skills to improve your day-to-day modeling
Templates will be provided in this course that you can efforts, such as how to best organize a spreadsheet,
scale for use on your own projects, large and small. develop an evaluation model in Excel, and apply model
Learn-by-doing techniques will be used to introduce and guidelines to your own work.
reinforce the skills and techniques you learn.
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AIChE’s Spreadsheet Problem-Solving for Chemical Engineers AIChE’s Spreadsheet Problem-Solving for Chemical Engineers
www.aiche.org/ch764 | Course ID: CH764 www.aiche.org/els101 | Course ID: ELS101
ALSO ALSO
AIChE Members – $1,495 AVAILABLE AIChE Members – $1,095 AVAILABLE
AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $747.50 AS AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $547.50 AS
Non-Members – $1,795 ELS101 Non-Members – $1,395 CH764
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Spreadsheets are the chemical engineer’s tool of choice • Use Excel’s built-in functions for calculations and Many chemical engineers are self-taught in the use of Who Should Attend:
for day-to-day problem-solving; however, most chemical table-based operations spreadsheets for day-to-day problem-solving, which is
Chemical engineers who already have some level of
engineers have little formal training in their application • Set up spreadsheet-based flowsheet calculations, testimony to the inherent usefulness of this tool. Although
proficiency with Excel and use spreadsheeting as a
to typical scenarios. This two-day course provides a including processes with recycle streams spreadsheet software was developed for financial
common software tool for problem-solving. Knowledge
comprehensive, hands-on overview of spreadsheet calculations, engineers and scientists in all fields have
• Carry out model-fitting calculations using regression of programming in VBA is not required nor expected.
applications, focused on the needs of chemical engineers. found spreadsheets to be their tool of choice. In this online
techniques, both linear and nonlinear
Join expert instructor David Clough, who has taught this course, Dr. Clough will provide instruction using Excel to Your Instructor:
course over 100 times, as he provides dozens of useful tips • Learn targeting and case study techniques illustrate a wide range of spreadsheet applications and
and techniques to fill gaps in your spreadsheet knowledge. • Set up cash flow tables for venture-guidance skills that are relevant to the calculations and problem- David Clough
profitability analysis solving encountered by practicing chemical engineers.
In two days, you will implement typical chemical
engineering calculations using Excel, including material and Who Should Attend: You will learn how to bring the many features and
energy balances, fluid flow and heat transfer, separations, Chemical engineers with basic knowledge of Excel and capabilities of Excel to the challenge of solving problems
chemical reactions and flowsheets. You will learn common spreadsheet operations. Those involved in process that you encounter in your work.
methods for solving algebraic and differential equations engineering, design and economic evaluation, research
associated with these scenarios. You will analyze data with and development, and chemical engineering education will
You Will Learn:
spreadsheet methods, including statistical methods and find value in this course. • Excel basic skills—improving your efficiency
model-fitting. Optimization methods for process design,
• Working with tables of data and information
scheduling and economics are also included. Your Instructor:
• Process calculations, including flow sheeting and
David Clough economic analysis
You Will Learn: SAVE $795 NOT A MEMBER?
• Improve your basic skills with Excel so that your work is or more when you take • Applied statistics, including regression analysis
more efficient and reliable CH764 and CH766 together. • Solving equations—algebraic and differential Belong to AIChE, the global home
• Develop well-organized, well-documented spreadsheets Just register for course CH768: • Programming in Excel using VBA of chemical engineers.
for chemical engineering calculations that can be Spreadsheet Problemsolving/
understood by other engineers (and... by you, a few Excel VBA Programming AIChE Members always pay the lowest
months down the road) Combo Course.
www.aiche.org/ch768 price for education offerings.
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AIChE’s Excel VBA Programming for Chemical Engineers AIChE’s Excel VBA Programming AIChE’s Cash Flow Principles for
for Chemical Engineers Chemical Engineers

www.aiche.org/ch766 | Course ID: CH766 Non-Members – $1,095 Non-Members – $695
ALSO
AIChE Members – $1,195 AVAILABLE E E
Non-Members – $1,395 ELA118
If you know your way around Microsoft Excel and Projects can fail or succeed based on cash flow, yet many
P you’re ready to learn Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) chemical engineers don’t truly understand cash flow or its
programming, this course is for you. In this online course, role in project evaluation. In this course, you’ll learn the
chemical engineer and VBA expert David Clough will principles of cash flow, ways to assess its value based on
If you know your way around Microsoft Excel and You Will Learn:
you’re ready to learn Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) introduce the built-in programming capabilities of Microsoft the concept of the time value of money (TVM), and how to
• How to work back and forth between Excel and VBA Excel and its companion VBA programming language. use this knowledge to determine the value of projects.
programming, this course is for you. Join chemical engineer
and VBA expert David Clough for an intensive, hands-on • Recording and editing macros Learn how to take your spreadsheet problem-solving skills
to the next level. You’ll begin with a discussion of what cash flow is and
introduction to the built-in programming capabilities of • Debugging VBA code
the concepts of compounding and discounting. You’ll also
Microsoft Excel and its companion VBA programming • Developing Excel add-ins You Will Learn: explore capital and capital structure, present value and
language. Learn how to take your spreadsheet problem- • VBA programming fundamentals and techniques • How to work back and forth between Excel and VBA rate of return. By the end of the course, you’ll have a basic
solving skills to the next level.
• Excel user interfaces: message and input boxes understanding of cash flow principles and how to apply
• Recording and editing macros them to any plant-related project.
In one day, you’ll learn how to improve your efficiency and user forms
• Debugging VBA code
and enhance your spreadsheets by incorporating VBA. You Will Learn:
You’ll discover how to create time-saving shortcuts via Who Should Attend: • Developing Excel add-ins
VBA macros and to develop user-defined functions to Engineers or scientists who have been working with • VBA programming fundamentals and techniques • Definitions of cash flow
package custom chemical engineering calculations. Excel for some time, have basic spreadsheet skills and • Excel user interfaces: message and input boxes and • Principles of compounding and discounting
You’ll also learn how to manage information between the basic knowledge of computer programming, or have user forms • Capital, capital structure and the WACC
spreadsheet and VBA environments. And you’ll see how attended AIChE’s Spreadsheet Problem-Solving for
Who Should Attend: • Present value and rate of return
to design and implement interfaces, including user forms Chemical Engineers (CH764).
and communication, with other software packages, such as • Use of these concepts in project evaluation
Engineers or scientists who have been working with
process simulators. Throughout the day, you’ll cover dozens Your Instructor:
Excel for some time, have basic spreadsheet skills and Who Should Attend:
of topics—everything from creating Excel add-ins to user David Clough basic knowledge of computer programming, or have
interfaces—that will improve your Excel problem-solving SAVE $795 taken AIChE’s Spreadsheet Problem-Solving for Chemical This course is designed for any engineer involved in
skills immediately. or more when you take evaluating or recommending projects.
Engineers course.
CH766 and CH764 together.
Just register for course CH768: Your Instructor: Your Instructor:
Excel VBA Programming/ Robert Salvin
Spreadsheet Problemsolving
David Clough
Combo Course.
www.aiche.org/ch768
For 2018 Public Course dates and locations, see

page 5.
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AIChE’s Chemical Process Economic Evaluations AIChE’s Decision and Risk Analysis for Projects
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Make crisper, more comprehensive decisions about • Evaluating early-stage projects for technical and Involved in chemical engineering project development, You Will Learn:
proposed and ongoing projects in your portfolio with this business assumptions critical to project success evaluation and decision-making? Learn how to avoid
• Describe a disciplined approach to decision making
online course. • Formulating value propositions based on sound “gut-feel” decisions and minimize risk.
• Rank projects within certain constraints
process design
This course will prepare you to undertake the kind of Take this eLearning course to review and learn how • Interpret the role of probability in the decision process
thoughtful, quantitative analysis that will guide you • How to communicate findings in an effective and to choose from different decision-making methods that
illustrative way that encompasses the breadth • Calculate various economic parameters, including NPV
through development stages. You’ll learn how to avoid two will help you make the right investment choices for your
of evaluation • Identify tools and resources to assist in decision making
undesirable outcomes as your projects progress through company. The course begins with a brief summary of the
increasingly costly stages—investing in further development • Using structured methods to identify customer needs, time value of money, present value and profitability indices,
establish target performance specifications, generate
Who Should Attend:
when a positive outcome is unlikely and dropping a project and how to turn them into key economic parameters. You’ll
too early that would have significant benefit if successful. and select product ideas, and establish final product examine how to apply the decision-making methodology Any engineer involved in project development, evaluation
You’ll address how to uncover the value proposition, specifications to different types of project decisions. You’ll learn how and decision-making in the chemical, petrochemical,
perform heat and material balance calculations and make to choose from mutually exclusive projects, build multi- petroleum and other manufacturing environments—
process design considerations. You’ll also examine how Who Should Attend: project portfolios, assess tolling options versus direct including:
to develop operating costs and margin calculations, size This course is designed for those who are involved in manufacturing, select research and development projects, • Those new to engineering
equipment, estimate capital and calculate metrics such as new and ongoing projects, developing value propositions handle licensing and royalty issues, manage joint ventures, • Engineers in managerial positions
NPV and IRR from cash flows. By taking part in example or providing economic evaluations, including: and acquire assets and companies. Through discussion
• Operating plant personnel
problems, you’ll see how to frame the value proposition, • Process engineers and examples, the concept of introducing the probability
work through the mechanics of determining operating and of outcomes will be demonstrated. The instructor will also • Professionals in corporate and R&D
• Technology development professionals
capital costs, and calculate economic metrics. In addition, cover formal approaches to assessing risk and discuss
• Project engineers Your Instructor:
sensitivity analyses will illustrate how to easily uncover and how to integrate them into the decision process.
communicate leveraging issues. • Business decisions analysts Robert Salvin
• R&D You can expect to explore a range of techniques, from
You Will Learn: the simplest use of sensitivity analysis to the use of
• Plant project managers
• Understanding the terminology used in developing the the more complex Monte Carlo simulation approach.
• Business portfolio managers Throughout the course, practical exercises and
costs of production, capital costs, cash flow analysis and
profitability metrics • Those providing input to process and project economics problems will bring the concepts you learn to life.
• How to apply basic principles of process economics to Your Instructor:
improve design decisions
Gary Sawyer
• How to analyze and compare alternative technologies
and scenarios Please refer to index on p. 70 for all instructor bios.
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AIChE’s Economic Evaluation for Chemical Engineers AIChE’s Conceptual Development and Capital Cost Estimating
AIChE Members – $795 Available as Train-a-Team offering.
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What keeps you up at night? Are you concerned about You Will Learn: To secure the adequate funding of engineering projects Who Should Attend:
staying competitive? Do you have the right tools to know in the process industries, you need to accurately identify
• A review of cash-based accounting principles Professionals involved in conceptualizing engineering
whether your projects are helping you do that? The fact the project’s overall scope and monetary cost. Deficient
• What capital is, its sources, the Weighted Average projects and developing timely cost estimates. It will be
is, you need accurate economic evaluations of capital conceptual estimates can cost you time and money
Cost of Capital (WACC) and capital budgeting of special value to decision-makers in the process
projects to keep your plant competitive and its resources and even threaten the viability of the project. Study
industries—including:
optimized. But for chemical engineers without much • The time value of money, discounting and present value with a project development/cost estimating expert and
experience in this area, determining the value of a gain a thorough grounding in the basics of conceptual • Plant engineers
• Recommended evaluation methods and
project may be a daunting task. assessment criteria development and capital cost estimating. • Project engineers
• How to build evaluation models with a class exercise • Project managers
This introductory course eliminates the confusion In two days, you’ll learn important estimating terminology
• How to analyze the results and assess risk • Plant maintenance personnel
surrounding economic evaluations. You’ll learn key and concepts and how to perform the different types
principles and concepts in a way that enables you to • Other types of evaluations: indirect capital, of project estimates. You’ll examine how to predict and • Engineering managers
apply them to any capital project of any size. Starting lease-vs-buy, etc. account for equipment costs, installation factors and
with a review of cash-based accounting principles and cost escalation. Plus, you’ll delve into the detailed cost Your Instructor:
a deep discussion of what capital is, you’ll go on to Who Should Attend: estimating process, including methodology and mechanical John Williams or Theodore Williams
review evaluation concepts and methods, including This course will serve as a valuable introduction for new estimating methods. By the end of the course, you’ll have
lease-vs-buy analyses. chemical engineers involved in evaluating the economics the knowledge and skills necessary to conceptualize
of capital projects. It also will be a great refresher projects and develop timely and accurate cost estimates
Using real-world engineering examples and a class for experienced engineers who want to deepen their that positively impact all of your engineering projects.
problem, the course illustrates these concepts in a way knowledge of methods used to assess projects, from plant
any chemical engineer can relate to. Examine overall projects to major strategic investments. You Will Learn: SAVE $795
company performance metrics and valuations and the or more when you take
• How to effectively conceptualize projects
role they play. After completion, you’ll understand how to Your Instructor: CH139 and CH140 together.
apply these concepts and principles to projects you are • How to perform cost estimating based on project
Just register for course CH758:
currently working on. Robert Salvin type, size and location
Conceptual Development/
• Applying cost-estimating techniques Project Evaluation
• Dealing with uncertainties and risks inherent in Combo Course.
cost estimating www.aiche.org/ch758
• Understanding the capital cost estimating process
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AIChE’s Project Evaluation: AIChE’s Value Propositions for
Operating Cost Estimating & Financial Analysis Your Chemical Process Project Courses from AIChE®
Academy Will Help
Develop Your Skills
Whether you’re looking to add a new skill,
brush up on a subject you haven’t touched
in a while or need to learn about an
emerging area, AIChE Academy has
the courses to fit your needs.

AIChE ACADEMY TOP 10:
AIChE Members – $395
AIChE Undergrad/Grad Student Members – $197.50 • ELA109: CCPS’ Layer of Protection Analysis
Non-Members – $695 (LOPA)
www.aiche.org/ch140 | Course ID: CH140 E • ELA110: AIChE’s Chemical Engineering for
Non-Chemical Engineers
For more information, visit www.aiche.org/trainateam Review the basics of value propositions, where you’ll learn • ELA120: CCPS’ 20 Elements of Risk Based
metrics, models, strategies and best practices you can use Process Safety (RBPS)
on your next chemical process project. Gain the knowledge
you need to eliminate off-spec material reruns, calculate • ELA121: CCPS’ Hazard Identification for
Project evaluation is a critical and highly specialized skill Who Should Attend: Operators and Maintenance Workers
that directly impacts the bottom line. When analyzing utility charges for maintenance activities, optimize multi-
Technical managers, R&D personnel, managers, project product campaign strategies, value multi-step reaction and
any technical or engineering project as a prospective • ELA121_ES: CCPS’ Identificación de Peligros
engineers and project managers involved in projects in distillation improvements, and more.
investment, it’s vital to make an accurate estimate of Para los Operadores y Trabajadores de
the process industries—including:
operating expenses and return on investment. In this course, You Will Learn: Mantenimiento
a project development expert will guide you through the • Chemical
steps the best engineers follow to make sound economic • Pharmaceutical • The various metrics used to quantify a value proposition • ELA122S: CCPS’ Process Safety Leadership for
evaluations of projects, designs and alternatives. • Biological • How to define the financial term “margin” Front-Line Supervisors – Spanish
• Petrochemical • The basics of developing value propositions for plant
In two days, you’ll gain a practical framework for reliability improvement projects • ELA156: CCPS’ Management of Change:
evaluating technical and engineering projects and gain • Materials Overview and Case Study Applications
a better understanding of the evaluations others make. • Petroleum • How to create simple material balance models for yield
You’ll learn how to accurately estimate operating expenses improvement studies • ELS101: AIChE’s Spreadsheet Problem Solving
• Gas
and calculate return on investment. You’ll examine how to • How to tie campaign strategies to available storage and for Chemical Engineers
conduct a cash flow analysis of financial, operating and Your Instructor: calculate savings from different strategies
investment activities, including how to conduct a discounted • Strategies for organizing a team approach with an • ELS104: CCPS’ HAZOP Studies
John Williams or Theodore Williams
cash flow (DCF) analysis to evaluate the attractiveness of an efficient work flow
investment and how to use net present value (NPV) and the • ELS105: CCPS’ Process Safety Management
internal rate of return (IRR) to appraise long-term projects. Who Should Attend: Overview
• Process engineers
You Will Learn: SAVE $795
or more when you take • Researchers
• A value-oriented perspective on potential projects
CH140 and CH139 together. • Production engineers
• How to accurately estimate operating expenses
Just register for course CH758: • Project engineers
• ROI: how to calculate it Project Evaluation/ • Project managers
• Key cash flow analysis terms you need to understand— Conceptual Development
• Project champions
including: Combo Course.
– Discounted cash flow (DCF) www.aiche.org/ch758 Your Instructor: Register for these or any other course at
– Net present value (NPV)
– Internal rate of return (IRR) Gary Sawyer www.aiche.org/academy
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Donald Abrahamson two-phase flow, and piping design. In recent years, he William Ciolek Mary Ann Curran
INSTRUCTOR BIOS
INSTRUCTOR BIOS
Don Abrahamson has over 40 years of experience in has focused on chemically reactive system testing and William Ciolek is a Principal Design Engineer with Mary Ann is an internationally recognized expert in
operations and engineering roles to draw from, in a wide dynamic simulation of runaway reactions. For many UOP, a Honeywell Company, where he is the lead Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Through years of research,
range of areas: process safety management, operations years, Todd has trained coworker engineers at Albemarle specialist for pressure relief worldwide. For 30 years, networking, and publishing, she developed an in-depth
management, process safety engineering, technical Corporation and SI Group on pressure relief design. he has consulted on the gamut of pressure relief knowledge of the field and created an extensive network
management, quality assurance management, process problems and related process safety elements. Bill has of LCA researchers and practitioners worldwide. Before
Todd graduated from Clemson University with B.S. and
development and research. He recently retired from trained hundreds of engineers at UOP and Amoco retiring from the EPA in late 2012, Mary Ann’s research
Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering. He is a registered
Celanese as their Global Process Safety Manager. He also Corporation on pressure relief design. He served as activities included the development of LCA methodology,
professional engineer in South Carolina and a senior
worked for Occidental Chemical for over 32 years. He chairman of the DIERS Users Group subcommittee the performance and review of life cycle case studies,
member of AIChE.
has conducted PHAs, audits, incident investigations and/ on incidents and case histories, and he is a current planning life cycle workshops and conferences, and the
or training on four continents: the Americas, Europe and member of the API Subcommittee on Pressure-Relieving development of life cycle data and resources. Building
Heath Briggs
Asia. He has four US Patents from his work in research and Systems. A graduate of Michigan State University, he awareness within and outside the Agency regarding the
development. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Heath J. Briggs is a chemical engineer and a registered specializes in development of relief analysis methods. importance of LCA to the protection of human health
Cleveland State University. CCPS projects: Process Safety patent attorney with more than 10 years of patent and the environment, her activities contributed to her
Boot Camp. prosecution experience. Heath has significant patent David Clough laboratory’s reputation as a leader in LCA research
prosecution experience in the chemical area, especially and development. She now offers her knowledge
Dr. David Clough has been teaching spreadsheets to
Georjean L. Adams in the areas of materials science (e.g., metallurgy) and and experience as an independent consultant.
undergraduate chemical engineers for 40 years as a
organic chemistry. He represents several Fortune 500
Georjean Adams is a recognized environmental and professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological
companies in this area, managing their worldwide Mary Ann has authored and coauthored numerous papers
health chemical legislative and regulatory expert focused Engineering at the University of Colorado. Professor
patent portfolios. Since 2005, Heath has served as an and book chapters which address the LCA concept and
on managing chemical risks with innovative approaches Clough’s research is in applied process control. He
Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, its applications. She has presented LCA-related talks
toward sustainability by integrating the needs of the public, also served as Associate Dean of Engineering at
where he teaches engineering students a self-designed at technical meetings across the US and in Europe,
government and industry. She has significant and diverse Colorado for seven years, and he currently represents
course on intellectual property law. Heath is involved in South America, South Africa, Asia, and Australia.
experience within a multinational manufacturing company, Colorado to the NCAA as the campus’s Faculty
the community, where his passion is to educate aspiring
preceded by work at USEPA. She has broad experience Athletics Representative. Dr. Clough has taught over
in development and management of practical EHS systems
inventors and entrepreneurs about intellectual property.
130 AIChE short courses on spreadsheet problem- Robert D’Alessandro
which have proven effective across companies, customers solving and programming for ChEs since 1989. Robert D’Alessandro has over 35 years of experience in
Jack Chosnek chemical engineering as a department manager, project
and government.
Jack Chosnek has over forty years of experience in James Conner manager, process engineer, and technology specialist.
Scott Berger the petrochemical industry, the majority involving He recently retired from Evonik Corporation after more
Jim Conner joined CCPS as a Staff Consultant in 2011.
process safety in some regard. He worked for Celanese than twenty-three years of service in various positions.
Scott Berger has nearly forty years of experience in process He has 35 years of experience in chemical process
Corporation for 25 years in R&D, Tolling, Pilot Plants, In his last position at Evonik, he served as the Director
safety and EHS management. From 2001–2015, he engineering, chemical manufacturing operations, and
Operations, Process Engineering and Process Safety of the Process Technology Department, where he led
served as Executive Director of the Center for Chemical R&D across operations in Asia, Europe, Middle East,
Management, in both management and staff positions. He a team of more than 40 engineers and technicians in
Process Safety (CCPS). Under his leadership, the body and North America. Most recently, Jim held the position
is President and Principal at KnowledgeOne LLC, where providing process engineering services in both North
of knowledge and scope of practice of process safety of Sr. Vice President, Operations, for Enerkem, a solid
he has consulted for companies in the chemical, refining, America and South America to improve existing process
expanded both technically and globally, growing from a waste-to-chemicals startup venture. Prior to Enerkem, he
oil and gas, offshore, and LNG industries, implementing plants and to design new process plants. Robert has
primarily technical practice to one involving leadership, served as Vice President, Operations and Technology, for
process safety management systems, facilitating PHAs and been an active member of the AIChE Design Institute
culture, and business. Transformative initiatives under Celanese, with responsibility for domestic and international
LOPA/SIL studies, conducting incident investigations, and for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS) Users Group
his leadership included the Business Case for Process operations and R&D facilities. He was also accountable for
conducting process safety audits and gap analyses. He since its inception in 1986. Robert received his BS in
Safety, the fundamentals of Process Safety Culture, the the design and startup of a world-scale greenfield plant in
has developed software for PHA facilitation, Management Chemistry and Mathematics from Fordham University in
next-generation Guidelines for Risk-Based Process Safety, China. His career has included management positions in
of Change (MOC), and a Hazards Register. Jack is the 1976, his BS in Chemical Engineering from Columbia
development and deployment of global process safety plant operations, process safety, process engineering and
Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Mary University in 1978, and his MS in Chemical Engineering
metrics, the Process Safety Boot Camp, and Process Safety process control in both chemical manufacturing and the
Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC). Jack has from Manhattan College in 1981. He is a Registered
Vision 20/20. manufacture of synthetic fibers. He has expertise in chemical
published more than 15 papers and is a listed contributor Professional Engineer in the State of Alabama and a Fellow
plant management, process optimization and control,
Prior to CCPS, Berger led EHS initiatives at the technology- to the 4th edition of Frank Lees’ Loss Prevention in the of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
management of process and control, management of
manufacturing-business interface for Rohm & Haas and Process Industries. He is an AIChE Fellow and a Licensed
process safety, incident investigation, conduct of operations,
Owens Corning, reducing risk through technology and Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. He is the holder
and organizational change management. Jim has both a BS Umesh Dhake
management and creating value through process safety, of three patents related to chemical production. Umesh Dhake, Asia Pacific Regional Manager for the
in Chemical Engineering and a Masters in Environmental
pollution prevention, and sustainability. Engineering from Rice University in Houston, TX. Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), is a chemical
Gwenn Carr engineer with more than 15 years of experience in
Todd Brandes Gwenn Carr, a Project Management Professional Charles Cowley risk consulting. Previously, Umesh worked with ABS
Todd Brandes is a Principal Engineer with SI Group, (PMP),®
has been a project manager, consultant and Consulting, Risk Division, and with Germanischer Lloyd
Charles Cowley is a mechanical engineer with 34 years
serving in the company’s Operational Excellence educator for over 25 years. She has worked with GmbH. He was involved in Preliminary Hazard Analysis,
in the oil industry, including 27 years with Shell. Career
organization. He has over 20 years’ experience in many companies in various industries and is the Consequence Analysis, QRA studies, MAH Bow Tie
accomplishments include: project team leader developing
process development, evaluation, design, simulation, coauthor of chapters in the Field Guide to Project development, SIL verifications as per IEC 61511, and
Shell HSSE Control Framework, Shell Downstream ‘Hearts
and controls, which has included work on a wide Management. Her interest in improving the skills of Fit for Purpose Certifications for offshore aging assets
& Minds’ safety culture program leader, primary author
range of specialty chemical commercial products such project teams grew from her frustration while working such as pipelines and platforms. Umesh is also Lead
of Shell guide ‘Competence Assurance of HSSE Critical
as alkylated phenols, flame retardants, organometallic with teams who had been assigned to projects and Auditor, Lead Tutor for Quality, Environmental, and
Positions’, led several major incident investigations, Chief
catalysts, and active pharmaceutical ingredients. had received no training or guidance. A kinesthetic Occupational Health & Safety management systems.
Engineer in Shell Morocco, 15 years in Shell major
For most of his career, Todd has been involved in all learner, Ms. Carr uses “learn by doing” techniques
projects, Upstream and Downstream, and Independent
aspects of the design of pressure relief systems: scenario in her seminars and workshops to introduce and
Safety Consultants. In 2012, Charles became a CCPS
identification and modeling, valve and disk sizing, reinforce project management techniques and skills.
Process Safety Consultant.
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Steve Eason and Staff Consultant for CCPS. He is also an API-qualified teams. She is currently providing Organizational Diane Hildebrandt
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INSTRUCTOR BIOS
With over 35 years of industrial experience, Steve assessor in the API Process Safety Site Assessment Program. Effectiveness support as an MBB for the Ras Tanura Diane Hildebrandt is SARChI Professor of Sustainable
Eason recently retired from Honeywell as Corporate Integrated Project, a proposed joint venture between Process Engineering and Director of the Centre of Material
Global Process Safety Manager. Steve developed and Alan Gabelman Dow and Saudi Aramco to build the world’s largest and Process Synthesis (COMPS) at the University of the
deployed Honeywell’s corporate PSM policies while Alan Gabelman’s long, successful career in flavors, petrochemical facilities. She has led improvement teams Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She obtained
implementing a comprehensive, global corporate PSM fermentation and specialty chemicals has included in HR, IT, Procurement, Finance, Manufacturing, Sales and her BSc and PhD in Engineering and Chemical Engineering
and RMP audit program. Steve previously served as assignments in process engineering, manufacturing, Marketing, Customer Service, Logistics and Order to Cash. from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Director of Engineering, Chemicals, and Director of research and development, and scale-up. He has worked During the past 25+ years she has managed and led teams
Process Technology UF6 at Honeywell. Before Honeywell, for industry leaders such as Firmenich, Givaudan, Hercules for GE Plastics, Alcoa and ARCO, with line management Professor Hildebrandt is the first female chemical engineer
Steve was the Vice President of Process Technology for and Stauffer Chemical Company, where he held positions responsibilities in R&D, application technology, to have been awarded an ‘A’ rating by South Africa’s
E&J Gallo Winery, where he led the implementation of ranging from Production Engineer to Process Science e-procurement and ERP benefits realization. National Research Foundation. She and colleague
chemical engineering principles into winemaking. Steve’s Director. As President of Gabelman Process Solutions, Alan Professor David Glasser were jointly awarded the Bill
currently provides consulting services in separations and Janet has led teams in Asia, Europe and North America, Neale-May Gold Medal by the South African Institute of
23 years at Air Products and Chemicals included roles
process engineering globally. Alan’s expertise includes each of which has delivered between $10–30 MM in Chemical Engineers. This was the first time the award had
in production and process engineering; technical and
numerous separation processes and other chemical improved cash flow and improved pricing management been made to an academic. She was also a recipient
project management at several US sites; and executive
engineering unit operations, equipment selection, design during the past 5 years, with performance goals and of the Vice Chancellor’s Researcher Award, University
levels, including Global Process Technology Manager
and sizing, process simulation, P&ID development, and process capability increasing each year. of the Witwatersrand. Diane was the winner of the
for Chemicals. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering
from New Mexico State University (NMSU) and an MS process economics. Alan holds BS, MChE and PhD degrees 2009 Distinguished Woman Scientist of the Year award
in chemical engineering from Cornell University, the Roger G. Harrison (Department of Science and Technology, South Africa) as
in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University. Steve is
a registered professional engineer in NM, PA, NJ and University of Delaware, and the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Roger Harrison is one of the first authors (with three well as the African Union (AU) Scientific Award.
CA, as well as a Certified Process Safety Auditor. respectively. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, as coauthors) of the highly acclaimed textbook Bioseparations
well as an adjunct instructor in chemical engineering at Science and Engineering, which has been adopted by Professor Hildebrandt is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Gary Englehardt the University of Cincinnati. Alan has edited a book on courses at more than 60 universities throughout the world. South Africa and has been elected to the Academy of
bioprocess flavor production, and he has authored several Before becoming a professor in the University of Oklahoma Sciences and the Academy of Engineering of South Africa.
Gary Englehardt, a Project Management Professional
peer-reviewed scientific papers and a book chapter. School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering,
(PMP),®
has been involved in projects for over 30 years
he worked at Phillips Petroleum Company and at Upjohn, David Hill
as a project engineer and consultant. He has helped
Wayne Genck where he focused on bioseparations. David Hill, President of Practical Process Safety LLC, has
numerous companies in the process industries improve
the skills of their teams and obtain better project results. Dr. Wayne Genck is president of Genck International, over 30 years of industrial experience. His careers range
a consulting firm specializing in crystallization and Dennis C. Hendershot from Corporate Principal Risk Engineer for Occidental
He has coauthored chapters in several respected project
management books. precipitation. He has consulted with over 250 companies Dennis C. Hendershot is a chemical engineer with 45 Chemical, Property Insurance Loss Prevention Specialist
on a wide range of issues, including the impact of years of experience in process research and development, for Factory Mutual Global, and Chief Engineer Officer
John Farone impurities, the effect of additives, scale-up, and more. plant design and startup, and process safety. From 1970 for international cargo ship companies. His work
Dr. Genck has written chapters on crystallization for two until his retirement in 2005 as a Senior Technical Fellow, experiences have taken him to over 85 countries. While
John P. Farone is a consultant to the chemical industry
industry handbooks as well as numerous articles published he worked at Rohm and Haas Company. He then joined working for Occidental Chemical for nearly 20 years, his
with over 40 years of experience in process separations,
in chemical engineering magazines. Chilworth Technology Inc. as a Principal Process Safety responsibilities included developing, implementing, and
process simulation and equipment design. He has unique
Specialist (retiring again in 2009) and joined the Center applying process safety programs relating to mechanical
knowledge of the practical design and operation of
Alexandre Glitz for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) of the American integrity, hazard and consequence analysis, fire protection
trayed and packed distillation towers and their internals.
Institute of Chemical Engineers as a Staff Consultant. systems, capital project oversight, property insurance risk
Previously, he was with The Dow Chemical Company for Alexandre Glitz retired from Petrobras, the Brazilian oil
With CCPS, he has worked with the Inherently Safer assessment, incident investigation, audits, assessments,
36 years, where he specialized in process engineering company, after 35 years. He has a Civil Engineering
Design Subcommittee and the Risk Tolerance Criteria and training. David’s extensive experience in mechanical
in distillation and stripping. He is currently a consultant degree and a post-grad degree on Safety Engineering
Subcommittee, and he serves as editor of the Process integrity provides him with a wide range of problem solving
with Fractionation Research Inc. (FRI) and the Separations from Paraná Federal University (Brazil). His experience
Safety Beacon. From 2005–2007, he was a member of the skills and practical program development knowledge.
Research Program (SRP) at the University of Texas at Austin. includes 25 years in an oil refinery as Safety Engineer,
Safety Manager and HSE Coordinator for new projects. BP North American Refineries Independent Safety Panel,
chaired by former United States Secretary of State James Before Occidental Chemical, David was a Loss Prevention
Walt Frank At the company’s Corporate HSE, he coordinated the Specialist for Factory Mutual Global and a national
implementation of Corporate HSE Guidelines (focus on Baker. Dennis received his Bachelor of Science degree
Walt Frank, PE, has a BS degree in chemical engineering from Lehigh University and his Master of Science degree board-certified Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspector. In this
from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He has over occupational and process safety) and served as Corporate position, he was a field engineer for 6 years, travelling
Safety Manager for 8 years until his retirement. from the University of Pennsylvania.
40 years of experience in the chemical process industries, worldwide to conduct risk assessments and process safety
having held assignments in plant technical support, John Herber audits at chemical plants, gas plants, nuclear refining
He worked in the Paraná Fire Department as a fire
production supervision, R&D, major capital project design facilities, gold mines, and power generation plants. As
prevention and design analysis specialist. His experience John Herber joined CCPS in 2009 after a 33-year career
and startup, and process safety consulting. a Loss Prevention Specialist, he assisted clients on the
includes teaching post-graduation courses in Safety and with 3M Company that included positions in process and
development and implementation of practical mechanical
His career includes 24 years with DuPont and ten years Risk Management for Safety Engineers. project engineering, production operations and corporate
integrity programs to increase reliability and prevent
with ABS Consulting. He founded Frank Risk Solutions, safety. In Corporate Safety Services, John developed
accidents. On cargo ships, David worked in “the guts” of
Inc., in 1997. Walt’s consulting expertise includes process Janet Hammill programs for improving PSM systems across 3M’s global
ship engine rooms, where he operated and maintained
safety management program development, evaluation, Janet Hammill is an employee of The Dow Chemical operations, including PSM metrics, Process Hazard
large-scale machinery such as 30,000 BHP diesel engines
and improvement; safety culture and organizational Company, a global diversified chemicals company. She Management policy and implementation guidance. As a
and steam turbines, power generating equipment, fire
effectiveness evaluation and improvement; and explosion is a graduate of the Carnegie-Mellon University Chemical PSM consultant, John has performed audits, facilitated PHAs
protection equipment, and refrigerated cargo systems.
hazards evaluation and control, with a particular emphasis Engineering Master’s program with an undergraduate and assisted with PSM program development and training.
on combustible dust fire and explosion hazards. degree in chemistry. In her position as Organizational John has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Purdue. David is a Mechanical Engineer/Chief Engineer Officer,
Effectiveness Leader and Master Black Belt (MBB), she has having graduated from Glasgow College of Nautical
Walt is a Professional Engineer, licensed in Delaware, and applied Six Sigma methodology to build roadmaps of CCPS projects: Process Safety Boot Camp Training Program,
Studies in Scotland.
is an AIChE Fellow, CCPS Fellow, and Emeritus Member process excellence and mentor performance improvement Process Safety Beacon and Process Safety Moments.
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Jack Hipple Richter Research Award winner for his research on novel has helped clients prioritize risk reduction options; develop services to over 100 chemical process industries in Asia-
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Jack Hipple is a 30-year veteran of the chemical industry. MRI contrast agents with Dr. L. Wilson, and on molecular corporate and plant technical safety programs; identify Pacific, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East. He
He was previously responsible for global chemical motorized “nanocars” with Dr. J. Tour. He focused on inherently safer processes; train PHA team leaders; and has authored a book on process safety management, has
engineering research at Dow Chemical and its Discovery synthetic organic chemistry and chemical education while analyze fire, explosion, and toxic release hazards. Mr. presented papers on PSM in national and international
Research New Ventures program. He also managed employed as a chemistry instructor in the Katy, TX, school Johnson teaches AIChE continuing education courses on seminars, and is an avid blogger on process safety.
chemical material technology projects for the National system for two years, where he wrote new curriculum HAZOP Studies and on Advanced Concepts for Process
Center for Manufacturing Sciences, new product materials and coordinated the school’s chemical hygiene Hazard Analysis, and he teaches process safety in the Brian Kelly
development in the protective equipment area at Ansell and safety program. He also worked with the FIRST (For Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at Brian Kelly has been a part-time staff consultant with
Edmont, and process scale-up for aerogel materials the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) The Ohio State University. AIChE’s Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) since
at Cabot Corporation. He is currently a principal with organization to introduce engineering concepts into the 2005. He was employed for 35 years with Imperial Oil
high school curriculum. Among his many contributions to the loss prevention Enterprises (Exxon) and Syncrude Canada Ltd. Brian has
TRIZ and Engineering Training Services LLC, providing
literature, Mr. Johnson was primary contract author of an extensive background in engineering, major capital
consulting and innovation workshops focusing on TRIZ
Michael (Rick) Hoffman Guidelines for Enabling Conditions and Conditional projects, oil refinery operations and process safety. He
Inventive Problem Solving and introductory chemical
Rick Hoffman is a registered professional Mechanical Modifiers in Layer of Protection Analysis and Guidelines has participated in numerous process safety audits and
engineering training.
Engineering and Certified Maintenance and Reliability for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, Third Edition, as well as incident investigations in the energy sector, and he has
He has been the public and onsite instructor for AIChE’s Professional. Hoffman has over 40 years of experience two books on chemical reactivity hazards, all published by taught courses and consulted on process safety matters
Chemical Engineering Essentials and ASME’s Inventive in plant, corporate and consulting roles in the refining, the AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety. He is also worldwide. Brian received his BASc and MASc degrees
Problem Solving (‘TRIZ’) courses for 13 years. Jack has petrochemical and synthetic fuels industries. The main focus author of two process safety sections in Perry’s Chemical in chemical engineering from the University of Ottawa
served as chair of AIChE’s Management Division and of his career has been in plant reliability improvement. Engineers’ Handbook. (Canada). In 2010, he received the Chemical Institute
recently completed a 3-year term on AIChE’s Board of He has held worldwide responsibility for mechanical of Canada’s Process Safety Award for his many years
Mr. Johnson holds BS and MS degrees in chemical
Directors, serving on its Finance and Center for Chemical engineering, strategic maintenance, mechanical integrity, of outstanding service in the process safety field.
engineering from Purdue University. He is president of
Process Safety committees. He served as an SME on standards, capital project support, vendor qualification
the Unwin Company consultancy, having previously held His CCPS projects include: Process Safety Boot Camp,
IRI’s Disruptive Innovation task force. and high-level troubleshooting for a major petrochemical
Senior Engineer positions with Hercules and DuPont and a Hazard Identification, Recognizing Catastrophic Incident
and refining company. Hoffman also has experience
Research Leader position at Battelle.
Phillip R. Hodge implementing and auditing the PSM rule. Warning Signs, and Dealing with Aging Process
Mr. Hodge works at BakerRisk’s Houston office in the Equipment. Brian resides in Calgary, Alberta.
He is past chair of the AIChE Safety & Health Division and
Process Safety Group. His work focuses on risk-based Joseph W. Holmes serves as a member of the CCPS Safety and Chemical
design of new facilities, as well as risk-based upgrades Joseph W. Holmes, Principal Engineer, Research & Engineering Education (SAChE) Committee.
Ellen Lenz
to existing facilities using BakerRisk’s dispersion and blast Software Integration, holds BS and MS degrees in Ellen Lenz has over 30 years of experience in the chemical
modeling software tools, SafeSite3G© and QRATool©. Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University, Jerry Jones industry. She has held positions in project management,
Phillip performed studies for a wide variety of chemistries, College Station, Texas (TX), USA. Holmes brings to this research and development, process safety, and operations
Jerry L. Jones, PE, joined CCPS as a staff consultant in
including gas plants, refineries, polyethylene plants, and position more than 30 years of software development during her 22 years at LyondellBasell Industries and 9
2012. He has over 40 years of experience across many
ammonia production facilities. He conducted CO2 gas experience. Prior to focusing on the integration of years at BASF Corporation.
industry sectors, including facilities for oil production
ingress tests to determine building toxic response and products obtained via an alliance with Honeywell, he and refining, commodity chemicals, specialty chemicals
optimize shelter-in-place procedures and buildings to meet served as the project manager for HTRI Xchanger Suite Ellen has expertise facilitating PHAs, developing process
and polymers, pharmaceuticals, and electronics industry safety standards and guidelines, transferring process
toxic risk criteria. He also worked on several research and its components. He has assisted in the development materials. He has worked in process development and
endeavors such as the efficacy of water curtain mitigation and updating of several HTRI workshops and is a safety information across organizations, and conducting
engineering, plant design, EHS, and process safety EH&S audits.
of ammonia, the modeling of the consequences from the knowledgeable, experienced HTRI workshop instructor. functions, and has supported manufacturing operations in
release of pyrophoric materials, and the vulnerability of Before joining HTRI, Holmes worked for Bryan Research over a dozen countries while an employee of Monsanto,
safety-critical equipment to fires and explosions. Phillip Ellen received a BS in Chemical Engineering from the
and Engineering, Bryan, TX, as a process research and SRI International, Raychem, and Genentech/Roche.
Hodge supervises the BakerRisk Intern Program and University of Maryland and an MBA from the College
development engineer. Holmes is a member of AIChE He has extensive experience with the implementation
coordinates the BakerRisk new hire training program. of William & Mary.
and a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Texas. of risk-based management systems, including those
Additionally, he prepared the “What Every New Engineer for process safety. He earned BS and ME degrees
Needs to Know about Process Safety” course for AIChE Karl V. Jacob Uzi Mann
in chemical engineering from Cornell and an MS in
Academy, Fundamentals of Process Safety. Karl V. Jacob is a Fellow in Engineering Sciences at The Dr. Uzi Mann is a retired professor of chemical engineering
environmental engineering from Stanford. He is a licensed
at Texas Tech University. He has taught chemical reactor
Dow Chemical Company. He is also founder of the Solids professional engineer in Illinois and California, and he
Phillip has worked with the Mary K. O’Connor Process design at undergraduate and graduate levels for over
Processing Lab at Dow in Midland, Michigan. For the last holds a number of safety-related certifications. CCPS
Safety Center under the direction of Dr. M. S. Mannan at 30 years, and he received several teaching awards. In
three decades, he has worked on a vast array of particle projects: Process Safety Boot Camp Training Program,
Texas A&M University. While there, he worked on several academe, he successfully obtained numerous research
technology problems, with particular expertise in silo/ Process Safety in Bioprocess Manufacturing Facilities,
projects ranging from off-shore reliability assessments grants from government agencies (NSF, DOE, USDA) and
hopper design, powder mechanics, pneumatic conveying, and Process Safety in Laboratories and Pilot Plants.
to chemical plant antiterrorism. His master’s thesis was industry to develop innovative chemical reactor operations.
particle engineering and drying.
entitled “Determining Bounds for a Pressure Hazard Prior to joining academe, he conducted industrial
B. Karthikeyan
Rating to Augment the NFPA 704 Standard” and required Karl is a chemical engineering graduate of Case Western R&D work for 5 years on improving chemical reactor
extensive knowledge of reactive chemicals and adiabatic B. Karthikeyan is a chemical engineer from Madras performances. He holds several patents on chemical
Reserve University. He is a former member of the AIChE
calorimetry. His coursework focused on process safety and University, India, with over 35 years of experience in reactor configurations. Dr. Mann was invited to write the
Board of Directors and a past chair of the Particle
quantitative risk analysis. Phillip is a contributor to Franklin the chemical process industry. He is a senior member of chapter on chemical reactor technology for the 7th edition
Technology Forum.
Lees’ Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 4th Edition. AIChE. He is the founder/director of Prism Consultants, of the renowned Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical
While working for ExxonMobil Chemical, he designed Chennai, India, established in 2001. His core areas of Technology. Dr. Mann continues to serve as a consultant to
Robert Johnson expertise include implementation of risk-based process
a new curriculum for the company’s “Fundamentals of industry in the area of chemical reaction engineering.
Safety” course, which is used as an introduction to all Mr. Johnson is a Fellow of AIChE and an industry leader in safety management as per current best practices, process
elements of process safety for ExxonMobil Chemical and the development and dissemination of risk analysis methods safety training, incident investigations, process hazard
Refining. Phillip was a Welch Fellow and George Holmes and risk management strategies. Since 1978, Mr. Johnson analysis and PSM audits. He has provided consultancy
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Eric Maynard From 2000–2016, Dan led the North America Process Theodore Nelson The author of more than 40 technical publications, and
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Eric Maynard is the Director of Education and a Senior Safety Center of Expertise for BASF. Dan served on the Dr. Theodore Nelson is focused on performing pressure the creator of numerous computerized mixing equipment
Consultant with Jenike & Johanson, Inc., which is ACC Process Safety Committee from 1998–2016 and on relief and flare system (PRFS) evaluations for clients in the design programs, he is currently a professor of chemical
recognized as the world’s leading engineering firm the CCPS Technical Steering Committee from 2011–2016. petrochemical, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. engineering at the University of Arkansas.
specializing in bulk solids handling technology. Eric He was BASF’s representative to the International Process He has proven experience with conducting incident
received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova Safety Group (IPSG) from 2002–2016 and served as its investigations as well as a demonstrated record of Herman Purutyan
University and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Chair from 2008–2011. addressing safety solutions. Dr. Nelson also has extensive Herman Purutyan is the CEO of Jenike & Johanson Inc., a
Worcester Polytechnic Institute. experience in safety technologies; safety testing; process world-renowned engineering consulting firm specializing
Dan is driven by a management system approach to in the storage, flow and processing of powder and bulk
technology; Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems
During his 18 years at Jenike & Johanson, he has achieving process safety excellence, with a strong focus on solids. He has been recognized worldwide for his technical
(DIERS) methodology; Center for Chemical Process Safety
workedon more than 500 projects designing materials raising awareness through training, from the executive level ability and experience in the field of storage and flow of
(CCPS) guidelines; process safety management; hazard
handling and pneumatic conveying systems for powders to the shop floor. Dan has a BS in Chemical Engineering solids. He has 20 years of experience designing solids
and operability studies; quantitative risk analysis; and
and bulk solids such as cement, coal/coke, limestone, from the University of Toledo and continues to serve on handling systems and troubleshooting handling programs
ASME, OSHA, and NFPA guidelines.
resins, biomass, calcined nuclear waste, foods, and the college’s Industrial Advisory Board. Dan became an in a wide variety of industries.
pharmaceuticals. He is the cement industry and crushing instructor with CCPS in 2016. Dr. Nelson is a safety consultant for IoMosaic, CBI,
technology specialist at Jenike & Johanson, and he has Honeywell and Noblis (a nonprofit scientific and Rahul Raman
valuable experience with dust explosivity and OSHA’s John Murphy engineering company in support of projects with the Rahul Raman graduated from Carnegie Mellon
National Emphasis Program (NEP) on Combustible Dust John Murphy, PE, has more than 40 years of experience Department of Defense, DOE and other government University with a Dual Master’s Program in Chemical
Handling (CPL 03-00-008). in chemical manufacturing and process safety, with jobs agencies). Dr. Nelson is an AIChE Fellow and a former Engineering and Engineering & Technology Innovation
in the chemical industry, consulting and government. He officer and member of the board of directors of his Management in 2012. He provides PSM consulting
Eric routinely lectures on the storage, flow, and pneumatic has retired from the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard local section. services to the oil and gas industry in Process Safety
conveying of bulk solids for companies and at established Investigation Board, where he served as lead investigator. Information and Management of Change. He provides
industrial-focused conferences. He has published over 30 John also retired from The Dow Chemical Company, where Andres Orlando technical stewardship to the organization and is a
technical articles on solids flow and pneumatic transport. he was a leader in process safety. He has a BS in Chemical Dr. Andres Orlando is a project engineer with Jenike subject matter expert on pressure relief systems. He has
Engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from Central & Johanson. Andrés received his B.S. in Mechanical actively participated in and contributed to the Design
Jack McCavit Michigan University. John has special expertise in incident Engineering and Ph.D. in Granular Mechanics from Institute for Emergency Relief System (DIERS) User Group
Jack McCavit retired from Celanese Chemical Company investigation and root cause analysis, reactive chemicals Clarkson University. His graduate studies focused on Meeting and API Sub-Committee for Pressure Relief
after 35 years of experience in operations management management, and process safety management. John is a computational modeling of granular materials flows and Systems. He completed his Bachelor’s of Technology in
and practical application of process safety management Professional Engineer, licensed in the state of Texas, and is comparing numerical models against physical experiments. Chemical Engineering from Anna University in 2007.
systems. Jack served as the BP Baker Panel’s technical an AIChE Fellow, CCPS Fellow and Emeritus Member and Prior to joining Jenike & Johanson, he spent a year at
project manager and was a part of the team that monitored Staff Consultant for CCPS. the University of Southern California researching the A. S. Rangwala
BP’s implementation of the Baker Panel recommendations. micromechanical behavior of sheared sands. As a project
CCPS projects: Process Safety Boot Camp Training A. S. Rangwala has worked for 35 years in the mechanical
Jack served as the committee chair for CCPS’ Guidelines engineer for Jenike & Johanson, he troubleshoots and
Program, Independent Protection Layers and Initiative design and structural dynamics of compressors and gas
for Risk-Based Process Safety. He graduated from Texas recommends corrective action for solids flow problems,
Events, Conditional Modifier Project. turbines in aircraft engines and steam and gas turbines
Tech University with a BS in chemical engineering. provides recommendations to avoid solids flow–related for power plant applications. He has worked at General
problems in new installations, and designs customized bulk Electric Company’s Steam Turbines Department in
Benjamin McDavid Louisa Nara
solids handling equipment. In addition, Andrés regularly Schenectady, NY, and at General Electric Company’s
Benjamin McDavid is a Process Safety Engineer with Louisa Nara is the Technical Director of the Center for lectures on the flow of solids in bins, hoppers, and chutes. Aircraft Engines Group in Cincinnati, OH, and Lynn, MA.
Ashland Inc. He has 20 years of experience in process Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) for the American Institute
He is the author of the book Control System Trends and
safety, process engineering design and operations, and has of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). She has over 33 years of Bilal Patel Turbo-Machinery Dynamics: Design and Operation. He is
worked for engineering companies, construction companies, experience in the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical
Bilal Patel is a consultant at the Centre of Material technical director of the Machinery Dynamics Group of
and operating companies. He has performed pressure relief and food industries, and has worked for and with more
and Process Synthesis (COMPS), University of the the Center for Engineering Technology in Orlando, FL.
design using DIERS technology since 1997. He has been than 65 companies. Louisa joined AIChE/CCPS after 15
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He obtained
active with the DIERS Users Group since 2000. He is a years with Bayer, where she held positions of increasing
responsibility, including: Manager, Process Safety and
his BSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Frank Renshaw
professional engineer in the state of West Virginia. University of the Witwatersrand.
Crisis Management; Director of HSE, Security and Frank Renshaw is a certified safety professional, certified
Emergency Response at Bayer’s largest US Manufacturing industrial hygienist and EHS consultant, and has 35 years
Dan Miller He has received numerous awards during his PhD studies,
of experience with Dow Advanced Materials (formerly
site; and Director, Risk Management and Compliance, including the NRF Scarce Skills Scholarship and the Mellon
Dan Miller retired in 2016 following a 39-year career with NAFTA. Louisa’s roles and responsibilities within CCPS Rohm and Haas Company). He served as EHS Director
BASF. During the first half of his career, Dan managed Postgraduate Mentoring Programme Scholarship.
include overseeing the development of projects in the CCPS for Specialty Materials, Corporate Safety Director and
operations of production facilities at BASF’s Geismar, technical portfolio, developing and enhancing CCPS’ Corporate Industrial Hygiene Director for Rohm and Haas.
Louisiana, site, including the design, construction, His research interest is in the field of process synthesis
educational offerings, developing and deploying new tools, and integration. He is particularly interested in He chaired the company’s Code of Safe Manufacturing
commissioning and on-going operation of 8 new process and enhancing value for corporate member sponsors. She Practice Committee, coordinated business-wide initiatives
plants employing varying technologies. In 1995, he developing systematic methods and tools to aid
holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from West Virginia in flowsheet synthesis, especially tools that can be on closed-system chemical operations, and led Major
transferred to BASF’s global headquarters in Ludwigshafen, University and an MS in Environmental Engineering from Accident Prevention studies involving coatings, adhesive,
Germany, making the career path change into process implemented in the conceptual phase of the design
Villanova University, and is a Certified Compliance and process. These tools should aid in setting targets for and plastics additives processes. He served on new
safety. Between 1995 and 1999, Dan was involved in Ethics Professional (CCEP). Louisa was elected to the West acquisition teams in Europe and Asia and on a plant start-
supporting the process safety evaluation of major capital processes in order to ensure that they are designed to
Virginia University Chemical Engineering Academy for her be efficient, environmentally friendly and sustainable. up team for a coatings facility in Russia. He is co-chair of
investment projects in Germany, Belgium and the Asia- outstanding professional accomplishments. NIOSH’s Manufacturing Sector Council and has published
Pacific region. It was also during this time that BASF work related to the National Prevention through Design
formed a global steering committee for process safety, W. Roy Penney
Initiative. Frank received his B.S. degree from the University
serving as senior member from 1998 until his retirement. W. Roy Penney, Ph.D., worked for more than 25 years of Iowa, his M.S. degree from the University of Minnesota,
with leading industrial companies such as Phillips and his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati.
Petroleum, Monsanto, A. E. Staley, and Henkel Corp.
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Martin Rhodes Dave was the 2012 President of the American Institute of biomass utilization processes as well as the application Néstor Sposito
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Martin Rhodes holds a Bachelor’s degree in chemical Chemical Engineers. He has served on the National level of appropriate technology to the production of biofuels Néstor Sposito joined CCPS in 2011 after 32 years with
engineering and a PhD in particle technology from as their Treasurer, Board of Director, and chair of various in underdeveloped regions. Dr. Seay is the current Chair Dow Argentina. He is actively involved in the leadership
Bradford University in the UK. He has industrial experience committees since 1990. of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) of NFPA and the United Nations Environmental Program’s
in chemical and combustion engineering as well as Sustainable Engineering Forum (SEF) and past Vice-Chair APPEL Process. Néstor has BS degrees in Chemistry and
Dave graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in and Education Committee Chair for the SEF. In the last
many years’ experience as an academic at Bradford and Chemical Engineering and an MS in Hygiene and Safety
Chemical Engineering and from the University of Texas with several years, he has served on the organizing committee
Monash Universities. He has research interests in various Engineering.
an M.S. in Chemical Engineering. Dave is a registered for several international sustainability-focused conferences.
aspects of gas fluidization and particle technology, areas
professional engineer in Pennsylvania.
in which he has many refereed publications in journals and Dr. Seay leads the University of Kentucky Appropriate
S. Greg Starks
international conference proceedings. Martin has served on S. Greg Starks, Regional Sales Manager for HTRI in the
Alan Rossiter Technology and Sustainability (UKATS) research group at
the editorial boards of Powder Technology and KONA and the University of Kentucky Paducah Extended Campus. USA and Canada, graduated with a BS in Mechanical
on the advisory board of Advanced Powder Technology. Alan Rossiter is President of Rossiter & Associates, a
UKATS is focused on developing sustainable, renewable Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station,
Martin has a keen interest in particle technology education. consulting firm dedicated to helping oil refineries and
energy solutions for underdeveloped regions, particularly Texas, USA. While working at the Shuttle Support Thermal
He has published books and CD-ROMs on laboratory chemical plants achieve excellence in energy efficiency.
sub-Saharan Africa. His group has collaborated with the Control Systems Analysis Group of Rockwell International,
demonstrations and has directed continuing education In addition to consulting projects for companies such as
African Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Houston, Texas, he performed thermal analyses for the
courses for industry in the UK and Australia. He was ExxonMobil, Phillips66, LyondellBasell and Sasol, Alan
Technology (ACREST) in Cameroon to develop a space shuttle and developed geometry models for the shuttle
co-founder of the Australasian Particle Technology Society. provides training courses in pinch analysis and energy
sustainable process for producing biodiesel from locally and space station. From 1994–1999, Starks was employed
Martin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical management. He also runs courses in communication skills,
available resources. In addition, his group is working to at HTRI developing calculation engines for their software
Engineering at Monash University, Australia. engineering ethics and professional excellence, and was
develop metrics for evaluating the impacts of renewable as well as a quality control database to track program
the 2010 Chair of the South Texas Section of AIChE. Dr.
energy processes in developing regions. Dr. Seay is a past changes. He then moved to Austin, Texas, to work as the
Robert Rosen Rossiter was born and raised in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
faculty advisor to two US EPA-funded People, Prosperity Software Engineering Manager for Tanisys Technology, Inc.,
and received his B.A., M.Eng. and Ph.D., all in chemical
Bob is currently a Staff Consultant and Instructor for and the Planet projects focused on sustainable biofuel. Dr. a supplier of automated test equipment for semiconductor
engineering, from the University of Cambridge, England.
CCPS. He has over 15 years of experience in chemical Seay’s outreach activities include hosting local high school memory technologies. When he rejoined HTRI, Starks was
He has more than 30 years of process engineering and
production management; five years in project and students who are interested in participating in sustainability- responsible for enhancements to the Xist calculation engine.
management experience and more than 70 publications,
process engineering management; and 20 years in the focused research projects. More than 20 students from 5 He now leads sales efforts in the United States and Canada
including the books Waste Minimization Through Process
safety, health and environment area. From 1997 through area high schools have participated over the last 5 years. and assists with HTRI’s training initiatives.
Design (McGraw-Hill, 1995), Professional Excellence:
2003, he was the Director of Emergency Response
Beyond Technical Competence (AIChE-Wiley, 2008) and,
and Issue Management for BASF Corporation in Mount Adrian Sepeda Byron Sun
more recently, Energy Management and Efficiency for the
Olive, NJ. Since 2003, Bob has done Occupational Process Industries (AIChE-Wiley, 2015). Adrian Sepeda has a broad background that spans Byron has over 27 years of experience in the chemical
Safety, Process Safety and Emergency Response more than 33 years in the chemical industry. After industry, including 9 years as a chemical engineer, 6 years
consulting. Prior to 1997, Bob worked for Merck, Robert Salvin managing process safety, risk management and accident in production management and 12 years as a safety,
Polaroid, Story Chemical, and Polysar. Bob received investigations for Occidental Chemical Corporation’s health and environment professional. Byron worked for
a B.Ch.E. in 1966 from Clarkson University. He is a Robert Salvin is a chemical engineer with over 40 years
worldwide operations, he retired from OxyChem as China Petrochemical Company (now SINOPEC) for 9 years
Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. of experience in the chemical industry. He has been
the Director of Risk Management in 2002. He then and for DuPont Company for 15 years. From 2004 through
associated for 35 of those years with LyondellBasell and
started his own process safety and risk management 2012, he was Safety, Health and Environment Manager
David A. Rosenthal its predecessor companies, Lyondell and ARCO Chemical.
consulting firm, A. L. Sepeda Consulting Inc. He has for DuPont China. In 2012, Byron became a full-time safety
Throughout his career, Salvin has focused primarily on
David Rosenthal, P.E., leads Reliability Delivery and serviced national and international clients that include consultant and joined CCPS as a staff consultant.
corporate development, with responsibility for economic
Asset Management for Jacobs Engineering Group in large corporations as well as small businesses. He
evaluation guidelines and methodology for the company
Houston, TX, where he implements methods and practices “retired” again and closed his business in 2013. Byron received a diploma from Shanghai Science and
worldwide. He has an MBA in finance with degrees from
to maintain their client’s assets in the US. He has been Adrian now accepts small process safety– and risk Technology University and obtained a Master’s degree
Drexel University. management–related projects and teaching requests.
involved in Reliability and Maintenance for over 30 years. from Tongji University.
His previous positions included roles as Reliability Manager Gary Sawyer
for Marsulex, working the coke cutting, handling, and Dan Smith Remi Trottier
transport assets across five refineries. He has also been a Gary Sawyer, P.E., has over 30 years of experience in the Dan Smith is a Sr. R&D Advisor with Albemarle Corporation Remi Trottier is a research scientist in solids processing at
Maintenance Director with MEMC in Houston in polysilicon chemical industry, most of which has supported business and Manager of Albemarle’s Chemical Reactivity and The Dow Chemical Company. He has more than 20 years
manufacturing. As a reliability consultant, David assisted and R&D decision analysis with process design, economic Engineering Fundamentals group. He has extensive of industrial experience in particle characterization. He has
LanXess (which produces Butyl Rubber) and Kellogg’s (in evaluations, and competitive technology assessments. experience in process development, process design, written numerous papers on particle characterization and
their Snack Foods Division) in the development of their He was employed by Lyondell Chemical (formerly ARCO process simulation and process evaluation, which has has taught short courses.
reliability programs. Chemical), and by Union Carbide prior to that. He is now included work on Albemarle commercial products such
a consultant practicing as Process Evaluations LLC. He as alpha olefins, linear alcohols, flame retardants, and Thomas Troxel
The majority of his career was with Rohm and Haas holds a B.S. and M.S. degree in chemical engineering organometallic catalysts. For 20 years, he has consulted
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and he serves as an Thomas Troxel is a Vice President at Jenike & Johanson Inc.,
Company, a specialty chemical manufacturer. He was on pressure relief and related process safety issues. Dan
Industrial Consultant for the University of Pennsylvania. a world-renowned engineering consulting firm specializing
their Maintenance and Reliability leader in their Acrylic trains engineers at Albemarle Corporation on pressure relief in the storage, flow and processing of powder and bulk
Acid Deer Park, TX, facility and a Manufacturing design, and has been active with the AIChE Design Institute
Jeffery Seay solids. He has been involved in many projects related to
Manager leading their corporate Manufacturing for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS) Users Group since flow properties testing, modeling, blending, pneumatic
Excellence deployment throughout its businesses. Dr. Jeffrey Seay is Associate Professor of Chemical and 2004. Since he joined Albemarle’s Core Technology group conveying and fluidization.
His role in their Corporate Asset Management Materials Engineering at the University of Kentucky College in 2003, his focus has been to develop a comprehensive
group in the mid-90s developed the company’s of Engineering Paducah Extended Campus Program. Dr. reactive hazard evaluation program for the whole company,
competency in Reliability and Equipment Utilization Seay joined the University of Kentucky in 2008 after a 12- and he has been instrumental in establishing several other
improvement. Assignments during his twenty-eight- year career as a process engineer in the chemical industry. process safety practices and procedures within Albemarle.
year career included process, project engineering and His research interests include the integration of sustainable Dan graduated from the University of Arkansas with a B.S.
technical management roles in various facilities. biomass supply chains with thermochemical modeling of degree in Chemical Engineering in 1985.
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Dr. Erdem Ural is a well-known combustible dust Dr. Theodore “Ted” Williams has developed detailed cost
expert with over 25 years of experience working on estimation techniques for capital projects and operations
research, litigation, insurance, protection, testing and over more than a decade at EPS, a leading engineering
regulatory aspects of combustible dust problems. He design firm. In that time, he has worked closely with clients
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has published numerous papers on the subject and is in the energy sector performing operations analysis,
author of the “Explosion Prevention and Protection” design, and valuations for oil refining, petrochemical,
chapter of the National Fire Protection Association biofuels, and power generating facilities.
(NFPA) Handbook of Fire Protection. Dr. Ural taught as
an adjunct professor of Fire Protection Engineering at
the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He currently serves
Dr. Williams’ technical expertise includes cost estimating,
aerodynamics, computational fluid systems, finite element
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method, product development and design optimization.
on the editorial boards of two technical journals and on While continuing his work in industry, he also served
several NFPA combustible dust hazard committees, and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Aerospace and
he chairs the ASTM International committee responsible Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of
for combustible dust hazard standards. Notre Dame, where he taught aerodynamics theory and
mechanical engineering design. He holds a PhD and an TRAINING FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERS AND THOSE THEY WORK WITH
Jenny Wang MS in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from
Jenny Wang is currently a CCPS staff consultant and Notre Dame and a BA in Physics from Wabash College. Your success depends on employees who are trained and up-to-date on what’s new and what’s changing
instructor. From 2009 to 2015, she was the Asia process relevant to their complex and critically important jobs. But providing that training when and how they need
safety manager at Air Products. Prior to that, she had 15
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