Conference Presentations
2023 Fall P2SAC Conference Presentations
Tuesday, December 5: Tutorials
- Using Virtual Controllers in the Process Industry - Honeywell
- Process Safety Deliverables in Projects - ExxonMobil
- Machine Learning-aided Safety Hazards Detection & Identification - Prof Li
2023 Spring P2SAC Conference Presentations
Monday, May 8: Tutorials
- Osman P2SAC Overview spr2023.pdf
- Opportunities to Enhance Safe Chemical Manufacturing with Electrochemical Processes
- Improving Lab Safety in Academia: Free and Inexpensive Methods for Identifying High-Risk Chemistry
- Review and Update on Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS)
- Strategies to Manage Chemical Incompatibility, Theis, AcuTech
- Dust Hazard Assessments, Dastidar, Fauske
- Risk Analysis Screening Tool - RAST
- Optimization Under Uncertainity, Can Li
- Fire ExpIosion Presentation - SABIC
Tuesday, May 9: Safety
- Kickoff and P2SAC Overview, Mentzer
- Update on the CSB, Hartz
- Emission Monitoring and Reduction, Gotten, Honeywell
- CCPS Handbook for Process Safety in Laboratories & Pilot Plants, Vaughn, CCPS
- Application of Inherently Safe Principles to Projects, Huff, ExxonMobil
- Purdue CERIAC-Center for cyber security... Rasmus, Purdue
- Recent NFPA Updates, Dastidar, Fauske
Wednesday, May 10: Pharma & Modeling / Simulation
- Physics Informed Response Model for Calculation of Flammable Cloud Volume ..., Vianna, Campinas
- Neural Network and CFD Simulation applied for Determination of Leak Location, Tsukada, Campinas
- Quantitative Gas Evolution Analysis via Combination of Online Thermal Massflow ..., Dixon, GSK
- Current Practices to Address Dust Explosivity Hazard Among Pharma Companies, Allian, Lilly
- Process Safety Knowledge Management, Kunt, PSRG
- Development of a PPE Selection Tool, Sathanapally, Gilead
- Unexpected Corrosion of Hastelloy by Selectfluor
2022 Fall P2SAC Conference Presentations
- Li-ion Battery Safety & Performance
- Use Fault Tree Analysis When LOPA Fails
- Reactive Chemicals Program & Calorimetry at Dow
- Quantum chemistry-based calculation tools, TCIT & YARP
- Leak Detection - Air Products
Thursday, Dec 15: Safety Conference
- P2SAC Overview
- Safety Management Systems & Prevention of NATECH Events
- Materials & Devices for Low-Cost Gas Sensors
- Measuring Process Safety Culture: Beyond the Bradley Curve
- Chemical Engineering Collaboration to Support Early Phase Acceleration
- Why do we use ADT24 - BMS
- Practical Use of AKTS Modeling
- Systems Engineering and Process Safety - Li
- Enhancing Safe Chemical Manufacturing with Electrochemical Processes - Tackett
- Automation in Process Safety Information Delivery - Lilly
- Enabling Reactive and Hazardous Processes with Continuous Flow Technologies
2022 Spring P2SAC Conference Presentations
Monday, May 9: Tutorials
- Prevention Through Design
- Chemical Security: Protecting Chemicals from People
- Demonstration of Reactive Hazard Evaluation & Analysis compilation Tool - RHEACT
Tuesday, May 10: Mini-conference on safety in the pharmaceutical industry
- P2SAC Overview
- Using O.R.E.O.S. Tool for Explosive Hazard Identification
- Calorimetric Techniques to Support your Reactive Hazards Analysis
- Ab initio calculation of Physical Properties
- Heats of Decomposition of a Series of Pharmaceutical Reagents Using an ARSST Calorimeter
- Potential Safety Hazards Associated with Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions
Wednesday, May 11: Mini-conference on general safety
- Overview of P2SAC
- Port of Beirut Lebanon Explosion - Analysis and Impacts
- High-surface area oxidation: can it also happen in my plant?
- Low Power, Low Cost Gas Sensors
- Bowtie Diagrams
- Development of Process Safety Professionals
- Creating Best-In-Class Leaders with Incremental Online Learning
- Li-on Batteries Thermally Safe and Early Sensing
- Process Safety Risks in Renewable Energy
Thursday, May 12: Mini-conference on flow assurance
- Leak Detection on Liquid Pipelines
- Continuum-scale simulation tools for transport phenomena in dense suspensions
- Flow Assurance Overview and Challenges in Oil and Gas Production
2021 Fall P2SAC Conference Presentations
Monday, December 6
Welcome & Overview: Osman Basaran (Purdue University)
Practical Use of ARC Analysis for Thermal Stability Evaluation in Corteva: Min Sheng (Corteva)
Overview of FGS Performance-based Design and Coverage Analysis: Jim McGlone (Kenexis)
Reactive System ERS Design Basics & ERS Case Studies: Elizabeth Raines (Fauske)
Tuesday, December 7
Connected process plants to improve safetyin the digital world: Prasad Goteti (Honeywell)
P2SAC Project Overview Presentation: Ray Mentzer (Purdue University)
Tool to calculate LFL and UFL of flammable mixtures with inerts: Joe Jakubowicz (Purdue University)
Industrial Perspectives on Energetic Materials: Xuemin Chen (Dow)
Use of Quantum Mechanical calculations in Thermal Hazard Assessment: Fareed Sayeed (Lilly)
BICYCLO 1.1.1]PENTANE –A RISING PROCESS SAFETY CHALLENGE: Connor Barrett and Jeff Sperry (Vertex)
Sustainability Metrics for Small Molecule Development: Abe Schuitman (Corteva)
Wednesday, December 8
Workplace Excellence Management System (CountryMark)
3M's EHS Management Systems - An element-based approach
2021 Spring P2SAC Conference Presentations
Thursday, May 13
Challenges in Flammability Testing and Application: Robert Bellair (The Dow Chemical Company)
Friday, May 14
AI for Process Optimization Reliability and Safety: Kathy Shell (aeSolutions)
Commonly Missed Overpressure Scenarios: Wahid Wakil (Smith & Burgess)
Analysis of Cybersecurity Risks for Proposed Remote CISTAR Facilities: Abhijit Talpade (CISTAR)
Analysis of Cybersecurity Risks for Proposed Remote CISTAR Facilities: David Moore (AcuTech)
Sustaining Effective Process Safety Programs: Jim Klein (ABS Consulting)
Purdue Process Safety and Assurance Center (P2SAC) Overview: Ray Mentzer (Purdue University)
PURDUE P2SAC-Safety shower and eyewash system: Xinyu Zhen (Purdue University)
Monday, May 17
Purdue Process Safety & Assurance Center (P2SAC) Overview - Pharma: Ray Mentzer (Purdue University)
Thermal Stability of Temozolomide (TMZ): Jeffrey Sperry (Vertex)
2020 Fall P2SAC Virtual Conference Presentations
December 1
Safety life cycle per IEC/ISA 61511: Prasad Goteti (Honeywell)
December 7
Welcome, overview, and history and mission/goals of P2SAC: Osman Basaran (Gedge Professor ChE and Academic Director P2SAC, Purdue)
Leadership in process safety, now more than ever: Trish Kerin (IChemE)
Sensing Dust Concentration through Imaging: Kingsly Ambrose (Associate Professor ABE, Purdue)
Prevention through design and heterogeneous catalysis: Raj Gounder (Larry and Virginia Faith Associate Professor ChE, Purdue)
December 10
Playing with fire? A safe and effective quench of Raney cobalt using aqueous sodium nitrate: Frank Dixon (GSK)
Assessing explosive properties in the pharmaceutical industry: Jeff Sperry (Vertex)
Safe operating space for handling hydrogen evolved during STAB hydrolysis: Bhoja Kandela (Lilly)
Explosion hazards associated with using DMSO and DMF in chemical reactions: Qiang Yang (Corteva)
Closing comments: Ray Mentzer (Professor of Practice ChE, Purdue)
2019 Fall P2SAC Conference Presentations
December 4, 2019
Industry-led Tutorials on Process Safety Agenda
Implementing Inherent Safety - David Moore, AcuTech
Unified Hazard Assessment - Ed Marszal, Kenexis
A Tutorial for the Risk Analysis Screening Tool (RAST) - Bruce Vaughen, CCPS
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handout Glossary
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handouts Tutorial.1
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handouts Tutorial.2
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handouts Tutorial.3
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handouts Tutorial.4
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handouts Tutorial.5
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handouts Tutorial.6
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handouts Tutorial.7
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handouts BP Case Study.1
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handouts BP Case Study.2
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handouts BP Case Study.3
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handouts BP Case Study.4
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handouts BP Case Study.5
- P2SAC 4 Dec RAST - Handouts BP Case Study.6
December 5, 2019
30 Years Later: Remembering the Explosion at Pasadena - Bruce Vaughen, CCPs, and Kenneth Bloch
Lithium Ion Battery Thermal Runaway - Ed Marszal, Kenexis
Process Safety at Vertex Pharmaceuticals (<5L Scale) - Jeffrey B. Sperry, Vertex
Reducing the human error impact on Safety Instrumented System (SIS) - Charles Fialkowski, Siemens
2019 Spring P2SAC Conference Presentations
May 7, 2019
P2SAC 2019 Spring Conference Agenda
Welcome and Opening Remarks - Ray Mentzer, Visiting Professor and Executive Director of P2SAC
Academic & Industrial Lab Safety Project - Sopuru Ezenwa, Purdue, PhD student
Managing Heat Accumulation at Scale Using a Kinetic Model - Li-Jen Ping, Johnson Matthey
May 8, 2019
The Challenge of Combustible Dust - Kenneth Tague, ADM
Kenexis Sponsored P2SAC Research - Ed Marszal et al.
May 9, 2019
Research on two-phase flows using two-fluid model - Subash Sharma, Purdue NE
Surfactants and DST effects in EOR/flow assurance - Jaeyub Chung, Purdue
2018 Fall P2SAC Conference Presentations
P2SAC Fall 2018 Conference Agenda
Welcome to the P2SAC Fall 2018 Conference - Dr. Osman Basaran
P2SAC Highlights - Dr. Ray Mentzer
Characterization of Reactive Chemical Hazards via Calorimetry - Sai Sathanapally
Driving PSM Performance Beyond KPI Metrics - Dr. Stewart W. Behie
Process Safety and the Front Line - Pearlman & Onofre, Marsh Risk Consulting
PMP Project Data Structure Standardization for PHA - Ed Marszal
The Role of Inertia in Coalescence of Drops in Liquid-Liquid Emulsions - Dr. Osman A. Basaran
Overview of Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - Dr. Zoltan Nagy
P2SAC Fall 2018 Faculty Pitches
Faculty Pitch: Electrocoalescence - Dr. Osman Basaran
Faculty Pitch: Modeling and Uncertainty Analysis of Dust Explosions - Dr. Zoltan Nagy
Faculty Pitch: Sensing Dust Concentration by Imaging - Dr. Kingsly Ambrose
2018 Spring P2SAC Conference Presentations
P2SAC Highlights - Dr. Ray Mentzer
Driving Chemical Change: the Chemical Safety Board's First 20 years - Dr Kristen Kulinowski (CSB)
Flow Assurance: Drop Coalescence in the Presence of Surfactants - Vishrut Garg (Basaran)
Early Phase Thermal Hazards Assessments at Eli Lilly - Dr. Stan Kolis (Lilly)
Inherently Safer Process Design - Dr. Jeff Sperry (Pfizer)
Minimum Ignition Energy (MIE) of Dust Clouds - Ashok Dastidar (Fauske & Associates)
Open Source Data Schema for Process Safety - Ed Marszal (Kenexis)
Proof Testing Safety Instrumented Systems - Prasad Goteti (Honeywell)
Real Time Release in Continuous Solid Dose Manufacturing - Dr. Qinglin Su (Nagy)
Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates - Joe Dettinger (SOCMA)
2017 Fall P2SAC Conference Presentations
Flow Assurance: Drop and Bubble Coalescence and Thin Film Rupture - Prof Osman Basaran
Introduction and Status Update – Prof Osman Basaran
P2SAC Highlights - Dr. Ray Mentzer
Prevention Through Catalyst Design for Applications in the Petrochemical Industry - Prof Raj Gounder
Prevention Through Design - Jonathan Bach, NIOSH
SIL Rated Communication Protocols - Prasad Goteti, Honeywell
Waste/Side Stream Testing Guidelines at Pfizer - Dr. Jeffrey Sperry, Pfizer
2017 Spring P2SAC Conference Presentations
P2SAC Research Program & Accomplishments - Dr. Ray Mentzer
Dust Explosion Test Methodologies - Dr. Ashok Dastidar, Fauske
Storage Tank Dike Design - Dr. George Harriott, Air Products
Key Performance Indicators for Installed SIS - Prasad Goteti, Honeywell
Robust Model-Based Control for Safe Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - Prof. Zolton Nagy
Chemistry & Catalysis of Nanoscale Materials - Prof. Raj Gounder
Latest Developments in Inherently Safer Technology - Mr. Brad Fuller, AcuTech
2016 Fall P2SAC Conference Presentations
Safer Catalytic Oxidations - Raj Gounder (PDF)
Advances in Chemical Reactivity Evaluation at Dow (PPTX)
Overview of Core UG Chemical Process Safety Course (PDF)
Fault Tolerant Control for Safe Plant Operation (PDF)