Presented at AIChE 2017 Spring Meeting, and Global Congress on Process Safety 2017.
A core attribute of all safeguards is that they must be functional against the loss event in question and one of the essential elements of functionality is speed. How to determine the response time available for a given safeguard to complete its action is a common project question. Several instrumentation and controls design pitfalls should be avoided when specifying the response time. A variety of engineering practices, from basic to advanced, may be used to justify the selected value.

Presented at the 12th Global Congress on Process Safety and AIChE Spring Meeting – April 2016

Presented at the 12th Global Congress on Process Safety and AIChE Spring Meeting – April 2016

Published as “The Next Step Change in Process Safety” Chemical Engineering, October 2014.

Published as “When to Use Wireless in Safety Applications,” Control, July 2014.

Published Process Safety Progress, June 2014.
Presented at American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2013 Spring Meeting 9th Global Congress on Process Safety, San Antonio, Texas, April 19, 2013.

Presented at American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2014 Spring Meeting 10 Global Congress on Process Safety poster session, New Orleans, LA, April 2, 2014.

Presented at American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2013 Spring Meeting 9th Global Congress on Process Safety, San Antonio, Texas, April 19, 2013.

Published as “Centralized or Distributed process safety” in InTech.  November/December 2011

Published as “Kiss Off Safety System Myths” in Chemical Processing November 2011.