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The Division recognizes significant contributions
to the field of loss prevention and safety by bestowing the Norton H.
Walton/Russell L. Miller and the William H. Doyle Awards.
Norton H.
Walton/Russell L. Miller Award
The Safety and Health Division of
AIChE presents the Norton H. Walton / Russell L. Miller award in
recognition of outstanding chemical engineering contributions and
achievements in the areas of Loss Prevention, Safety, and Health.
Dr. Gary J. Powers is this year’s recipient of this prestigious award.
Dr. Powers is especially known for his pioneering research in process
risk assessment and process synthesis. His contributions to safety
analysis include new methods for rapidly and efficiently generating
detailed fault trees for quantitative risk assessment. He has developed
and tested strategies to assess process hazards and diagnose faults using
real-time data, using fault trees and digraph models to develop causal and
probabilistic relationships between sensed variables and process hazards.
Dr. Powers is considered an outstanding educator and has supervised more
than forty Masters and Doctoral Theses. He is the author of numerous
papers and books on process synthesis and risk assessment.
Dr. Powers received his Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from
the University of Michigan and his Doctorate from the University of
Wisconsin. His career includes industrial positions with Ethyl Corporation
and Dow Chemical Company. His academic career includes positions in the
Chemical Engineering Departments of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Powers has developed new theories and models for synthesis and
evaluation of high integrity operating procedures. More recently, he has
also worked on the synthesis of operating procedures for continuous and
batch processing facilities and has created software with his Ph.D.
students to test such models and assist designers in generating
high-integrity procedures and flowsheets. In addition, for chemical
process risk and reliability assessment, Dr. Powers has been developing a
theory for the verification of real-time control systems developed by
combining chemical engineering process models with software engineering
techniques. In particular, he has developed efficient symbolic
verification tests for stages in the control system that range from the
initial specification of the user’s requirements to final control code and
hardware. The theory has been tested on discrete event controllers. His
work on the formal verification of control systems and operating
procedures has also extended his contributions in process safety to
systems that involve human operations as well as computer control.
The Safety and Health Division and the entire engineering community
recognizes and appreciates Dr. Powers’ contributions to chemical process
safety and his dedication to our profession.
PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE
Norton H.
Walton/Russell L. Miller Award
1987 |
Walter B.
Howard |
1988 |
Eugene S.
DeHaven |
1990 |
Stanley S.
Grossel |
1991 |
William J.
Bradford |
1993 |
T. A.
Ventrone |
1994 |
Gui
LeGendre |
1998 |
Robert
Ormsby |
1999 |
Richard F.
Schwab |
2000 |
John A.
Davenport |
2001 |
Joseph F.
Louvar |
2002 |
Daniel Crowl |
2003 |
Laurence Britton |
2004 |
Henry Febo |
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William H. Doyle Award
The William H. Doyle Award is presented to the presenter of the best paper given at each Symposium by the Loss
Prevention Committee. The committee considers both technical content and
presentation effectiveness. The criteria are that the paper:
- Must be clear and well presented. Audio-visual aids must be clear
and effective.
- Should have wide applicability to loss prevention efforts in the
chemical industry.
- Adds substantial knowledge to the field of loss prevention.
- Engages and stimulates the intellect of the audience.
- Would cause BILL DOYLE to rise to his feet, ask a penetrating
question, make decisive comments, and then lead the applause.
The WILLIAM H. DOYLE AWARD winner for 2004 is Peter N. Lodal for the
paper “Distant Replay. What Can Re-Investigation of a 40-year-old Incident
Tell” presented at the 38th Loss Prevention Symposium in New Orleans in
April, 2004. The abstract of the paper follows.
Distant Replay
What Can Re-Investigation of a
40-year-old Incident Tell
Peter N. Lodal
Technical Fellow
Plant Protection Technical
Services
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport Operations
Kingsport,
TN
ABSTRACT
On October 4, 1960, Eastman Chemical Company suffered the worst
accident in its 83-year history, when an aniline manufacturing facility
exploded. Sixteen people were killed, and more than 400 injured as a
result of the blast. This paper analyzes the incident and its aftermath
using both historical records and modern analytical techniques. The
results provide useful insight into both the technical and cultural safety
issues raised, as well as valuable information that can be applied to
current processes.
PREVIOUS WINNERS OF
THE
WILLIAM H. DOYLE AWARD
| 1985 |
James
McQuaid |
Trials in
Dispersion of Heavy Gas Clouds |
| 1986 |
Trevor A.
Kletz |
Inherently Safer
Plants |
| 1987 |
Laurence G.
Britton |
Thermal
Stability of Ethylene at Elevated Pressures |
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Ian
Swift |
The Performance
of Low Pressure Vents |
| 1988 |
Robert A.
Mancini |
The Use (and
Misuse) of Bonding for Control of Static Ignition |
| 1989 |
Dean K.
Wilson |
Failure Mode
Management: A Loss Prevention Philosophy for Programmable Logic
Controllers |
| 1990 |
Laurence G.
Britton |
Combustion
Hazards of Silane and Monosilicon Chlorides |
| 1991 |
Daniel A.
Crowl |
Using
Thermodynamic Availability to Determine the Energy of
Explosions |
| 1992 |
A. M.
Dowell |
Flashback from
Waste Gas Incinerators into Air Supply Piping |
| 1993 |
J. E. S.
Venart |
To BLEVE or not
to BLEVE: Anatomy of a Boiling Liquid-Expanding Vapor
Explosion |
| 1994 |
Norman E.
Scheffler |
Vapor
Suppression of Chemicals Using Foam |
| 1995 |
T. C.
Hofelich |
Compatibility
Determination Procedures to Comply with Legislation
HM-183 |
| 1996 |
Ronald G.
Eierman |
Improving
Inherent Safety with Seal-less Pumps |
| 1997 |
Franco
Tamanini |
Modeling of
Panel Inertia Effects in Vented Dust Explosions |
| 1998 |
Norbert
Jaeger |
Determination,
Prevention, and Mitigation of Potential Hazards Due to the Handling
of Powders during Transportation, Charging, Discharging and
Storage |
| 1999 |
Dennis C.
Hendershot |
Peroxide Drum
Explosion and Fire |
| 2000 |
Peggy
Westfall-Lake |
Human Factors:
Preventing Catastrophic Human Error in 24-Hour
Operations |
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Chad V.
Mashuga |
Flammability
Zone Prediction Using Calculated Adiabatic Flame
Temperatures |
| 2001 |
Angela E.
Summers, PE |
Using
Instrumented Systems for Overpressure Protection |
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Peter N.
Lodal |
Case History:
Steam Line Rupture at Tennessee Eastman Division
11/3/98 |
| 2002 |
Robert W. Johnson
Thomas L. Oakey |
Combustion
Safeguards Test Intervals-Risk Study and Industry
Survey |
| 2003 |
Dennis C.
Hendershot |
Connections: How
a Pipe Failure Resulted in Resizing Vessel Emergency Relief Systems |
| 2004 |
Erdem A.
Ural |
Airplane Fuel
Tank Explosions |
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