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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 following rules govern the granting of this award:
The Safetyand Health Division of AIChE is proud to announce that the 2008 Norton H. Walton/Russell L. Miller Award recipient is: John F. Murphy Mr. Murphy received his Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University and an MBA degree in Management from Central Michigan University. Mr. Murphy spent most of his working career at the Dow Chemical Company, where he rose from a senior production engineer through several successively more responsible positions to that of Senior Process Safety Associate. After retirement from Dow, he held positions at RMT, Inc., and Wilfred Baker Engineering, Inc., specializing in process safety and risk assessment. He then took a position as Chemical Incident Investigator at the U. S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. He has since retired and is now an independent process safety consultant. Mr. Murphy serves as a staff consultant to the Center for Chemical Process Safety, where he previously was a member of several CCPS subcommittees. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Process Safety Progress and a member of the AIChE Safety and Health Division Executive Committee, where he has held positions of Director, Vice-Chair, and Chair, from 1998 to 2001. He is an active member of the AIChE Area 11A Loss Prevention Symposium Programming Committee, having been Session Chair or Co-Chair numerous times, as well as 2003 Symposium Chair and Chair of the Committee in 2005. Mr. Murphy has also been a member of the National Fire Protection Association's Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code Committee and is a member of the Reactivity management Roundtable. He is also the author or co-author of a number of papers, including several published through AIChE presented at the AIChE Loss Prevention Symposium. The Safety and Health Division and the entire engineering community recognizes and appreciates Mr. Murphy's outstanding contributions to chemical process safety and his dedication to our profession. PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE
Please consider nominating a qualified candidate for 2009. Further information about the award can be found: Download Nomination Form (>Adobe PDF 9kB) The William H. Doyle Award is presented by the Loss Prevention Committee to the presenter of the best paper given at each Symposium. The committee considers both technical content and presentation effectiveness. The criteria are that the paper:
The WILLIAM H. DOYLE AWARD winner for 2008 is Lisa Long (currently with the US Department of Labor) for the paper “Vinyl Chloride Monomer Explosion” presented in the Case Histories and Lessons Learned session of the 41st Loss Prevention Symposium in Houston, TX, in April, 2007. The abstract of the paper follows: Vinyl Chloride Monomer Explosion Lisa A.Long (Speaker) U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) ABSTRACT On April 23, 2004 an explosion and fire at the Formosa Plastics Corporation, Illiopolis, Illinois (Formosa-IL) polyvinyl chloride (PVC) manufacturing facility killed five workers and severely injured three workers. The explosion and fire destroyed most of the reactor facility and adjacent warehouse and ignited PVC resins stored in the warehouse. The plume of smoke from the smoldering fire drifted over the community and resulted in an evacuation that lasted 48 hours. The facility has been closed down since the incident and no actions to rebuild have been taken. Vinyl chloride (VCM), a highly flammable chemical and known carcinogen, and the major component in the facility’s manufacturing process, was the primary fuel for the initial fire and explosion. Formosa-IL used VCM to manufacture a variety of PVC resins in twenty-four heated and pressurized reactors, Formosa-IL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Formosa plastics Corporation, USA (FPC USA), purchased the Illiopolis facility from Borden Chemical and operated it for approximately two years before the incident. This paper includes a discussion of the incident’s root and contributing causes and includes the CSB recommendations to prevent recurrence.
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