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The 15th Global Process Safety Conference in China
 
From March 31 to April 4, 2019, the 15th Global Process Safety Conference (2019 AIChE Spring Meeting and 15th Global Congress on Process Safety) was grandly held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, with more than 3,000 delegates.
 

Figure 1 The venue of the Global Process Safety Conference
 
China University of Petroleum (East China) Technology Center for Safety, Environmental Protection and Energy Conservation (American Institute of Chemical Engineers Chemical Process Safety Center-China Branch) and China Chemical Safety Association continue to jointly hold the China branch of the Global Process Safety Conference. The meeting was divided into two stages. In the first stage, the director of the center (CCPS-CS director) Professor Zhao Dongfeng served as the chairperson and Meng Yifei served as the vice chairperson. The second phase was chaired by Dr. Zhaodong Lu, a senior process safety technology expert of Wanhua Group, and Fenglei Han, a teacher from the center, served as the vice chair. China University of Petroleum (East China), China Chemical Safety Association, Taiwan Yunlin University of Science and Technology, China National Petroleum Corporation, China Petrochemical Corporation, Yantai Wanhua Group, Yonsei University, Dow, Texas A&M University, etc. Nearly 200 domestic and foreign expert representatives from the unit attended and participated in this meeting.
 
Figure 2 Professor Zhao Dongfeng presided over the China branch venue
 
The theme of the China branch was "Process Safety in China", and a total of 6 experts gave on-site reports. Chen Yifeng, Vice President of Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd. gave a report on "How Safety Culture Drives the Improvement of Process Safety Competencies in Wanhua", introducing the production of Wanhua Group The general situation, development history and status quo, the application of safety culture in Wanhua Group and the good results achieved have demonstrated the important role of safety culture in chemical companies to the global chemical safety industry.


Figure 3 Chen Yifeng, Vice President of Wanhua Group, reads the conference report
 
Niu Yun, director of the PetroChina Institute of Safety and Environmental Protection Technology, gave a titled "How can we use Artificial Intelligence technology to assist process safety? Opportunities and Prospects?" and talked about the development of AI technology. Development, application in the chemical industry, and application opportunities and prospects in chemical process safety management.
 

Figure 4 Niu Yun, director of the CNPC Safety and Environmental Technology Research Institute, made a conference report
 
Professor Hong Zhaojia from Yunlin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan introduced the Systems-Theoretic Accident Model with the topic "Analysis of Shell Moerdijk Accident by Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes and Bowtie Analysis".
 

Figure 5 Professor Hong Zhaojia from Yunlin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan made a report
 
The report "How to continuously improve the safety performance of chemical industry in China" by Vice President Jiu Jiangbo of Qingdao Ousaisi Environmental and Safety Technology Co., Ltd., from the accidents of domestic chemical companies in recent years Based on statistics, the difficulties and problems in the safety performance of domestic chemical companies were classified and counted. It was pointed out that it was personnel management, accident management, potential hazard management and system safety management. In this regard, it was proposed that the concept of safety management should be rebuilt from risk. Measures such as safety management, accident investigation, and overall system management.
 

Figure 6 Jiu Jiangbo, Vice President of Qingdao Ossyth Company, made a report on the conference
 
The report by Julie Kister from Air Production, "Lesson Learned from a Dust Hazards Analysis at Joint Venture Site in China" talked about the opportunities and opportunities for Sino-foreign cooperation in the DHA analysis of Sino-foreign joint ventures.
 

Fig. 7 Julie Kister of Air Production made a conference report
 
Li Chuankun’s report, “Leakage Detection of Ethylene Spherical Tanks Based on Convolution Neural Network”, by Li Chuankun, Qingdao Safety Engineering Research Institute of Sinopec, explained the principle of digital image analysis and its application in chemical industry. An important role in safe production.
 

Figure 8 Li Chuankun, Qingdao Safety Engineering Research Institute of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, made a report
 
Through the form of the report, the experts have fully communicated, exchanged and shared with the global chemical safety counterparts, and also demonstrated the relevant achievements and technical strength of China's chemical process safety. The successful holding of this sub-venue meeting further enhanced the center's reputation in the field of international chemical safety and environmental protection, increased the center's influence in the domestic chemical process safety management industry, and injected a strong impetus into the center's continuous development and growth.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of this conference, four teachers from the center, Zhao Dongfeng, Meng Yifei, Han Fenglei, and Jiu Jiangbo participated in the hydrogen energy safety work kick-off meeting and seminar organized by the AIChE Hydrogen Energy Safety Center, and discussed the development of hydrogen energy safety with relevant international industry experts Exchanges with challenges and preliminary connections were established, laying a good foundation for the center to comply with the national hydrogen energy development strategy and carry out hydrogen energy safety application technology research.
 

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