Chemical industry program

MDL Information Systems, Inc. MDL provides modular software systems for managing chemical information, as weU as related molecular and reaction databases for use with the software. MDL s database management programs, MACCS-II and REACCS, provide access to compound and reaction databases and also have the capabiHty to manage user-created databases (37). Although MDL is not considered to be an on-line database vendor, it is mentioned here because of the value of its information products and services to the chemical industry. 

Center for Chemical Process Safety. In 1985, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers estabHshed the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) (New York). The objective of the CCPS was to help prevent catastrophic chemical accidents by compiling information on the latest scientific and engineering practices, safety programs, and adininistrative procedures of the larger members of the chemical industry, so that they can be shared with other (and particularly the smaller) members of the chemical and petrochemical industries. 

New regulatory initiatives (e.g., from OSHA and EPA) and industry programs (e.g., the Chemical Manufacturers Association s Responsible Cate effort) have stimulated increased attention to PSM. While compliance is certainly a requirement in deciding to implement PSM, it is by no means the only ben t. Rather, compliance is the baseline from which other benefits evolve. The quality and effectiveness of the system your company ultimately adopts could well depend on how persuasively those benefits are conveyed. Remember, at this point in your initiative, the goal is to win endorsement of a concept, not approval of a full-fledged plan. The core of that concept is the idea that PSM offers benefits over and above compliance with new regulations, or conformance with an industry initiative. 

The Chemical Manufacturers Association s Code of Management Practice for Process Safety is oriented toward the chemical industry, and describes the elements of a process safety management program as part of CMA s Responsible Care program. 

The chemical industry initiated the Responsible Care program... 

Firstly, there are technical reasons concerning catalyst and reactor requirements. In the chemical industry, catalyst performance is critical. Compared to conventional catalysts, they are relatively expensive and catalyst production and standardization lag behind. In practice, a robust, proven catalyst is needed. For a specific application, an extended catalyst and washcoat development program is unavoidable, and in particular, for the fine chemistry in-house development is a burden. For coated systems, catalyst loading is low, making them unsuited for reactions occurring in the kinetic regime, which is particularly important for bulk chemistry and refineries. In that case, incorporated monolithic catalysts are the logical choice. Catalyst stability is crucial. It determines the amount of catalyst required for a batch process, the number of times the catalyst can be reused, and for a continuous process, the run time. 

The tritium work at Surrey has been generously funded over many years by EPSRC (previously SERC and at the beginning, SRC), the EU, NATO and the chemical industry. The task of writing the current chapter was undertaken as part of the EU sponsored DIO COST Program (Innovative Methods and Techniques for Chemical Transformations). We are also grateful to Dr Norman De ath (Radleys Discovery Technologies) for the loan of the RDT 24 place PTFE carousel reaction station. 

As will be shown later, chemical plants are the safest of all manufacturing facilities. However, the potential always exists for an accident of catastrophic proportions. Despite substantial safety programs by the chemical industry, headlines of the type shown in Figure 1-1 continue to appear in the newspapers. 

Energy efficiency improvements, chemical industry, 10 136-137 Energy efficiency programs/activities, 10 158-166... 

Chemical-industry related literature addressing value chain management focuses on production and supply chain management as well as selectively procurement. Companies in the oil and chemical industries have been leaders for almost 50 years in the development and use of linear and mixed integer programming models to support decision-making at all levels of planning (Shapiro 2004). 

A joint EPA-industry program is proposed to make it easier for the chemical industry to comply with the PMN requirements of TSCA and hopefully encourage more new product development activity. This program includes a simplified reporting form promulgating exemptions for those classes of new chemicals... 

Table VI. Program to Minimize Negative Impact of TSCA on New Product Innovation by the Chemical Industry...

This can be done without great expense to manufacturers. And, finally, a well-organized and continuing joint industry-EPA program to help small business understand TSCA and ease the reporting burden would go a long way to encourage the development of new chemical products by the chemical industry. 

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