WP Loss Prevention

Deadline for submssion of abstracts for the next Loss Prevention Symposium in Florence, Italy has been extended to March 25th, 2012!

The purpose of the Working Party on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries of the European Federation of Chemical Engineers is to promote safety and loss prevention in the process industries, at a European level, by exchanging information and stimulating the development of new methods and the dissemination of data, which may reduce the risk of fires, explosions and loss of containment in our industries.

Submit your abstract for next symposium in Florence

The 14th EFCE Symposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries, will be held on 12-15 May 2013, in Florence, Italy. The symposium, promoted by the EFCE Working Party on Loss Prevention, is the EFCE Event #707 and is organized by AIDIC, The Italian Association of
Chemical Engineering.

The organizers want the 2013 Loss Prevention symposium to be a market place for
presenting new scientific results and concepts
exchanging of best practices
learning from experience and case studies
The full set of accepted papers of LP2013 Symposium will be published in hard copy into "Chemical Engineering Transactions" http://www.aidic.it/cet . The quality of this publication is valued by ISBN & ISSN numbers, referenced by Scopus and Thomson Reuters citation indexes (ISI Web of Knowledge, conference proceedings).
Details on the symposium and the call for paper may be found at: http://www.aidic.it/lp2013, and abstracts can now be submitted. Read more -->

Recent WP News

Extended deadline for abstract to LP 2013 The organizers have extended the deadline for submission of abstracts for the 2012 Loss Prevention symposium until March 25th, 2012. The deadline extension is because the final abstract review will ...
Posted Mar 4, 2012 6:35 AM by Webadmin Loss Prevention

HANHAZ2012 National Symposium on Handling and Hazards of Materials in Industry WP Member Professor Rosa Nomen, who is dean of the IQS School of Engineering in Barcelona, Spain bring to your attention the National Symposium on Handling and Hazards of Materials ...
Posted Jan 11, 2012 12:46 AM by Webadmin Loss Prevention

83rd WP Loss Prevention business meeting to be at industrial site The WP chairman has confirmed, that the 83rd WP Loss Prevention business meeting will be 24-25th April, 2012 at Bayer Leverkusen in Germany. Details about venue and agenda ...
Posted Nov 28, 2011 9:18 AM by Webadmin Loss Prevention

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First EFCE Excellence Award in Process Safety

At the recent Loss Prevention symposium in Brugge the first EFCE Process Safety Award was awarded to a greek Ph.D. student at a reception in the old town hall of Bruges Monday evening af the first day of technical sessions.

The recipient of the award was Dr. Spyros Sklavounos, who was a Ph.D. student of Fotis Rigas at the School of Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece.

Mr. Sklavounos' work has among other things resulted in the following publication: "Computer-aided modeling of the protective effect of explosion relief vents in tunnel structures" published in Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 19 (2006) pp.621-629 Read more -->