Browsing by Author "West, H.H."

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    • Abnormal Situation Management: a Process Dynamics Approach 
      Zhou, Y.; Kazantzis, N.; Mannan, M.; West, H.H.; Rogers, W.J. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)
      Abnormal situations are events that are outside of normal plant operating modes. It is estimated that the U. S. economy could reduce costs by $20 billion per year by avoiding abnormal situations. Modern control systems can ...
    • Process Safeguards and Risk Analysis for Offshore Proccessing 
      Landes, S.H.; West, H.H.; Stafford, E.M.; Mannan, M.S. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)
      Process safeguards have been traditionally designed into petroleum processing systems. The confined and remote nature of offshore petroleum added special conditions to process safeguard requirements. Increased regulatory ...
    • Use of Fault Trees for Quantitative Risk Assessment 
      Wang, Y.; Teague, T; West, H.H.; Mannan, M.S. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)
      There are many examples in industry where accidents have occurred because of process safeguard failures. With the increasing risk of accidents and approval of ISA- S84.01 and IEC 61508, people are making extensive efforts ...