Browsing by Subject "Process Safety"
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(2016-04-22)Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is a cryogenic liquid consisting predominantly of methane compressed to 1/600th of its gaseous volume for transportation. A release of LNG on water during marine operations can occur due to ...
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(2020-04-06)This report provides an overview of the Bhopal Gas disaster which occurred at the Union Carbide pesticide production plant in India in 1984. A large amount of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) was released from tank 610 within ...
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(2020-04-06)The Process failure that occurred at Buncefield site, Hertfordshire, UK was one of the landmark incidents in the process safety concerns of vapor cloud explosion. The vapor cloud that formed was due to overfilled large ...
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Cumulative Risk Assessment to Analyze Increased Risk Due to Impaired Barriers in Offshore Facilities (2019-04-09)Investigation of past incidents always reveal deficiencies that are not directly equipment-related, but may be non-technical in nature, such as procedural deviation, inadequate communication etc. Past risk assessment models ...
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(2020-04-14)With industry 4.0, a new era of the industrial revolution with a focus on automation, inter-connectivity, machine learning, and real-time data collection and analysis are emerging. The smart digital technology which includes ...
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(2020-04-09)The overall objective of this report is to document and analyze the series of events leading up to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon and the responses to the explosion with regard to the safety measures and protocols ...
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(2015-07-09)Most major process safety incidents are preventable and can be avoided as shown in several incident investigation reports. Moreover, these reports indicated that these incidents were certain to occur as shown from the ...
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(2015-11-05)Workers of oil and gas extraction industries are exposed to different safety hazards, resulting in fatality rates seven times greater than that of the average U.S. worker. However, oil and gas drilling and servicing ...
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(2022-05-24)Process safety of inter-connected equipment, such as heat exchanger networks (HEN), is paramount to the operation of chemical plants. While there exists considerable research on further improving HEN, little attention has ...
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(2021-04-22)Human error is a major recurrent theme in industrial incidents in the Hydrocarbon Processing Industry and Chemical Processing Industry. However, advances in the science of Human Factors have shown that human error is not ...
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(2020-04-09)Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) continues to be the economic and environmental fuel used all over the world and it is considered as the lifeblood of Qatar’s economic success. It can be defined as light hydrocarbon fraction ...
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(2014-11-13)The placement of detectors in mitigation systems is a difficult problem usually addressed in the industry via qualitative and semiquantative approaches. Simplifications are used to circumvent difficulties regarding problem ...
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Methods to Improve Process Safety Performance through Flange Connection Leak Prediction and Control (2014-08-08)Process safety is a task of preventing leaks. Leak prevention is critical because pressure vessels and piping assets in chemical plants are fabricated from materials which have limited corrosion resistance. When corrosive ...
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(2012-11-20)In this work, a source term model for estimating the rate of spreading and vaporization of LNG on land and sea is introduced. The model takes into account the composition changes of the boiling mixture, the varying ...
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(2018-04-30)Chemical industry and society always want to eliminate the damage to the environment and lower the casualty if an incident occurs. Finding a more efficient and effective way to achieve this goal is now more critical than ...
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(2017-10-09)This work aims to promote continuous manufacturing of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals by proper reactor design and operation. These synthetically important yet potentially hazardous chemistries are conventionally carried ...
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(2012-02-14)In the area of process safety, many efforts have focused on studying methods to prevent the transition of the state of the system from a normal state to an upset and/or catastrophic state, but many unexpected changes are ...
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(2013-05-21)The release of flammable and toxic chemicals in petrochemical facilities is a major concern when designing modern process safety systems. While the proper selection of the necessary types of gas detectors needed is important, ...
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(2016-08-08)Investigations of major catastrophes in process industries have revealed that deficiency of good safety culture is one of the underlying causes of such disasters. Not only has safety culture been recognized as a root cause, ...
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(2015-12-16)Reactive chemical hazards have been a significant concern in the chemical process industries. Reactive chemicals have caused many catastrophic disasters in industries that deal with the storage, handling or manufacturing ...