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EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Menthal Tank Fires
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Quantitative Risk Analysis - A Realistic Approach to Relief Header and Flare System Design
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
As process industry facilities increase production capacity and add processing units, existing relief headers and flare systems are frequently found to no longer meet the same conservative design criteria used for the ...
Benchmarking Process Safety Programs
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
The concept of informal benchmarking is a natural process of sharing and exchanging information on a subject of mutual interest among peers within and even outside one's company. However, only some corporations for significant ...
21st Century Land Warrior Technology for the 21st Century Refinery Operator: Abnormal Situation Management and the Digital Battlefield
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Each day, at refineries around the world, process operating personnel are putting on protective clothing and stepping out into a world consisting of the biggest chemistry set an individual could imagine. The role of operating ...
EVALUATION OF ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS CONDUCTED BY REGULATORY AUTHORITIES AND ADVISORY AGENCIES
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Due to the large quantities of hazardous chemicals, an accident at a chemical facility can have serious consequences. The owner/operator of a chemical facility has a great interest in investigating the cause of any accident ...
Incorporating Inherently Safer Design Practices into Process Hazard Analysis
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Inherently safer design concepts are particularly useful for risk reduction and are highly recognized and recommended by safety professionals as a first choice in process design practices. These concepts can be easily ...
Outlook for Human Factors and Impact on Inherent Safety for the Process Industries
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
It has been well understood by safety professionals that human factors greatly contribute to the success or failure of process safety programs in the chemical process industries as well as represent the area needing the ...
Case Study: Anatomy of a Major Process Unit Explosion Investigation An Interdisciplinary Approach to Multiple Causes
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
This paper is a case study that describes an investigation of a large-scale chemical process unit explosion. The technical objective to determine what happened and why is driven by process safety and good engineering ...
Integration of a Reactive Chemicals Program into the Process Hazard Analysis Process at The Dow Chemical Company
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Dow's Reactive Chemicals Program has been in place since 1967 and has been utilized globally by Dow to reduce the hazards associated with reactive chemical scenarios. With the evolution to a broader Process Hazard review, ...