Browsing MKOPSC Theses and Dissertations by Title
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(2011-10-21)Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is flammable when it forms a 5 – 15 percent volumetric concentration mixture with air at atmospheric conditions. When the LNG vapor comes in contact with an ignition source, it may result in ...
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(2012-10-19)Corrosion is the most important mechanical integrity issues the petrochemical industry has to deal with. While significant research has been dedicated to studying corrosion, it is still the leading cause of pipeline failure ...
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(2011-08-08)The research focuses on the critical review and prediction of flash points of high molecular weight compounds used mainly in the specialty chemical area. Thus far this area of high molecular weight specialty chemicals has ...
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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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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Process monitoring in the chemical and other process industries has been of great practical importance. Early detection of faults is critical in avoiding product quality deterioration, equipment damage, and personal injury. ...
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(2017-05-30)As chemical process plants have become more involved and complex, the likelihood of hazardous incidents has increased simultaneously. That is, the more complex a facility’s systems, the more factors engineers must consider. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2002)Decision Support Systems (DSS) find extensive applications in business enabling industry managers to make intelligent risk decisions. Although widely used in business applications, the application of DSS to Process Safety ...
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(2016-05-27)The release of hazardous chemicals poses a threat to individuals in the area of a release and to responders who attempt to limit the damage of the release. For a liquid phase spill, the most common decontamination technology ...
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(2016-04-06)Most of the previous work has been guided towards the understanding of this phenomenon under a uniform obstacle distribution, i.e., same obstacle shape, blockage ratio, and gap between obstacles. However, industrial ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1999)Production, transportation, and storage of hazardous chemicals represent potential risks to the environment, the public, and the producers themselves. The release to the atmosphere of materials that may form mixtures denser ...
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(2010-12-07)Following several terrorist attacks that have occurred during this decade, there is an urgent need to develop new technologies for the detection of highly energetic materials that can represent an explosive hazard. In an ...
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(2014-04-18)Alkylpyridine N-oxides are important intermediates in the pharmaceutical industry. The N-oxides are produced via the homogeneously catalyzed N-oxidation of the respective alkylpyridines using hydrogen peroxide as the ...
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(2012-02-14)Hazard communication is an essential part of a comprehensive safety plan, especially for those facilities that contain reactive chemicals. There are a variety of means of communicating a chemical hazard, but one of the ...
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(2019-11-04)With the rapid development of chemical process plants, the safe storage of hazardous chemicals become an essential topic. Several chemical warehouse incidents related to fire and explosion have been reported recently. ...
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(2019-02-08)Due to the operational complexities of drilling, completion and well intervention activities, it is often quite challenging to predict a potential blowout scenario timely and efficiently. In drilling operations, blowouts ...
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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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DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF PROCESS SAFETY INDICES IN EARLY DESIGN PHASE OF CHEMICAL SUPPLY CHAIN (2018-08-06)Supply chain network design and optimization are very important in decision making, which gives the ability to stakeholders to assess the massive supply chains to increase profit while minimizing risks. Risks in supply ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)There has been growing public concern regarding the threat to people and environment from industrial activities, thus more rigorous regulations. The investigation of almost all the major accidents shows that we could ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)Inherent safety has been recognized as a design approach useful to remove or reduce hazards at the source instead of controlling them with add-on protective barriers. However, inherent safety is based on qualitative ...
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Development of a relational chemical process safety database and applications to safety improvements (Texas A&M University, 2000)Industrial accidents still show a major concern to both the public and the environment. It has been a governmental objective to minimize these accidents. Several rules and regulations have emerged to reduce the impacts ...