Browsing MKOPSC Theses and Dissertations by Title
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(2013-12-02)The existence of flammable aerosols creates fire and explosion hazards in the process industry. Due to the operation condition of high pressure circumstances, heat transfer fluids tend to form aerosols when accidental ...
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(2013-01-02)Operators have a crucial role in case of an emergency in a process facility. When an abnormality occurs in the process, the operator has a limited time to take corrective actions before system safety devices shut down the ...
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(2017-12-12)Hybrid dust-gas explosion is a persistent problem in process industries because of its ease of ignition as well as serious consequences. Ease of ignition is quantified by minimum ignition energy (MIE), which is associated ...
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(2014-08-06)In the last decade, nanomaterials have been increasingly researched as the result of the rapid development in nanotechnology due to novel properties and behavior of nanomaterials different from their bulk materials. However, ...
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(2017-06-29)Human information processing theories of workplace safety suggest that cognition is an antecedent of safety behavior. However, little research has directly tested cognitive variables as predictors of workplace safety within ...
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(2010-01-16)There are several databases collecting information on various types of incidents, and most analyses performed on these databases usually do not expand past basic trend analysis or counting occurrences. This research uses ...
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(2012-02-14)Flammability limit is a most significant property of substances to ensure safety of chemical processes and fuel application. Although there are numerous flammability literature data available for pure substances, for fuel ...
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(2013-07-29)Over the past years, catastrophic dust explosion incidents have caused numerous injuries, fatalities and economical losses. Dust explosions are rapid exothermic reactions that take place when a combustible dust is mixed ...
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(2012-07-16)Advancement in infrared imaging technology has allowed the thermal imaging to detect and visualize several gases, mostly hydrocarbon gases. In addition, infrared cameras could potentially be used as a non-contact temperature ...
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(2017-04-24)Corrosion of equipment is one of the most vital factors that results in serious process safety incidents. Though various types of equipment are subject to corrosion issues to different extent depending on the process ...
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(2012-02-14)Reactive hazard associated with chemicals is a major safety issue in process industries. This kind of hazard has caused the occurrence of many accidents, leading to fatalities, injuries, property damage and environment ...
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(2011-10-21)Incorporating consideration for safety issues while designing solvent processes has become crucial in light of the chemical process incidents involving solvents that have taken place in recent years. The implementation of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)The integration of the safety parameter into process design and optimization is essential. However, there is no previous work in integrating the fire and explosion index (F&EI) into design and optimization. This research ...
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(2015-11-30)Human factors (HFs) are important factors to the Macondo well blowout, but traditional risk assessment has not addressed them. Some common methodologies for offshore drilling risk assessment are fault tree, event tree and ...
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(2018-11-19)A holistic understanding of microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) requires investigation of the underlying microbiological, metallurgical and electrochemical mechanisms. MIC studies are typically conducted using ...
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(2018-08-01)The heavy dependence of the world on oil and gas for daily activities has made it highly vital that we do not lose them to incidents such as fires, spills, etc. In addition to economic losses, these incidents also result ...
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(2014-12-12)An existing flame speed bomb, which uses optical techniques to measure laminar flame speed, was employed to study the fundamental phenomena of flame propagation through a uniformly dispersed aerosol. In a previous thesis ...
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(2017-01-05)Low probability, high consequence events within the oil, gas and chemical industries can have devastating effects on employees, facilities, companies, and the surrounding communities. Incidents such as the Bhopal gas leak ...
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(2009-05-15)Ammonia refrigeration systems are widely used in industry. Demand of these systems is expected to increase due to the advantages of ammonia as refrigerant and because ammonia is considered a green refrigerant. Therefore, ...
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(2012-10-19)Federal regulation 49 CFR 193 and standard NFPA 59A require the use of validated consequence models to determine the vapor cloud dispersion exclusion zones for accidental liquefied natural gas (LNG) releases. For modeling ...