Browsing MKOPSC Process Safety Symposium by Title
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)Mist or aerosol explosions present a serious hazard to process industries. Heat transfer fluids are widely used in the chemical process industry, are flammable above their flash points, and can cause explosions. Though the ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)In 1999, the Risk-Based Explosives Safety Criteria Team (RBESCT) developed the Universal Risk Scales (URS) to assist in the job of selecting appropriate criteria for defining “How safe is safe enough?” To answer this ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)Incident investigation standards and performance criteria continue to improve. In recognition, the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) undertook a major project to upgrade and update the Incident Investigation ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)The devastating consequences of aerosol/mist explosions have been widely documented, and there are currently efforts to understand the mechanisms of the formation and explosion of such aerosols. Heat transfer fluids are ...
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Use of Combustible Gas Detectors in Safety Instrumented Systems – A Practical Application Case Study (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)A risk assessment carried out on a chemical process identified a flammable liquid release as a potential hazard. A flammable liquid is used as a solvent in the process and is present in a dryer vessel during normal operations. ...
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Use of Failure Rate Databases and Process Safety Performance Measurements to Improve Process Safety (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)In this paper, a methodology is proposed to combine process safety performance measurements techniques, decision-making strategies, applications of private and generic databases, reliability calculations, and benchmarking ...
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(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 ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)The TWA flight 800 accident occurred on July 17, 1996 just outside New York City shortly after take-off. The airplane desintegrated as a result of an “explosion” and 230 people were killed. The investigation concentrated ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)Human error and its contribution to occupational accidents and incidents has received considerable research attention in recent years. However, more research is needed into the validity, practicality, and functionality of ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)Process Safety Management (PSM) involves a number of key elements from a technical prospective ‘Plant’, operational management ‘Processes’ and the human element ‘People’. All major incidents can be traced back to the failure ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)Utilizing statistically valid community opinion surveys (polling) has long been a design and decision tool in political campaigns. Politicians have recognized the value of keeping a "pulse" on community opinion and as a ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)Like many companies, Honeywell estimates the probability of control system problems and safeguard layer faults using the available reliability data. Probably like others, we have wondered how accurate these “standard ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)To maximize corporate value, companies should not view environmental, health, and safety (EHS) as a cost of doing business, but as a potential source of economic value. Establishing value includes determining the risk ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)The evaluation of reactive hazards is necessary for the safe working of the chemical process industries. An integral aspect of reactive hazard testing is the screening of chemicals to focus experimental efforts on the more ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)In today’s world, organizations are constantly being challenged by the fast changing economic environment in which the need to remain competitive is the key to ultimate survival. In the downstream oil sector, these challenges ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes are widely used for gas dispersion studies on offshore installations. The majority of these codes use single-block Cartesian grids with the porosity/distributed-resistance (PDR) ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)Vapor Cloud Explosions (VCE), an ever-present threat to the petroleum refining industry, create hazards to employees, equipment and production capabilities. To mitigate the effect of these hazards, effective designs for ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)Consequence modelling software for accidental releases of flammable or toxic chemicals to the atmosphere includes discharge modelling, atmospheric dispersion modelling and evaluation of flammable and toxic effects: - First ...