Browsing State Agencies by Type "Papers"

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    • Containing Hydrogen Deflagrations 
      Schmidt, Michael S. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)
      Schroeder and Holtappels (2005) published data on the explosion characteristics of hydrogen-air mixtures, looking at the effect of pressure and temperature on upper and lower explosive limits and the effect of pressure, ...
    • Control Room Design: Best Practices and Lessons Learned From a Multi-Disciplinary Perspective 
      Lane, Mary Ann; Edmonds, Janette (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)
    • Correlation of Safety Leadership and Safety Culture 
      Israni, Kumar (Chris) (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)
      Diversity in today’s workforce is evident due to different cultures. As a result, innovation thrives, which facilitates knowledge exchange and encourages the development in industry practices. Production also benefits from ...
    • Cost-Based Analysis for Risk Reduction 
      DuPoint, Donald (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)
      Owner/Operators are inundated with recommendations generated from various hazard identification and risk assessment studies. While there are a plethora of qualified engineering firms, consultants, and in-house specialists ...
    • Creating a PSM Environment 
      Moore, David (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)
    • Critical Mitigation Element Methodology: An Approach to Achieving Consistent Risk Evaluation Results 
      Behie, Stewart; Lu, Yuan; Buxton, George; Slezak; Schambach, Harold (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)
      This paper introduces Critical Mitigation Element (CME) Methodology, an Occidental Oil and Gas Corporation (OOG) probability analysis methodology internally developed for the purpose of achieving consistent results when ...
    • The Critical Transition Length from Chapman-Jouguet Deflagrations to Detonations 
      Saif, Mohamed; Pekalski, A.; Levin, M.; Radulescu, M.I. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)
      In the process of deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) in reactive gases, the flame typ- ically accelerates first to the choked flame condition (known as a Chapman-Jouguet deflagra- tion), where it propagates at the ...
    • Crosswalk of Human Reliability Methods for Offshore Oil Incidents 
      Boring, Ronald L.; Park, Jooyoung; Ulrich, Thomas A. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)
      Human reliability analysis (HRA) has long been employed in nuclear power applications to account for the human contribution to safety. HRA is used qualitatively to identify and model sources of human error and quantitatively ...
    • Crude Oil by Rail Accidents: Cross-industry Learning for High Hazard Sectors 
      Posta, Gabor (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)
      A sharp increase in fracking in 2008 sent crude oil production in North America soaring, leading to production quickly outgrowing existing pipeline capacity and record volumes of crude oil being hauled by rail. The ...
    • CSB Investigation of the West (Texas) Fertilizer Fire and Explosion 
      Sutherland, Vanessa Allen (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)
      On April 17, 2013, a fire and explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company (WFC), a fertilizer blending, retail, and distribution facility in West, Texas. The violent detonation fatally injured 12 emergency responders ...
    • Cyber Threats in the Chemical and Process Industry 
      Matteini, Anita; Tugnoli, Alessandro; Antonioni, Giacomo; Salzano, Ernesto; Cozzani, Valerio (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)
    • Cybersecurity Consideration in Process Hazard Analysis 
      Cormier, Addie; Ng, Christopher (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)
      Traditional process hazard analysis (PHA), such as Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) studies, typically includes a systematic assessment of initiating events and consequences affecting process facilities. Relationships among ...
    • Data Analytics & Data Management (DA&DM) Solutions to Manage Pipeline Integrity and Comply with New PHMSA Regulations 
      Paula, Henrique; Arendt, Steve; Mowrer, Matt (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)
      The potential of Data Analytics (DA) has become apparent because of the ‘Big Data’ phenomenon. Business analytics is becoming commonplace where companies use historical business performance data and predictive modeling to ...
    • Data Driven Risk Based Process Safety – Why Care, How to Get It and How to Keep It 
      Lapeyrouse, Keith; McKinley, Matt (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)
    • Data Required for Predicting Reactive Chemcial Pathways 
      West, Harry (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      Extensive reactivity data for a particular mixture of chemicals at the potential operating conditions of a process under consideration are rarely available. The impact of vessel size, catalytic contaminants, and other ...
    • A decade of research collaboration on safety climate at Texas A&M University 
      Bergman, Mindy E.; Payne, Stephanie C. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)
      Over the past decade, faculty in the Department of Psychology who specialize in industrial-organizational (IO) psychology1 have collaborated with the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center on the topic of safety climate2 ...
    • Decision Support for Dynamic Barrier Management for Offshore Operations 
      Nelson, William R.; Ahluwalia, Amar; Matuszak, Mia (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)
      Effective safety barrier management is a fundamental principle for prevention and mitigation of major accidents in offshore drilling and production operations. Barrier management methods such as bow tie diagrams are commonly ...
    • Deficiencies Frequently Encountered in the Promotion of Process Safety Information 
      Liaw, Horng-Jang (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)
      Process Safety Information (PSI) is one of the fourteen elements of Process Safety Management (PSM). The findings of the PSI element in the PSM audit for more than 50 plants in Taiwan were reported in this manuscript, and ...
    • Demonstrating the effectiveness of non-metallic riser flange covers for diverting leaks and jet fires using computational fluid dynamics 
      Straw, M. P.; Kay, E.; Rees, S. J.; Watson, P.; Graham, A. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)
      The current oil and gas industry market conditions put greater emphasis of finding cost-effective design solutions while maintaining the same emphasis on process safety. Riser flange covers potentially provide a weight-saving ...
    • Designing Effective Emergency Response Plans: Lessons learned from investigating two major incidents 
      Davis, Scott (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)
      Emergency response plans are an essential, yet oftentimes overlooked, layer of protection for facilities where all other layers of protection failed to prevent an incident. While catastrophic accidents such as large releases ...