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Study of Dust - Gas Hybrid Mixture Explosions
(2015-08-25)
Hybrid mixtures are widely encountered in industries such as coal mines, paint factories, pharmaceutical industries, or grain elevators. Hybrid mixtures explosions involving dust and gas can cause great loss of lives and ...
Development of a Safety Management System for Drilling and Servicing Operations within OSHA Jurisdiction Area for Texas
(2015-11-05)
Workers of oil and gas extraction industries are exposed to different safety hazards, resulting in fatality rates seven times greater than that of the average U.S. worker. However, oil and gas drilling and servicing ...
LNG Suppression Foam Stabilized By Zirconium Phosphate Nanoplatelets
(2015-04-14)
In this work, a zirconium phosphate based universal foam stabilizer was developed to stabilize and improve performance of firefighting foam and high expansion liquid natural gas (LNG) suppression foam. With the world’s ...
Lessons Learned from Industrial Chemical Accidents: A Case Study of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Terminal, Jaipur, India
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2015)
Fire and explosion hazards in industrial storage units have gained a considerable attention in recent years. Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) storage terminal accident in Jaipur, India, is a recent example of Vapor Cloud ...
A Simplified PSM Guidance for Smaller Facilities using a Risk Based Approach
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2015)
“Safety matters at all levels”, even for small companies that may not be OSHA’s PSM level facilities, as long as they use highly hazardous chemicals which may be toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive. Incidents aren’t ...
Risk Management Strategy for Road Transportation of LNG
(2015-08-04)
A central aim of physical organic chemistry is the elucidation of reaction mechanisms. This knowledge is then usable in the rational control of reactions and the development of new synthetic methodology. A reaction mechanism ...