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Non-Conformance of Existing Pressure Relief Systems With Recommended Practices: A Statistical Analysis
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
This article presents a statistical analysis showing that the pressure relief systems on nearly half of the equipment in the oil, gas, and chemical industries lack adequate overpressure protection as defined by recognized ...
Process Safety Management in the Pipeline Industry: Parallels and Differences between the Pipeline Integrity Management (IMP) Rule of the Office of Pipeline Safety and the PSM/RMP Approach for Process Facilities
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
In 2001, the federal Office of Pipeline Safety promulgated its Pipeline Integrity Management Rule for hazardous liquid pipelines. A similar rule for gas pipelines is due in 2002. These rules derive from formal risk management ...
Blast Resistant Modular Buildings for the Petroleum and Chemical Processing Industries
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
There exists a need for blast resistant yet portable buildings to protect personnel temporarily assigned duties within explosively hazardous areas. Blast resistant portable buildings are a valuable asset for protection of ...
Modeling Aerosol Rainout -- Effect of Droplet MassTransfer
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
The AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety has coordinated research efforts aimed at characterizing and predicting the behavior of aerosols during accidental releases. Field tests designed to be used for validation of a ...
Automating Process Safety Management
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
In February of 1992 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promulgated the Process Safety Management Standard (PSM) for Highly Hazardous Chemicals. The stated objective of this standard is to prevent ...
Case Study: Anatomy of a Major Process Unit Explosion Investigation An Interdisciplinary Approach to Multiple Causes
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
This paper is a case study that describes an investigation of a large-scale chemical process unit explosion. The technical objective to determine what happened and why is driven by process safety and good engineering ...
Description of Hazardous Substances Events in the Manufacturing of Chemicals and Allied Products
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
This report describes events involving the acute release of hazardous substances from reported to the Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance (HSEES) system for 1993-2000. HSEES, a surveillance system maintained ...
API RP 579 (Fitness for Service) and Application in the Refining and Petrochemical Industries
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Guidelines for Analyzing and Managing the Security Vulnerability of Fixed Chemical Sites
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Throughout the industrial age, and particularly since the mid-1980's, engineers and the public have recognized that hazardous materials can destroy lives and property if handled improperly. Significant progress has been ...
A Framework for Designing Independent Protection Layer (IPL) Implementing Process Hazard Analysis to Process Safety Design
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Despite the clarity of Process Safety Design concept, the current safety design seems to be done using heuristics and experiences of process designers and safety engineers. Because of this, the quality of safety design is ...