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High Resolution Quantitative Risk Analysis - An Advanced Management Tool
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Typical deliverables of a classical quantitative risk analysis (or QRA) effort are individual risk and societal risk data. Individual risk within the context of such a classical QRA is defined as the frequency or probability ...
MODELING INDOOR DISPERSION OF AEROSOLS OR VAPORS AND SUBSEQUENT VENTED FIRE OR EXPLOSION
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Considerable developmental work has gone into modeling dispersion of accidental outdoor releases; less has been applied to indoor releases. Indoor dispersion is characterized by the influence of a ventilation system and ...
Process Hazard Analysis Strategies for the Life Cycle of a Grassroots Project
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
During the past three years Stone & Webster has performed a variety of process hazard analyses (PHAs) on projects for a variety of major clients, each with a different corporate PHA performance requirement. This paper ...
Effects of Obstacle Geometry on Jet Mixing for Releases of Silane
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Releases of silane into air and the effects of obstacles were modeled with the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code, FLUENT. First the CFD code simulated the release of a free turbulent jet of silane into air to assure ...
Menthal Tank Fires
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
EVALUATION OF ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS CONDUCTED BY REGULATORY AUTHORITIES AND ADVISORY AGENCIES
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Due to the large quantities of hazardous chemicals, an accident at a chemical facility can have serious consequences. The owner/operator of a chemical facility has a great interest in investigating the cause of any accident ...
Outlook for Human Factors and Impact on Inherent Safety for the Process Industries
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
It has been well understood by safety professionals that human factors greatly contribute to the success or failure of process safety programs in the chemical process industries as well as represent the area needing the ...
Use of Fault Trees for Quantitative Risk Assessment
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 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 ...
Process Safeguards and Risk Analysis for Offshore Proccessing
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Process safeguards have been traditionally designed into petroleum processing systems. The confined and remote nature of offshore petroleum added special conditions to process safeguard requirements. Increased regulatory ...
COMPUTER AIDED FIRE SAFETY SYSTEMS IN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)