Browsing by Author "West, Harry"

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    • Accident History Database: An Opportunity 
      Mannan, Sam; West, Harry (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 mandated the development of regulations for the protection of workers, public, and the environment from catastrophic releases and chemical plant accidents. As a result, the US Environmental ...
    • Benchmarking Management of Change Practices in the Process Industry 
      West, Harry; Keren, N.; Mannan, M.S. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)
      Management of Change (MOC) is a relatively recent procedure that was mandated by the OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) regulation. The performance-oriented nature of the PSM regulation allows for a wide variety of ...
    • Computer-aided Fault Tree Synthesis for Quantitative Risk Assessments 
      Wang, Yanjun; West, Harry; Mannan, M. Sam (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)
      Fault tree analysis (FTA) has been used in the chemical process industry (CPI) for systematic safety and reliability analysis during the past decades. Once constructed, the fault tree can be of considerable value in ...
    • 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 ...