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(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 ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)Vapor cloud explosions (VCEs) can cause significant damage to nearby buildings, facilities and infrastructure with potential loss of life and significant business interruption, so the accuracy of predicting blast loads on ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)Corporations have been consistently involved in the areas of process safety, people safety and risk management for several decades. These corporations have witnessed major and minor incidents, and their learnings have been ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)This presentation will look at moving beyond simply acquiring data from small incidents and near misses to addressing common mistakes made following collection of this data. Recording relevant and accurate data from small ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)A safety instrumented system (SIS) is used to implement one or more Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs) which are designed to reduce the likelihood of hazardous risk by decreasing the frequency of unwanted events (accidents). ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)Adapting the requirements of IEC 61511 to a batch system can be frustrating, particularly for multi-product units. While a Safety Instrumented System (SIS) for continuous operation is often a straightforward detect-decide-act ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)The 2016 edition of IEC 61511-1: 2016 added two new requirements regarding the security of safety instrumented systems (SIS). The first requirement states that “a security risk assessment shall be carried out to identify ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)A principal mindset among organizational leaders and managers is the belief that the end goal of attaining human reliability is to achieve flawless performance of job tasking. Despite persistent efforts to enforce compliance, ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)Design of process modules, piperacks and occupied structures for accidental fire loads is critical for a facility’s operation, emergency planning, safe shutdown and evacuation strategy. In the oil and gas industry, hydrocarbon ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)Well written procedures are an integral part of any industrial operation for safe operation, managing risks and continuous improvement. Although the importance of procedures is recognized by all industries and regulators, ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)Much focus within process safety and process safety education is on the basic engineering phase where the principles of process safety and inherently safer design can be incorporated into the process design. The culmination ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)It is not uncommon to find that Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) scenarios and Process Safety Valve (PSV) calculation cases do not align. The intent of PHA studies, typically performed using the Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)Fire and explosion incidents related to aerosol occur occasionally throughout the industries. However, its hazards are relatively overlooked due to the misconception of that liquids are safe below their flash point. As ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)On 23:57 July 31st, 2014, a catastrophic vapor explosion occurred in the downtown of Kaohsiung city. The incident was initiated from a leak of an underground pipeline transporting pressurized propylene liquid. Analysis of ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)The article aims demonstrate the importance of reliability mapping for decrease risks of shutdown and accident in critical activities. For mapping is needed to know the operational context, considering culture and deviations ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)The principles of risk, danger, and sociability depend on cognitive limitations and the social work environment. Subjects are linked in binaries or multiples where they can establish causal relationships or influences that ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)During detail engineering project for EG3 (Ethylene Glycol Plant no.3) for Jubail United Petrochemical Company, a SABIC affiliate, the writer found oxygen feed header from Gas Plant pipeline laydown on pipe rack instead ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)This presentation reports on a case study from the financial sector with application to challenges in the field of process safety. Banks collect massive amounts of data from routine financial transactions. Some of the data ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)Standard operating procedures (SOPs) are a vital element of everyday operations in chemical process industries. Incident investigations also indicate that a majority of adverse events in the processing operations are ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)Twenty-one petroleum and petrochemical companies are currently sponsoring a project to develop risk- based inspection (RBI) methodology for application in the refining and petrochemical industry. This paper describes that ...