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    • Explosive Decompression And Other O-Ring Related Issues For Turbomachinery Service- Some User Guidance 
      Carmody, Chris (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
      Flexible sealing elements, typically elastomeric O-rings are commonly used to contain fluids within pressurized cavities of turbomachinery at the interfaces between adjoining components. All too often the only selection ...
    • Export Gas Compressors Verecon Vibration Analysis 
      Sivapuram, Chandra; Stewart, Rogan; DeGregorio, Basso (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
    • Extended safe operation of critical machine with PdM technology for Environment & Reliability Targets 
      Chandajkar, Abhay (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
    • Extending Quality Management to Utility Costs 
      Holmes, W. A. (Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 1994-04)
      By installing permanent instrumentation and linking it to the appropriate software, a Utility Cost Management Information System, can be created which will identify where, when and how energy is used in a facility on a ...
    • External Fire Impacts on the Interior Temperature of a Building 
      Ishii, Benjamin R.; Jimenez, Christian (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)
      Facility siting studies are an important part of process safety, and are required for facilities that fall under OSHA’s PSM program. Facility siting is frequently interpreted as performing a building siting study which ...
    • Extraction Steam Controls at EPLA-W 
      Brinker, J. L. (Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2004)
      ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge site encompasses a world-scale refinery, chemical plant and third party power station. Historically, inflexible and unreliable control systems on two high-pressure, extracting/condensing steam ...
    • Extrinsic Safety Systems 
      Summers, Angela E. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)
      Everything dies, breaks, or runs out of gas. Everything. This is especially true for extrinsic safety systems. In contrast to intrinsic safety in which the process is designed to be inherently safe (1), extrinsic safety ...
    • Exxon Chemical's Coal-Fired Combined Cycle Power Technology 
      Guide, J. J. (Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 1985-05)
      Exxon Chemical's Central Engineering Division has recently developed and patented CAT-PAC for Industrial Cogeneration and Utility Power Plants. It involves the marriage of a conventional direct pulverized coal-fired ...
    • ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Chemicals: Energy Optimization in a Turndown Environment 
      Geier, E.; Panaev, L.; Waite, R.; Eiklor, L. (Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2010-05)
    • ExxonMobil Global Energy Management System 
      Roberto, F. (Energy Systems Laboratory, 2009-05)
      For many years, ExxonMobil has undertaken voluntary actions to improve efficiency in our operations and in customer use of our products. Our Global Energy Management System (GEMS) is an important initiative that is having ...
    • ExxonMobil Olefins Plant Projects, Maintenance and Optimizations 
      Neely, M. M. (Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2014)
    • ExxonMobile Beaumont Chemical Plant Steam Integration Project 
      Long, T. (Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2010-05)
    • Face Seal Balance Ratio Selection For Two Phase Single And Multicomponent Mixtures 
      Lebeck, Alan O. (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1988)
      It is well known that the fluid pressure distribution between the faces of a mechanical seal greatly affects seal performance. In cases where a sealed fluid changes phase from liquid to vapor as it leaks across the seal ...
    • Facilities Automation and Energy Management 
      Jen, D. P. (Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 1983)
      Computerized facilities automation and energy management systems can be used to maintain high levels of facilities operations efficiencies. The monitoring capabilities provides the current equipment and process status, ...
    • Facility Automation Products--Systems--Applications--Trends 
      Bynum, H. D. (Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 1986-06)
      This paper reviews the current state of technology as digital systems continue rapid evolution and migration into facility control and automation roles. This digital evolution encompasses control systems, management ...
    • Facility Scale Energy Storage for Peak Deman Management and Demand Response 
      Remillard, J. (Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2015)
    • Facility Security – Are you ready?? 
      Efaw, Bill (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)
      Chemical Facility Security has become increasingly important after the World Trade Center attacks in New York City and a continued list of other terrorist attacks over the last 17 years on many other facilities and targets ...
    • Facility Siting and Layout Optimization Based on Process Safety 
      Jung, Seungho (2012-02-14)
      In this work, a new approach to optimize facility layout for toxic release, fire and explosion scenarios is presented. By integrating a risk analysis in the optimization formulation, safer assignments for facility layout ...
    • Facility Siting and Layout Optimization for Risk Reduction of Offshore Operations 
      Richardson, Joshua Paul (2015-07-17)
      An MINLP optimization model has been created that optimizes the layout of a set of sections with fixed footprint areas bound to an offshore platform of a given size based on safety considerations due to fire, explosion, ...
    • Facility Siting of an Ammonia-Urea Complex Based on Risk Analysis 
      Maisha, Nuzhat; Ferdous, Anika; Syeda, Sultana Razia (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)
      In this study facility siting of an existing ammonia-urea complex is evaluated based on risk analysis. A number of critical process units of the plant are selected as the sources of toxic release and overpressure. Locations ...