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Regulatory Compliance - A Burden or an Opportunity?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
All businesses must face the often, onerous task of complying with the many regulations. Should this compliance responsibility be considered a burden, or can it truly be turned into an opportunity for improving the functioning ...
Development of an Inherent Safety Index Using Fuzzy Logic
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
The Inherently Safer Design is a concept known since 1870. However, there is a general resistance to adopt and systematically apply its principles because they are subjective. For instance: "Reduce the inventory of a ...
Benchmarking Chlorine Safety Practices in the Water and Wastewater Industry
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Less than six percent of the total chlorine production in the U.S. is used for disinfecting drinking water and wastewater. However, this segment of the industry is responsible for the operation and maintenance of more than ...
A Comparison of Simple Vapor Cloud Explosion Prediction Methodologies
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Advances in research and technology have sprouted several approaches for the prediction of vapor cloud explosion blast loads. The three simple approaches most used in industry are the TNO Multi-Energy Method, Baker-Strehlow ...
Reducing Accident Causation in Complex Plants by Identifying Mutual Misconceptions Between Designers and Operators
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Catastrophic accidents in complex plants arise from an unforeseen combination of a number of factors. Although much effort has been invested in both improving the reliability of components, and the design of user interfaces, ...
Study on Risk Evaluation of Hydroxylamine/water Solution
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
In order to find the cause of explosive fire which occurred in Japan in June 2000[ 1 ]?the decomposition hazards of hydroxylamine(HA) solution were studied experimentally. The thermal decomposition of HA solution was ...
Understanding the Formation of Heat Transfer Fluid Aerosols in Air
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Mist or aerosol explosions present a serious hazard to process industries. Heat transfer fluids are widely used in the chemical process industry, are flammable above their flash points, and can cause explosions. Though the ...
Process Safety Documentation" The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
We all pay lip service to the need for good process safety documentation. PHAs are required to be kept for the life of the process and must be readable by the next team in five years. Process safety information provides ...
Reactive Chemical Incidents, What Does Existing Data Tell Us?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
On April 18, 1998, a runaway reaction initiated a sequence of events that led to an explosion and fire at the Morton International Plant in Patterson, New Jersey. The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's ...
The Pitfalls of Alarm Rationalization and Benchmark Analysis
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
The noble goal of reducing the overload of process control system alarms has lead to many approaches, some more worthy of the task than others. The pressure to do 'something' about alarms is becoming so great that the theme ...