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A Study of Safety Culture Assessment Framework for Process Industries and Its Application to a Bayesian Belief Network Analysis
(2016-08-08)
Investigations of major catastrophes in process industries have revealed that deficiency of good safety culture is one of the underlying causes of such disasters. Not only has safety culture been recognized as a root cause, ...
Comparative Analysis Between LNG Import and Export Terminals
(2016-05-09)
According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the natural gas consumption in the US was 1,726 billion cubic feet in January 2013, and the demand has been increasing rapidly around the world as natural gas ...
Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to Study Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Pool Fires
(2016-12-07)
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) pool fires pose a major risk to LNG facilities. The radiant energy from a LNG pool fire can be sufficiently high to threaten the structural integrity of the facility, plant personnel, fire ...
Decontamination Foam for Chemical Spill Mitigation
(2016-05-27)
The release of hazardous chemicals poses a threat to individuals in the area of a release and to responders who attempt to limit the damage of the release. For a liquid phase spill, the most common decontamination technology ...
Probabilistic Risk Assessment Tool Applied in Facility Layout Optimization
(2016-06-01)
The severity of several chemical incidents occurred in the recent past has been attributed to improper layout arrangement or proximity of a chemical facility to a densely populated area although this is not a new problem. ...
Enhanced Thermal Stability and Flame-Retardant Properties of Cross-Linked Polymer Nanocomposites
(2016-08-22)
Polymeric materials have wide applications in the home and industry, providing inexpensive, lightweight, and high performance materials. However, due to the fuel-rich chemical composition of polymers, many flame-retardant ...
Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition (DDT) Studies: Effect of Non-Uniform Obstacle Distribution on DDT
(2016-04-06)
Most of the previous work has been guided towards the understanding of this phenomenon under a uniform obstacle distribution, i.e., same obstacle shape, blockage ratio, and gap between obstacles. However, industrial ...
Thermal Stability Studies of Ammonium Nitrate
(2016-04-07)
Ammonium nitrate (AN) is widely used in the fertilizer industry and is one of the most concentrated forms of nitrogen fertilizer. However, AN is associated with various hazards including fire and explosion, which have ...
Analysis of the Thermal Decomposition of Untempered Peroxide Systems
(2016-04-08)
Several of the most catastrophic process safety incidents, such as Bhopal and most recently Texas West Fertilizer explosion, were initiated by runaway reactions. Consequences of such incidents include, fatalities, environmental ...
Modeling of Uncontrolled Fluid Flow in Wellbore and its Prevention
(2016-04-07)
Uncontrolled fluid flow in the wellbore is one of the most critical safety concerns for the oil and gas industry. The major focus of this dissertation is on blowout events given the most severe consequences associated with ...