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Web Enabled – Real Time Business and Process Analysis to Increase Productivity in Industrial Plants.
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Intelligent systems (IS) technologies have received much attention in a wide range of process engineering applications including process operations. Due to the rapid change applying the latest technologies has become a ...
FURTHER CALORIMETRIC EVALUATION OF POLYMER/OLIGOMER DECOMPOSITION: APTAC TESTING
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
The behavior of polymers and oligomers subjected to elevated temperatures in an air-free environment was recently studied to characterize the energetics of polymer/oligomer decomposition. This work, which focused exclusively ...
Chemical Process Safety: Learning from Case Histories
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Integrating Ergonomics with Process-Engineering
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Evaulating the Use of Third Parties to Measure Process Safety Management in Small Firms
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
This paper describes a pilot experiment designed to investigate the use of third party auditors to inspect facilities that use hazardous chemicals in order to evaluate compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency’s ...
Accident Databases: What Do They Tell Us?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
The Next Generation of Hazard Assessment Protocols
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
The process industries have been using the hazard and operability (HAZOP) study and design specification checklist methods to analyze processes for several years. Both can be utilized to provide adequate safety analysis ...
Beyond Regulatory Compliance, Making Safety Second Nature-I 999 Development and Application of Accident History Databases Session
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Even though chemical process accidents do not have the same severity, they are usually reported without a (semi) quantitative indication of severity. Sometimes attempts are made to identify those accidents where significant ...
Inherently Safer Design in Plant Layout and Facility Siting
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Was Murphy Wrong? Thoughts on the Application of Murphy’s Law to the Operation and Design of Chemical Plants
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
We’ve all heard of Murphy’s Law. It has been stated in various forms, generally something like “If something can go wrong, it will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.” We often quote Murphy’s Law, often in a light-hearted ...