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Development of a Vapor Cloud Explosion Risk Analysis Tool Using Exceedance Methodology
(2012-10-19)
In development projects, designers should take into consideration the possibility of a vapor cloud explosion in the siting and design of a process plant from day one. The most important decisions pertinent to the location ...
Analysis of Innovative HVAC System Technologies and Their Application for Office Buildings in Hot and Humid Climates
(2012-02-14)
The commercial buildings sector in the United States used 18 percent (17.93 Quads) of the U.S. primary energy in 2006. Office buildings are the largest single energy consumption category in the commercial buildings sector ...
Safety-oriented Resilience Evaluation in Chemical Processes
(2012-02-14)
In the area of process safety, many efforts have focused on studying methods to prevent the transition of the state of the system from a normal state to an upset and/or catastrophic state, but many unexpected changes are ...
Dynamic Operational Risk Assessment with Bayesian Network
(2012-10-19)
Oil/gas and petrochemical plants are complicated and dynamic in nature. Dynamic characteristics include ageing of equipment/components, season changes, stochastic processes, operator response times, inspection and testing ...
Study of the Effects of Obstacles in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Vapor Dispersion using CFD Modeling
(2012-10-19)
The evaluation of the potential hazards related with the operation of an LNG terminal includes possible release scenarios with the consequent flammable vapor dispersion within the facility; therefore, it is important to ...
Modeling of LNG Pool Spreading and Vaporization
(2012-11-20)
In this work, a source term model for estimating the rate of spreading and vaporization of LNG on land and sea is introduced. The model takes into account the composition changes of the boiling mixture, the varying ...
Corrosion Detection and Prediction Studies
(2012-10-19)
Corrosion is the most important mechanical integrity issues the petrochemical industry has to deal with. While significant research has been dedicated to studying corrosion, it is still the leading cause of pipeline failure ...
Normalization of Process Safety Metrics
(2012-10-19)
This study is aimed at exploring new process safety metrics for measuring the process safety performance in processing industries. Following a series of catastrophic incidents such as the Bhopal chemical tragedy (1984) and ...
Inert Gas Dilution Effect on the Flammability Limits of Hydrocarbon Mixtures
(2012-02-14)
Flammability limit is a most significant property of substances to ensure safety of chemical processes and fuel application. Although there are numerous flammability literature data available for pure substances, for fuel ...
Evaluation of Alternatives for Safer and More Efficient Reactions: A study of the N-oxidation of Alkylpyridines
(2012-02-14)
The catalytic N-oxidation of alkylpyridines, a reaction which uses hydrogen peroxide as the oxidizing agent and the water soluble phosphotungstic acid as the catalyst, is a reaction employed in the pharmaceutical industry. ...