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Incorporating Inherently Safer Design Practices into Process Hazard Analysis
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Inherently safer design concepts are particularly useful for risk reduction and are highly recognized and recommended by safety professionals as a first choice in process design practices. These concepts can be easily ...
Achieving Economic Results Through the Climate Wise Energy Management Program
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 1999-05)
Cosmair's Clark Manufacturing Facility joined the Climate Wise program, a voluntary industrial energy efficiency program sponsored by the US EPA, to support its commitment to energy conservation excellence and total ...
Spontaneous Combustible Substances: a Database Update
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
A database of spontaneous combustible substances is under development. Over 100 substances commonly found in the chemical processing industry have been included to date. Spontaneous combustion includes the several related ...
Development of Performance-Based Protection Standards from Recent Research on the Hazards of Silane Releases
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Factory Mutual Research (FMR) is an FM Global affiliate charged with providing advanced property loss prevention research and engineering support for the benefit of the customers of FM Global and the public at large. This ...
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)