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A Novel Oil-Water Emulsion Burner Concept for Offshore Oil Spill Clean Up
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2016)
In-situ burning has been considered as a primary spill response option for oil spills since offshore drilling began in the Beaufort Sea (1970s). Since then, many studies and tests have been performed but researchers are ...
Risk Benchmarking for Onshore and Offshore LNG Developments
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2016)
With the continuing growth in the global LNG trade and an increased activity of liquefaction projects proposed within North America, safety risk management is gaining more focus both from regulators and public. Multiple ...
Thermokinetic Investigation of o-Nitrotoluene Using Reaction Calorimetry
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2016)
O-nitrotoluene (2-NT) is an important chemical widely used in the chemical industry. However, in the past 25 years, severe incidents have killed 10 people and injured more than 200 due to its thermal decomposition. This ...
Modelling and Validation of Atmospheric Expansion and Near-Field Dispersion for Pressurised Vapour or Two-Phase Releases
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2016)
The consequence modelling package Phast includes steady-state and time-varying discharge models for vessel orifice releases of toxic or flammable materials. These models first calculate the depressurisation between the ...
LNG Facility Siting – An Alternative Approach for Vapor Cloud Reduction
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2016)
The siting of Marine LNG facilities in the United States requires application of the Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 193, Liquefied Natural Gas Facilities: Federal Safety Standards[1], and NFPA 59A ...
A Global Stochastic Programming Approach for the Optimal Placement of Gas Detectors with Nonuniform Unavailabilities
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2016)
Optimal design of a gas detection systems is challenging because of the numerous sources of uncertainty, including weather and environmental conditions, leak location and characteristics, and process conditions. Rigorous ...
Data Analytics & Data Management (DA&DM) Solutions to Manage Pipeline Integrity and Comply with New PHMSA Regulations
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2016)
The potential of Data Analytics (DA) has become apparent because of the ‘Big Data’ phenomenon. Business analytics is becoming commonplace where companies use historical business performance data and predictive modeling to ...
Admitting Human Error in the Workplace - The Mindset Shift to Attaining Operational Resilience
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2016)
A principal mindset among organizational leaders and managers is the belief that the end goal of attaining human reliability is to achieve flawless performance of job tasking. Despite persistent efforts to enforce compliance, ...
Lessons in Process Safety Management Learned in an Explosion Accident in Taiwan
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2016)
A substantial explosion attributed to thermal decomposition of o,o-dimethyl phosphoramidothioate (DMPAT) resulted in 1 fatalities and 1 injury in Taichung, Taiwan, in 2016. An analysis of this explosion indicated that such ...
Mind The Gap – Improving Process Safety with an Integrated Approach Using Risk Assessments, Incident Analyses and Audits
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2016)
Although most organizations have risk critical information available, it is not always integrated. In this paper, a bowtie perspective is proposed that enables an integration of three risk data sources. Issues with these ...