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Study of the Phase Behavior of Mono-Nitrated Poly-Substituted Aromatic Nitrocompounds
(2015-06-26)
Mixed-acid nitration is a well-established process that has been conducted industrially for over 70 years. It involves highly exothermic reactions that must be managed to avoid thermal runaway events, a risk complicated ...
Integration of Human Factors in Offshore Blowout Risk Assessment
(2015-11-30)
Human factors (HFs) are important factors to the Macondo well blowout, but traditional risk assessment has not addressed them. Some common methodologies for offshore drilling risk assessment are fault tree, event tree and ...
Liquefied Natural Gas Hazards Mitigation with High Expansion Foam
(2015-09-28)
The gas industry boom driven by the advancement of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies provides a solution to a growing demand on energy, especially clean energy. The liquefaction process reduces the ...
Study of the Influence of the Main Input Parameters on Toxic Consequence Calculation for a Formaldehyde Release
(2015-07-29)
Formaldehyde is widely used in the chemical industries as a raw material for resins, plastics, fertilizers, and polymers as a solvent, and a preservative. Due to its high reactivity, and acute toxicity, determining the ...
Facility Siting and Layout Optimization for Risk Reduction of Offshore Operations
(2015-07-17)
An MINLP optimization model has been created that optimizes the layout of a set of sections with fixed footprint areas bound to an offshore platform of a given size based on safety considerations due to fire, explosion, ...
Shock Interaction with Dust Layers
(2015-06-02)
Dust explosion hazards in areas where combustible dusts are found have caused loss of life and halted business operations in some instances. The elimination of secondary dust explosion hazards, i.e. reducing dust dispersion, ...
Developing Process Safety Indicators for Organizational Factors in Petrochemical Industries
(2015-07-09)
Most major process safety incidents are preventable and can be avoided as shown in several incident investigation reports. Moreover, these reports indicated that these incidents were certain to occur as shown from the ...
Risk Analysis Including Organizational Aspects In Process Industries
(2015-07-09)
The lack of management of organizational change has been found to be a contributing factor in a number of accidents. Proper management of organizational change considering the possible process safety incidents is essential ...
Study of Dust - Gas Hybrid Mixture Explosions
(2015-08-25)
Hybrid mixtures are widely encountered in industries such as coal mines, paint factories, pharmaceutical industries, or grain elevators. Hybrid mixtures explosions involving dust and gas can cause great loss of lives and ...
Development of a Safety Management System for Drilling and Servicing Operations within OSHA Jurisdiction Area for Texas
(2015-11-05)
Workers of oil and gas extraction industries are exposed to different safety hazards, resulting in fatality rates seven times greater than that of the average U.S. worker. However, oil and gas drilling and servicing ...