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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)On 23:57 July 31st, 2014, a catastrophic vapor explosion occurred in the downtown of Kaohsiung city. The incident was initiated from a leak of an underground pipeline transporting pressurized propylene liquid. Analysis of ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)The article aims demonstrate the importance of reliability mapping for decrease risks of shutdown and accident in critical activities. For mapping is needed to know the operational context, considering culture and deviations ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)EPA’s risk management program requires regulated facilities to submit a risk management plan, which includes the 5-year accident history of the facility. EPA has compiled the risk management plan in the RMP*Info database. ...
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(2012-07-16)Chemical incidents can be prevented or mitigated by improving safety performance and implementing the lessons learned from past incidents. Despite some limitations in the range of information they provide, chemical incident ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)The principles of risk, danger, and sociability depend on cognitive limitations and the social work environment. Subjects are linked in binaries or multiples where they can establish causal relationships or influences that ...
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(2016-04-08)Several of the most catastrophic process safety incidents, such as Bhopal and most recently Texas West Fertilizer explosion, were initiated by runaway reactions. Consequences of such incidents include, fatalities, environmental ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)During detail engineering project for EG3 (Ethylene Glycol Plant no.3) for Jubail United Petrochemical Company, a SABIC affiliate, the writer found oxygen feed header from Gas Plant pipeline laydown on pipe rack instead ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)This presentation reports on a case study from the financial sector with application to challenges in the field of process safety. Banks collect massive amounts of data from routine financial transactions. Some of the data ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)Standard operating procedures (SOPs) are a vital element of everyday operations in chemical process industries. Incident investigations also indicate that a majority of adverse events in the processing operations are ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)Twenty-one petroleum and petrochemical companies are currently sponsoring a project to develop risk- based inspection (RBI) methodology for application in the refining and petrochemical industry. This paper describes that ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)This presentation describes an ongoing EPA-OECD project whose goal is to improve understanding and communications in regard to the application of risk assessment processes to accidental chemical releases. The project ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)To simulate the behavior of a chemical reaction or unit operation, thermodynamic, kinetic or mechanistic information is necessary. Such data are usually obtained from direct experimental measurements, empirical correlations, ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)The fourteen elements of OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) program underpin so much of facility operations. PSM programs grow in complexity over time and can become increasingly disembodied from the operational elements ...
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(2016-12-07)Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) pool fires pose a major risk to LNG facilities. The radiant energy from a LNG pool fire can be sufficiently high to threaten the structural integrity of the facility, plant personnel, fire ...
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(2016-04-22)Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is a cryogenic liquid consisting predominantly of methane compressed to 1/600th of its gaseous volume for transportation. A release of LNG on water during marine operations can occur due to ...
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(2013-05-31)The safety and security of liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities has prompted the need for continued study of LNG mitigation systems. Water spray systems are widely recognized as an effective measure for dispersing LNG ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)Chemical process incidents are typically accompanied by a complex chain of events involving multiple breakdowns of safeguards in “tightly coupled” systems. When identifying and determining the most likely scenario(s), there ...
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(2009-05-15)Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) hazards include LNG flammable vapor dispersion and LNG pool fire thermal radiation. A large LNG pool fire emits high thermal radiation thus preventing fire fighters from approaching and extinguishing ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)In process industries, the application of functional safety in preventing major incidents is a well- established practice. The functional safety standard IEC 61511[1] is applied to the safety instrumented system (SIS) ...