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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 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 ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Process monitoring in the chemical and other process industries has been of great practical importance. Early detection of faults is critical in avoiding product quality deterioration, equipment damage, and personal injury. ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)Extensive reactivity data for a particular mixture of chemicals at the potential operating conditions of a process under consideration are rarely available. The impact of vessel size, catalytic contaminants, and other ...
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(2017-05-30)As chemical process plants have become more involved and complex, the likelihood of hazardous incidents has increased simultaneously. That is, the more complex a facility’s systems, the more factors engineers must consider. ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)Over the past decade, faculty in the Department of Psychology who specialize in industrial-organizational (IO) psychology1 have collaborated with the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center on the topic of safety climate2 ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)Effective safety barrier management is a fundamental principle for prevention and mitigation of major accidents in offshore drilling and production operations. Barrier management methods such as bow tie diagrams are commonly ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2002)Decision Support Systems (DSS) find extensive applications in business enabling industry managers to make intelligent risk decisions. Although widely used in business applications, the application of DSS to Process Safety ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)The decomposition hazards of hydroxylamine (HA)/water solution with and without the addition of the iron ion were studied in this paper. Tests were conducted to obtain information about the decomposition hazards of HA/water ...
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(2016-05-27)The release of hazardous chemicals poses a threat to individuals in the area of a release and to responders who attempt to limit the damage of the release. For a liquid phase spill, the most common decontamination technology ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)Process Safety Information (PSI) is one of the fourteen elements of Process Safety Management (PSM). The findings of the PSI element in the PSM audit for more than 50 plants in Taiwan were reported in this manuscript, and ...
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(2016-04-06)Most of the previous work has been guided towards the understanding of this phenomenon under a uniform obstacle distribution, i.e., same obstacle shape, blockage ratio, and gap between obstacles. However, industrial ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)The current oil and gas industry market conditions put greater emphasis of finding cost-effective design solutions while maintaining the same emphasis on process safety. Riser flange covers potentially provide a weight-saving ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1999)Production, transportation, and storage of hazardous chemicals represent potential risks to the environment, the public, and the producers themselves. The release to the atmosphere of materials that may form mixtures denser ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)This report describes events involving the acute release of hazardous substances from reported to the Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance (HSEES) system for 1993-2000. HSEES, a surveillance system maintained ...
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(2010-12-07)Following several terrorist attacks that have occurred during this decade, there is an urgent need to develop new technologies for the detection of highly energetic materials that can represent an explosive hazard. In an ...
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(2014-04-18)Alkylpyridine N-oxides are important intermediates in the pharmaceutical industry. The N-oxides are produced via the homogeneously catalyzed N-oxidation of the respective alkylpyridines using hydrogen peroxide as the ...
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Designing Effective Emergency Response Plans: Lessons learned from investigating two major incidents (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)Emergency response plans are an essential, yet oftentimes overlooked, layer of protection for facilities where all other layers of protection failed to prevent an incident. While catastrophic accidents such as large releases ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)The fundamentals of Inherently Safer Design were not fully appreciated in the initial design (or re-design) in the following series of case histories. Two case histories involving the basic element of plant layout to ...
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(2012-02-14)Hazard communication is an essential part of a comprehensive safety plan, especially for those facilities that contain reactive chemicals. There are a variety of means of communicating a chemical hazard, but one of the ...