Browsing MKOPSC Process Safety Symposium by Title
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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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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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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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)With the rapid development of chemical process plants, the safe storage of hazardous chemicals become an essential topic. Several chemical warehouse incidents related to fire and explosion have been reported recently. ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)Process Safety in the oil and gas industry is managed through a robust Process Safety Management (PSM) system that involves the assessment of the risks associated with a facility in all steps of its life cycle. Risk levels ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)When the natural or human-made disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, wildfires and gas leaks, threaten a populated area, mass casualties and property losses may be followed. To avoid, minimize or eliminate the ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)In order to better prepare students for industry and to provide them with an appreciation of the importance of a dedicated safety culture, the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engi- neering at the University of Iowa ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)The consequence severity of hypothetical release scenarios developed during a Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) can be difficult to evaluate consistently. Even though most companies now have clear and concise consequence ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)Decision support systems (DSS) are used extensively in business to enable managers to make future decisions. Every business area requires a customized DSS. The uniqueness of each business area stems from various types of ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)Well-written procedures are an integral part of any industrial organization for safe operation, managing risks, and continuous improvement. Regulatory bodies around the world require industries to have current, accurate, ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)The Inherently Safer Design is a concept known since 1870. However, there is a general resistance to adopt and systematically apply its principles because they are subjective. For instance: "Reduce the inventory of a ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)Natural Gas pipeline location classification are designed following an approach similar to ASME B31.8, which considers segmenting the pipeline length and count the population in each segment within a given distance from ...