Browsing MKOPSC Process Safety Symposium by Title
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)Improving the overall safety within the process industries requires that process safety programs and projects get funded by plant management. In this day of increasing competitiveness in the global marketplace, the competition ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)The overpressure, impulse and ultimate damage resulting from a vapor cloud explosion are primarily a function of flame speed, flammable mass, and the distance to the target. Flame speed is determined by the inherent burning ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)This paper presents experimental measurements of the thermal decomposition reaction of 50 wt% hydroxylamine/water (HA) in an oxygen-free environment using an APTAC calorimeter. Overall kinetics, onset temperatures, heats ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)Secondary dust explosions in coal mines or industrial settings are known to cause greater catastrophic hazards than the coupled primary explosions themselves. The shock waves produced during a primary explosion, which are ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)ANSI/ISA-S84.01 and IEC-61511 include a Life Cycle Model, calling for establishing SIL levels between the HAZOP and the detail design. The benefits of this Life Cycle Model to the user are not stated in either standard. ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)An accident model and a model of human cognition were combined to create a hypothesis about a major source of causation for accidents at a manufacturing site. This led to a definition of a routine/non-routine task or ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)Effects of floating beads on the flash/fire temperatures and occurrence of boilover were studied. To avoid crisis such as huge crude oil fires and boilover in oil and chemical complexes after great earthquakes, floating ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)Most of the current research in flame propagation and deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT), including large and small-scale experiments, have analyzed the influence of obstacles uniformly distributed on the explosion ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)Releases of silane into air and the effects of obstacles were modeled with the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code, FLUENT. First the CFD code simulated the release of a free turbulent jet of silane into air to assure ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)Appropriate packaging and storage practices for certain Class I flammable liquids are a major concern for the chemical industry. When flammable liquids are processed, precautions to prevent sources of ignition must be ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1999)A practical approach to sizing venting requirements for reactive chemical systems is outlined. Using calorimeter data from the Reactive System Screening Tool (RSST) or the new Advanced Reactive System Screening Tool (ARSST), ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)This presentation will focus on the value of employee participation in preventing catastrophic chemical hazards. It will include discussion on why process hazard analyses are ignored or not followed-up; how in some cases ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)Employees in today's environment are often times challenged with changing tasks and activities, many of which pose new or different physical demands. The opportunity for a health/ safety professional to examine how individuals ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)A typical approach to suppressing the effects of a vapor explosion inside an enclosed process building or bay is to use vent panels to relieve the confined blast pressures. This results in blast expanding outside the process ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)It is a well-known fact that up to 80 % of industrial incidents are caused wholly or partly by human actions. “Machines on its own does not cause any Incidents but human intervention does” is the well know based on incident ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)A facility blowdown in the oil and gas industry is a safety critical operation; required to ensure the safe shut-down of processing facilities during a plant emergency. In a blowdown operation, the entire plant is isolated ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)EPA is supportive of the concept of "Making Safety Second Nature." Companies should strive to practice safety as a culture, not as something that is done because regulations require it. Elements in the Risk Management ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)Epidemiological studies have made major contributions to the understanding and prevention of human disease. They are particularly valuable in regard to discovering the risk factors associated with low probability-high ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)Lack of Equipment Data is a fundamental barrier to understanding asset performance inside of and outside of ERP solutions. Defining the solution is highly dependent on the organization’s existing IT infrastructure, the ...