Browsing MKOPSC Process Safety Symposium by Title
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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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(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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(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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(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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(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) ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)Ethylene treaters are widely used in the petrochemical industry to remove impurities from ethylene feedstock imported from pipeline networks or storage caverns. The safety concerns of dense phase ethylene treaters due to ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)Leading indicators can be defined as safety-related variables that proactively measure organizational characteristics with the intention of predicting, and subsequently avoiding, process safety incidents. Leading indicators ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)Onshore oil and gas operators face challenging cost efficiency targets while pressing for higher production volumes. Within this tension is a need to reduce planned facility foot prints while maintaining primary focus of ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)This paper focuses on the consideration of an unbiased approach to assessing risk to push the industry towards proactively addressing risk rather than reactively allowing cognitive biases to drive process safety culture ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)The common rift between academia and industry has existed in all fields of engineering. However, ultimately the rift can be seen as more of a lag; it is not so much a question of “academia is not the real world” but rather ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)The use of the bowtie diagram has become widespread in the oil and gas industry as a communication and identification tool for hazardous events. The technique has proven to be very useful in the determination of safety ...