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    • Nimmo, Ian (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1999)
      Each day, at refineries around the world, process operating personnel are putting on protective clothing and stepping out into a world consisting of the biggest chemistry set an individual could imagine. The role of operating ...
    • Poppen, Arlyn H.; Hollenbeck, Robert E. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)
      The 3M Quantitative Process Risk Screening Tool (QPRS Tool) has been developed as a means of assisting 3M facilities globally in evaluating and managing the risks associated with processes that use or store hazardous ...
    • Zhou, Y.; Kazantzis, N.; Mannan, M.; West, H.H.; Rogers, W.J. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)
      Abnormal situations are events that are outside of normal plant operating modes. It is estimated that the U. S. economy could reduce costs by $20 billion per year by avoiding abnormal situations. Modern control systems can ...
    • McCray, Eboni T. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1999)
    • Mannan, Sam; West, Harry (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 mandated the development of regulations for the protection of workers, public, and the environment from catastrophic releases and chemical plant accidents. As a result, the US Environmental ...
    • Wesevich, James; Hassig, P.; Nikodym, L.; Nasri, V.; Mould, J. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)
      Vapor cloud explosions (VCEs) can cause significant damage to nearby buildings, facilities and infrastructure with potential loss of life and significant business interruption, so the accuracy of predicting blast loads on ...
    • Israni, Chris; Stevens, Geni; Bompelly, Radhika (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)
      Corporations have been consistently involved in the areas of process safety, people safety and risk management for several decades. These corporations have witnessed major and minor incidents, and their learnings have been ...
    • Munsil, Mike (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)
      This presentation will look at moving beyond simply acquiring data from small incidents and near misses to addressing common mistakes made following collection of this data. Recording relevant and accurate data from small ...
    • Fialkowski, Charles M.; Garcia, Luis M. F. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)
      A safety instrumented system (SIS) is used to implement one or more Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs) which are designed to reduce the likelihood of hazardous risk by decreasing the frequency of unwanted events (accidents). ...
    • Steinhauser, Eric P. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2017)
      Adapting the requirements of IEC 61511 to a batch system can be frustrating, particularly for multi-product units. While a Safety Instrumented System (SIS) for continuous operation is often a straightforward detect-decide-act ...
    • Cusimano, John; Gale, Tim (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)
      The 2016 edition of IEC 61511-1: 2016 added two new requirements regarding the security of safety instrumented systems (SIS). The first requirement states that “a security risk assessment shall be carried out to identify ...
    • Wilbur, David (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)
      A principal mindset among organizational leaders and managers is the belief that the end goal of attaining human reliability is to achieve flawless performance of job tasking. Despite persistent efforts to enforce compliance, ...
    • Akinci, Necip Onder; Parvathaneni, Krishna; Kumar, Abhimanyu; Kim, Hyun-Su; Stahl, Michael; Dai, Xiaowei (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)
      Design of process modules, piperacks and occupied structures for accidental fire loads is critical for a facility’s operation, emergency planning, safe shutdown and evacuation strategy. In the oil and gas industry, hydrocarbon ...
    • Lander, Elliott; Peres, Camille; Mannan, Sam (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)
      Well written procedures are an integral part of any industrial operation for safe operation, managing risks and continuous improvement. Although the importance of procedures is recognized by all industries and regulators, ...
    • Burelbach, J. P. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1999)
      The new Advanced Reactive System Screening Tool (ARSST) is an easy to use and cost- effective calorimeter that can quickly and safely identify potential chemical hazards in the process industry. ARSST data yield critical ...
    • Kiihne, Gregg M. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2018)
      Much focus within process safety and process safety education is on the basic engineering phase where the principles of process safety and inherently safer design can be incorporated into the process design. The culmination ...
    • Olsen, Jody E. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)
      It is not uncommon to find that Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) scenarios and Process Safety Valve (PSV) calculation cases do not align. The intent of PHA studies, typically performed using the Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) ...
    • Rodante, Thomas (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)
      In September 1997 an LPG release occurred at the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Ltd refinery in Vishakhpatnam, India. The resultant explosion and fire destroyed most of the facility's administrative buildings, numerous ...
    • Lin, Yan-Ru; Cheng, Zhengdong; Mannan, M. Sam (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2016)
      Fire and explosion incidents related to aerosol occur occasionally throughout the industries. However, its hazards are relatively overlooked due to the misconception of that liquids are safe below their flash point. As ...
    • Yang, Hui-Ning; Chen, Jen-How; Chiu, Home-Jo; Kao, Ting-Jia; Tsai, Hsiao-Yun; Chen, Jenq-Renn (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 ...