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Incorporating Inherently Safer Design Practices into Process Hazard Analysis
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Inherently safer design concepts are particularly useful for risk reduction and are highly recognized and recommended by safety professionals as a first choice in process design practices. These concepts can be easily ...
Accident History Database: An Opportunity
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 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 ...
EPA Perspective on Advances in Process Safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 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 ...
Spontaneous Combustible Substances: a Database Update
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
A database of spontaneous combustible substances is under development. Over 100 substances commonly found in the chemical processing industry have been included to date. Spontaneous combustion includes the several related ...
Development of Performance-Based Protection Standards from Recent Research on the Hazards of Silane Releases
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Factory Mutual Research (FMR) is an FM Global affiliate charged with providing advanced property loss prevention research and engineering support for the benefit of the customers of FM Global and the public at large. This ...
Data Required for Predicting Reactive Chemcial Pathways
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 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 ...
Web Enabled – Real Time Business and Process Analysis to Increase Productivity in Industrial Plants.
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
Intelligent systems (IS) technologies have received much attention in a wide range of process engineering applications including process operations. Due to the rapid change applying the latest technologies has become a ...
FURTHER CALORIMETRIC EVALUATION OF POLYMER/OLIGOMER DECOMPOSITION: APTAC TESTING
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)
The behavior of polymers and oligomers subjected to elevated temperatures in an air-free environment was recently studied to characterize the energetics of polymer/oligomer decomposition. This work, which focused exclusively ...
A View of What We Do--Making Process Safety Second Nature
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
Chemical Process Safety: Learning from Case Histories
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1999)