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Team Cognition for Coordinated Decision-Making during Hurricane Harvey: A Case Study from Interviews with Responding Commanders
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
To protect and assist threatened populations and infrastructures in response to natural and man- made disasters, emergency responders from diverse backgrounds collectively work as ad hoc teams. However, responders’ coordinated ...
Connecting Progress Safety and the Dynamic Frontline
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
The real world of operations is neither simple nor static. It’s dynamic and can be difficult to manage. Deviations from management system or procedural practice, changing equipment status, hazards introduced through ...
Sizing Rupture Disk Vent Line Systems for High-velocity Gas Flows
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
In the chemical and petrochemical industry, vessels and pipes are protected against overpressure using safety relief devices, usually rupture disks (also called a bursting disc) or safety valves installed in a vent-line. ...
Heat transfer modeling of high expansion foam application for vapor risk mitigation of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) spills
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
The consumption of natural gas is expected to increase significantly over the next few decades due to much less carbon dioxide emission per unit of energy, when compared to other sources like oil or coal. This has also ...
Numerical Modelling for Effect of Water Curtain in Mitigating Toxic Gas Release
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
As the chemical industry has developed, the use of toxic substances has increased, and leakage accidents have increased. Among various substances, hydrogen fluoride (HF) and ammonia (NH3) are representative materials for ...
The Gulf Research Program’s Initiative on Safer Offshore Energy Systems
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
The Gulf Research Program (GRP) is a division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine established in 2013 as part of settlements in the criminal cases with the companies involved in the 2010 Deepwater ...
Thermal Analysis and Characterization of Polystyrene Initiated by Benzoyl Peroxide
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
Based on the complexity of the polystyrene polymerization mechanism initiated by benzoyl peroxide (BPO), the thermal risk of the reaction process was estimated using thermal analysis and characterization. The polymerization ...
Developing Safety Culture in an Undergraduate Chemical Process Safety Course
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 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 ...
Successful Implementation of Hazards and Effects Management System in Capital Project
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
Tiger AO4 Project delivers a competitive Linear Alpha Olefins (LAO) project at Geismar in 2018, recovering 100 kta of “stranded” LAO capacity in the Geismar Chemical Plan and contributes an additional 716 MMlbs/year of LAO ...
Dropped Object Risk Assessment for Fixed Offshore Platforms
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
Dropped object risk assessment quantifies the risk caused by accidental dropped objects on potential targets from topsides of a fixed offshore platform to seabed. The risk assessment evaluates both the likelihood of the ...