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Integration of Damage Mechanism Review with Process Hazard Analyses
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2015)
Significant releases of highly toxic and flammable materials have occurred in various industries as a direct result of corrosion effects and other damage mechanisms. Examples of such events can readily be found in petroleum ...
Thermal Behavior and Dust Explosion Characteristics of Spent Coffee Grounds and Jatropha as Biodiesel Feedstock
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2015)
This work examined the minimum explosion limit (MEL), minimum ignition energy (MIE), cohesion, dispersibility, decomposition temperature (Td) and burning rates of spent coffee ground (SCG), jatropha kernel (JK) and jatropha ...
Use of FLACS during the TWA-800 Accident Investigation
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2015)
The TWA flight 800 accident occurred on July 17, 1996 just outside New York City shortly after take-off. The airplane desintegrated as a result of an “explosion” and 230 people were killed. The investigation concentrated ...
Building on the Foundation of Process Safety by Incorporating Barrier Integrity Assurance
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2015)
As operating companies continue to strive for improvement in the areas of process safety and integrity management, the need for an integrated approach becomes more evident. Many operators have become adept at conducting ...
Increasing Near-Miss Reporting Through a Culture of Mutual Understanding and Self-Disclosure
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2015)
Considering the known benefits of near-miss reporting, why are workers on the front lines of the process industries – operators and maintenance technicians – still so reluctant to communicate their daily experiences? Many ...
High Reliability Organizations: Managing Risk in Complex Operating Environments
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2015)
Over the past two decades the environment companies operate in has become increasingly complex, and the pace of change continues to accelerate. With increased complexity, comes increased risk for high consequence/low ...
Implementing New Elements into an Existing PSM System
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2015)
This paper will present an approach for successfully implementing a new element(s) into a site or company’s existing process safety management (PSM) system. This approach includes steps for: (1) developing a new element ...
Risk Assessment Tool for Liquid Overfill of Process and Storage Vessels
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2015)
The paper describes the process that a large company uses to analyze the risk associated with liquid overfill from pressure vessels and atmospheric storage in both petrochemical and refining operations. Due to learnings ...
Ensuring Safe Facility Blowdown and Lessons Learnt from Incident Investigation
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 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 ...
Large-Scale VCE Consequence Modeling for Industrial Facility Siting, Risk Assessment, Hazard Mitigation Design, and Response Planning
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2015)
New, fully three dimensional, technologies are now making it possible to more quickly and accurately simulate and predict the consequences of accidental releases leading to vapor cloud explosions (VCE) at a wide variety ...