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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 ...
Buckets to Disaster: What to Avoid in Making Critical Decisions
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
This paper offers an approach to the development of techniques and tools to teach risk-based decision analysis and complex decision analysis to minimize the disastrous outcomes of critical decisions taking in the worlds ...
Development of a Company-Specific Consequence Severity Model to Improve Efficiency and Consistency in PHAs
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
The consequence severity of hypothetical release scenarios developed during a Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) can be difficult to evaluate consistently. Even though most companies now have clear and concise consequence ...
Tsunami as a credible hazard – A case for safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Seismic sea wave, commonly called a Tsunami is caused due to large scale displacement of water column. The stored energy due to the wave impacting the plant equipment on the shoreline is enormous. In the recent past tsunamis, ...
A Refreshing Take: Analysing Accident Scenarios through Causal Network Topology Metrics
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
Accident causation investigation and even more hazard scenario identification are troubled by the complexity of interactions between three elements in a process facility: People, Plant and Procedures. Interactions are of ...
Transient Large-Scale Chlorine Releases in the Jack Rabbit II Field Tests: Estimates of the Airborne Mass Rate for Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the U.S. Department of Defense, and Transport Canada, the Jack Rabbit II tests were designed to release liquid chlorine ...
The Importance of Properly Determining Consequences of Process Safety Incidents
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
The purpose of this presentation is to communicate the importance of properly and consistently determining the consequence of potential process safety incidents. There are different methods to determine consequences such ...