MKOPSC Process Safety Symposium: Recent submissions

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    • Offshore Risk Assessment - Simple or Complex? 
      Alderman, John; Johnson, Mike (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)
      Risk assessment for offshore facilities began shortly after the Piper Alpha incident in 1988. At this time, the UK Health and Safety Executive issued rules for Safety Cases for offshore installations. Safety Cases are now ...
    • What You Ask For Isn’t Always What You Get 
      Kas, K.; Hendershot, D.; Johnson, S. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)
      Engineers designing equipment for a new process routinely specify the required material of construction. But how can we be sure that the specified material of construction was actually installed? These three incidents ...
    • Reactive Chemical Incidents, What Does Existing Data Tell Us? 
      Joseph, Giby (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)
      On April 18, 1998, a runaway reaction initiated a sequence of events that led to an explosion and fire at the Morton International Plant in Patterson, New Jersey. The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's ...
    • Recent Reactive Incidents and Fundamental Concepts That Can Help Prevent Them 
      Joseph, Giby (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)
    • The Importance of Multiphase and Multicomponent Modeling in Consequence and Risk Analysis 
      Johnson, David W.; Marx, Jeffery D. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)
      The ability to accurately predict the consequences of a hazardous fluid release is dependent on three things: the knowledge of the modeler, the quality of the model that is used, and the quality of the input parameters. ...
    • Evaluation of Reaction Hazards for a Wiped-Film Evaporator 
      Johnstone, Harold (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)
      A production plant desired to increase its capacity by raising the operating temperature of a wiped film evaporator (WFE) unit. The WFE separates a high-boiling product (taken overhead) from a heavy tar stream (taken out ...
    • Chemical Facility Vulnerability Assessment Project 
      Jaeger, Calvin D. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)
      Sandia National Laboratories, under the direction of the Office of Science and Technology, National Institute of Justice, is conducting the Chemical Facility Vulnerability Assessment (CFVA) project. The primary objective ...
    • The Pitfalls of Alarm Rationalization and Benchmark Analysis 
      Jesnon, Leslie (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)
      The noble goal of reducing the overload of process control system alarms has lead to many approaches, some more worthy of the task than others. The pressure to do 'something' about alarms is becoming so great that the theme ...
    • Risk Assessment and Management in a University Laboratory 
      Jensen, Niels (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)
      The system describes the management system used at Institut for Kemiteknik at DTU to perform safety assessments of new experimental set-ups and to ensure, that MSDSs are consulted before a chemical is used, and government ...
    • Decomposition of Hydroxylamine/Water Solution added Iron Ion 
      Iwata, Yusaku; Koseki, Hiroshi (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)
      The decomposition hazards of hydroxylamine (HA)/water solution with and without the addition of the iron ion were studied in this paper. Tests were conducted to obtain information about the decomposition hazards of HA/water ...
    • Identifying the Underlying System-Based Causes of Human Errors in Major Chemical Incidents 
      Hoyle, Bill (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1999)
    • Research Needs for Process Safety Technology 
      Howard, Walter B. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      Much process safety technology has been developed through the years and now serves as the basis for present-day design standards for process safety in the process industries. This has come about through carefully executed ...
    • Implementing API RP 580 Risk Based Inspection 
      Alderman, J. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)
      API RP 580 Risk-Based Inspection was recently issued in the spring of 2002. This recommended practice provides the basic elements for developing and implementing a Risk-based Inspection (RBI) program. This paper will provide ...
    • Economic Justification for Process Safety Systems 
      Hillman, Scott (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)
      Improving the overall safety within the process industries requires that process safety programs and projects get funded by plant management. In this day of increasing competitiveness in the global marketplace, the competition ...
    • Practical Applications Approach to Design, Development and Implementation of an Integrated Management System 
      Holdsworth, Rodger (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2002)
      The introduction of Quality, Risk, Safety and Environmental management philosophies has significantly changed industry's view of company organization and controlling processes. Quality, Risk, Safety, Health and Environmental ...
    • Chlorine in Perspective 
      Holland, Charles D. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      Public concerns about chlorine and chlorinated chemicals were first aroused by Rachel Carson in 1962 with the publication of her book Silent Spring in which the uses of DDT and other chlorinated pesticides were attacked. ...
    • Inherent Safety and Reliability in Plant Design 
      Hendershot, Dennis C.; Post, Robert L. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)
      Inherent safety principles apply at all stages in a process life cycle. While the biggest gains are achieved early, through the selection of inherently safer process technology, there are many opportunities for enhancing ...
    • Inherently Safer Plant Equipment Layout to Minimize the Hazards from Vapor Cloud Explosions 
      Herrmann, David D. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)
      It is possible to minimize the blast loads from a potential vapor cloud explosion by careful examination of equipment layout and structural designs. These inherently safer facilities have the advantage of reducing the ...
    • System Simulation of a Management of Change process in a North Slope Oil Exploration Facility 
      Hemsath, James (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2001)
      Our ability to manage the integrity of our facilities is directly related to our ability to manage change. Management of Change as a component of PSM has been part of the processing industry since 1994, yet in that time ...
    • Impact of Basic Process Chemistry Issues on Process Safety 
      Hendershot, Dennis C. (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 1998)
      The greatest opportunities for development of an inherently safer chemical manufacturing process occur at the earliest stages of research and development, in the selection of the chemical synthesis route for the product. ...