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The Development of Dynamic Operational Risk Assessment in Oil/Gas and Chemical Industries
(2011-08-08)
In oil/gas and chemical industries, dynamics is one of the most essential characteristics
of any process. Time-dependent response is involved in most steps of both
the physical/engineering processes and the equipment ...
Active and Knowledge-based Process Safety Incident Retrieval System
(2011-10-21)
The sustainability and continued development of the chemical industry is to a large extent dependent on learning from past incidents. The failure to learn from past mistakes is rather not deliberate but due to unawareness ...
Control of Vapor Dispersion and Pool Fire of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) with Expansion Foam
(2011-10-21)
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is flammable when it forms a 5 – 15 percent volumetric
concentration mixture with air at atmospheric conditions. When the LNG vapor comes in
contact with an ignition source, it may result in ...
Laminar Flame Speeds of Nano-Aluminum/Methane Hybrid Mixtures
(2014-12-12)
An existing flame speed bomb, which uses optical techniques to measure laminar flame speed, was employed to study the fundamental phenomena of flame propagation through a uniformly dispersed aerosol. In a previous thesis ...
High Flash-point Fluid Flow System Aerosol Flammability Study and Combustion Mechanism Analysis
(2013-12-02)
The existence of flammable aerosols creates fire and explosion hazards in the process industry. Due to the operation condition of high pressure circumstances, heat transfer fluids tend to form aerosols when accidental ...
Consideration of Solar Radiation in Flare Design
(2018-05-01)
At oil refineries and other chemical processing plants, a flare stack is used to get rid of unwanted or excessive gases and relieve the system of excess pressure. These gases can be generated during different stages of ...
Development of a Safety Management System for Drilling and Servicing Operations within OSHA Jurisdiction Area for Texas
(2015-11-05)
Workers of oil and gas extraction industries are exposed to different safety hazards, resulting in fatality rates seven times greater than that of the average U.S. worker. However, oil and gas drilling and servicing ...
Thermal, Mechanical and Flammability Studies of Flame-retardant Polymer Nanocomposites
(2018-03-23)
Polymers are widely used in our day-to-day lives and we are often oblivious to the fire hazard imposed by these hydrocarbon-based materials. The current study introduces the application of fire retardant nanofillers for ...
Incident Data Analysis Using Data Mining Techniques
(2010-01-16)
There are several databases collecting information on various types of incidents, and
most analyses performed on these databases usually do not expand past basic trend
analysis or counting occurrences. This research uses ...
Towards The Development of Biosensors for the Detection of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC)
(2018-08-07)
Corrosion is one of the biggest concerns for mechanical integrity of infrastructure and infrastructural components, such as oil refineries, bridges and roads. The economic cost of corrosion is typically estimated to be ...