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Review: Overview of flame retardant additives, mechanism of flame retardancy and characterization techniques for polymer nanocomposites
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Fire retardancy of plastics is becoming increasingly important due to the widespread application of plastics in daily life and the subsequent fire hazard associated with it. A wide variety of flame retardant additives have ...
Commonly Encountered Problems in the Safety-Focused Design of Capital Projects
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
The design and construction of a new building is often a significant investment for capital projects. As a result, there are typically many competing design considerations, such as: land use, interconnectivity, access for ...
The future of process safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Process safety has been practiced for several decades, but it is only in recent years that it has become an established discipline. During this evolution we have seen the development of risk assessment techniques and ...
Employee Participation in Preventing Catastrophic Chemical Hazard
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
This presentation will focus on the value of employee participation in preventing catastrophic chemical hazards. It will include discussion on why process hazard analyses are ignored or not followed-up; how in some cases ...
How and When Do I Validate, Proof Test and Re-Validate My SIS logic Solver?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Re-Energizing Industry Risk Management and Coordination and Communication
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
EPA promulgated its risk management program (RMP) rule in the mid-90s when many companies invested a lot of effort in compliance with the rule, coordinating with local emergency planners and responders, and communicating ...
Optimizing Fire & Gas Detection Coverage and Layout using 3D mapping tools
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
A Fire & Gas Detection System enables detection of a gas release or a fire scenario and raises alarms and/or initiates appropriate control action (system isolation, deluge, facility shutdown, etc.). This serves to minimize ...
Comparison between Kick Occurrences in the Gulf of Mexico and Offshore Norway
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
In this article, we discuss kick occurrences during offshore operations in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and in the Norwegian sector of North Sea. The comparison between these two geographic areas is feasible because of ...
Study on the Influence Mechanism of Inner Oil to the Impact Resistance of the Fixed-roof Storage Tank against the Explosion Blast Wave
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
The explosion blast wave in the chemical park will cause the domino effect and serious damage to the surrounding tanks. In order to study the influence mechanism of the inner oil on the impact resistance of the large-scale ...
Instrumentation Adequacy Check for the Debottlenecking Projects and the Impact on Process Safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
The debottlenecking projects are always challenging since there is a tradeoff between the costs of the project and achieving the new production rate of the plant i.e. achieving the new production rate with optimized cost ...