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Issues in Fault Diagnosis and Isolation
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
In the chemical and other related industries, there has been an impetus to produce higher quality products, to reduce rejection rates, limit down time, and to satisfy increasingly stringent safety and environment regulations. ...
Effects of Obstacle Geometry on Jet Mixing for Releases of Silane
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Releases of silane into air and the effects of obstacles were modeled with the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code, FLUENT. First the CFD code simulated the release of a free turbulent jet of silane into air to assure ...
Use of Fault Trees for Quantitative Risk Assessment
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
There are many examples in industry where accidents have occurred because of process safeguard failures. With the increasing risk of accidents and approval of ISA- S84.01 and IEC 61508, people are making extensive efforts ...
Process Safeguards and Risk Analysis for Offshore Proccessing
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Process safeguards have been traditionally designed into petroleum processing systems. The confined and remote nature of offshore petroleum added special conditions to process safeguard requirements. Increased regulatory ...
Theoretical and Experimental Techniques for the Evaluation of Reactive Chemical Hazards
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Evaluation of reactive chemical hazards is critical for the design and operation of safer chemical plant processes. Much effort is needed for experimental techniques to measure thermal reactivity of chemical systems. ...
Of Computers, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Reactivity
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
With the availability of powerful computers and continued reduction in computing cost, it is routinely possible to calculate the physico-chemical properties of chemicals. This paper is an overview of state-of- the-art ...
Development of a Decision Support System for Chemical Accident
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Decision support systems (DSS) are used extensively in business to enable managers to make future decisions. Every business area requires a customized DSS. The uniqueness of each business area stems from various types of ...
Benchmarking Management of Change Practices in the Process Industry
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Management of Change (MOC) is a relatively recent procedure that was mandated by the OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) regulation. The performance-oriented nature of the PSM regulation allows for a wide variety of ...
Understanding the Formation of Heat Transfer Fluid Aerosols in Air
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2001)
Mist or aerosol explosions present a serious hazard to process industries. Heat transfer fluids are widely used in the chemical process industry, are flammable above their flash points, and can cause explosions. Though the ...
Droplet Size Distributions of Heat Transfer Fluid Aerosols in Air
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2000)
Heat transfer fluids are widely used in the chemical process industry and are available in a wide range of properties. These fluids are flammable above their flash points and can cause explosions. Though the possibility ...