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Making Safety Second Nature
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
From the 1960s onwards the chemical and oil industries developed and used a number of new safety techniques which, in time, became second nature to those who used them. They included the use of QRA for deciding priorities, ...
Historical Perspectives on Chemical Process Safety at Texas A&M--Education, Research and Service
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
The Mary Kay O=Connor Process Safety Center was formally established at Texas A&M in 1995. This presentation will outline the activities leading up to the establishment of the Center, and the subsequent activities of the ...
Systematic Evaluation of Chemical Reaction Hazards
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
Effective thermal hazard evaluation requires an integrated approach to assessment of chemical reactivity. A variety of theoretical and experimental methods can be used to determine the thermal stability of specific compounds ...
Tangential Radiographic Testing
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
Research Needs for Process Safety Technology
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 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 ...
Safety Integrity Levels in Design
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
The hazards identified with a new or modified chemical or petroleum refining process can be mitigated in numerous ways. If a system cannot be designed so that it is inherently safe, then other safeguards such as instrumented ...
The API Methodology for risk-biased inspection (RBI) analysis for the petroleum and petrochemical industry.
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
Twenty-one petroleum and petrochemical companies are currently sponsoring a project to develop risk- based inspection (RBI) methodology for application in the refining and petrochemical industry. This paper describes that ...
An Application of Risk-based Design Criteria: HF Alkylation Rapid Acid Deinventory System
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
A New Training Strategy: Design the Work Enviornent for Continuous Learning
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
Expert Systems in Emergency Response
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 1998)
Ensuring the proper response to emergencies is an ideal application for expert systems. Rules can be developed that comprise the appropriate response to either preplanned, site-specific incident scenarios or general incidents ...