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CAROL - Robotic Catalyst Removal
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
WorleyParsons has developed the industry’s first commercial robot for catalyst unloading from refinery and petrochemical vessels. The development of CAROLTM (Catalyst Removal Amphirol) responds to increasingly stringent ...
Analytics and Artificial Intelligence: Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection - A case study from the financial sector with application to process safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
This presentation reports on a case study from the financial sector with application to challenges in the field of process safety. Banks collect massive amounts of data from routine financial transactions. Some of the data ...
Options for teaching Operational Process Safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
Over several years the IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) has been working with universities around the world to drive improvement in how process safety is taught. This has seen the ISC release guidelines on desired learning ...
Opportunities and challenges of high-level visualization technology in process operations and safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
The rapid development in high-level visualization technology in recent years has created tremendous opportunities for enhancing all facets of industry. Augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and virtual reality (VR) ...
Team Cognition for Coordinated Decision-Making during Hurricane Harvey: A Case Study from Interviews with Responding Commanders
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
To protect and assist threatened populations and infrastructures in response to natural and man- made disasters, emergency responders from diverse backgrounds collectively work as ad hoc teams. However, responders’ coordinated ...
Connecting Progress Safety and the Dynamic Frontline
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
The real world of operations is neither simple nor static. It’s dynamic and can be difficult to manage. Deviations from management system or procedural practice, changing equipment status, hazards introduced through ...
Sizing Rupture Disk Vent Line Systems for High-velocity Gas Flows
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
In the chemical and petrochemical industry, vessels and pipes are protected against overpressure using safety relief devices, usually rupture disks (also called a bursting disc) or safety valves installed in a vent-line. ...
Heat transfer modeling of high expansion foam application for vapor risk mitigation of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) spills
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
The consumption of natural gas is expected to increase significantly over the next few decades due to much less carbon dioxide emission per unit of energy, when compared to other sources like oil or coal. This has also ...
Numerical Modelling for Effect of Water Curtain in Mitigating Toxic Gas Release
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
As the chemical industry has developed, the use of toxic substances has increased, and leakage accidents have increased. Among various substances, hydrogen fluoride (HF) and ammonia (NH3) are representative materials for ...
The Gulf Research Program’s Initiative on Safer Offshore Energy Systems
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
The Gulf Research Program (GRP) is a division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine established in 2013 as part of settlements in the criminal cases with the companies involved in the 2010 Deepwater ...