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A Study of Safety Culture Assessment Framework for Process Industries and Its Application to a Bayesian Belief Network Analysis
(2016-08-08)
Investigations of major catastrophes in process industries have revealed that deficiency of good safety culture is one of the underlying causes of such disasters. Not only has safety culture been recognized as a root cause, ...
Discotic Colloids
(2013-07-25)
Many materials and biological systems in nature are suspensions composed of disks, such as clay, asphaltenes, and red blood cells. Despite their natural abundance and wide industrial application, disks are least studied ...
Flammability Characteristics of Hydrogen and Its Mixtures with Light Hydrocarbons at Atmospheric and Sub-atmospheric Pressures
(2013-07-13)
Knowledge of flammability limits is essential in the prevention of fire and explosion. There are two limits of flammability, upper flammability limit (UFL) and lower flammability limit (LFL), which define the flammable ...
Experimental and Computational Study of Flame Inhibition Mechanisms of Halogenated Compounds in C1-C3 Alkanes Flames
(2013-07-30)
After the restriction of different halogenated fire suppressants by the Montreal Protocol, there is an urgent need to identify environmentally friendlier alternatives. In particular, several efforts have been conducted ...
A New Facility for Studying Shock Wave Passage over Dust Layers
(2013-05-30)
To ensure safety regarding dust explosion hazards, it is important to study the dust lifting process experimentally and identify important parameters that will be valuable for development and validation of numerical ...
Consequence analysis of aqueous ammonia spills using an improved liquid pool evaporation model
(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)
Source term modeling is the key feature in predicting the consequences of releases from
hazardous fluids. Aqueous ammonia serves the purpose of a reducing medium and is
replacing anhydrous ammonia in most of the Selective ...
Development of a computer-aided fault tree synthesis methodology for quantitative risk analysis in the chemical process industry
(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)
There has been growing public concern regarding the threat to people and
environment from industrial activities, thus more rigorous regulations. The investigation
of almost all the major accidents shows that we could ...
Reaction mechanism of cumene hydroperoxide decomposition in cumene and evaluation of its reactivity hazards
(2009-05-15)
Cumene hydroperoxide (CHP), a type of organic peroxide, is widely used in the chemical industry for diverse applications. However, it decomposes and undergoes highly exothermic runaway reactions under high temperature ...
An Integrated Prediction Model for H2S/CO2 Corrosion in the Pipe of Refinery
(2017-04-24)
Corrosion of equipment is one of the most vital factors that results in serious process safety incidents. Though various types of equipment are subject to corrosion issues to different extent depending on the process ...
Study of Cryogenic Vaporization Source-Term Due to Heat Transfer from the Solid Substrate
(2017-04-10)
U.S. regulation requires LNG facilities to demonstrate a safe exclusion zone for public safety. European safety case also requires that the facility will demonstrate their risk level within a tolerable limit. Thus, cryogenic ...