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Buckets to Disaster: What to Avoid in Making Critical Decisions
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
This paper offers an approach to the development of techniques and tools to teach risk-based decision analysis and complex decision analysis to minimize the disastrous outcomes of critical decisions taking in the worlds ...
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 ...
Study of Safer Storage and Handling of Graphite Oxide
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Due to the immense potential of graphene for energy storage and composite filler applications the large-scale production of graphene is of increasing commercial and academic interest. The existing direct methods of large-scale ...
Modeling the blanketing and warming effect of high expansion foam used for LNG vapor risk mitigation
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Natural Gas is a cleaner energy when compared to other sources like oil or coal. Its consumption has been drastically increasing over the past few years and is projected to increase further. Liquefying natural gas is an ...
A Strategy Based on Aspen Plus for Venting and Leaks from Vessels
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Severe accidents have occurred when vessels release their contained material either accidentally or intentionally to prevent further catastrophic accidents. Several models have been developed to deal with simulating these ...