Safety and Loss Prevention

Hazards 22

Hazards 22, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, was held at the Britannia Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool on 11-14 April 2011.

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1. An environmental risk assessment for carbon capture and storage

A. Whitfield

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2. Increasing executive & board understanding of process safety

R. Turney, C. Boulton, A. Brandwood and R. Skelton

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3. The revised 3rd edition of the Chemical Industries Association “Guidance for the location and design of occupied buildings on chemical manufacturing sites”

J. Coates and K. Patterson

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4. Use of CFD in onshore facility explosion siting studies

O. R. Hansen, S. Davis and F. Gavelli

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5. Use of the exceedance curve approach in occupied building risk assessment

K. J. Glynn

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6. A risk based approach to human vulnerability modelling and occupied building analysis

N. Cavanagh

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7. On the integration of hazard & risk studies into a project environment

T. Ennis

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Paper 8. Industrial Risk Assessment for Romanian Seveso II Sites (Results of an EC Twinning Light Project)

Dr. R. Preiss and Dr. M. Struckl

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Paper 9. Assessing Risk on an Experimental Design - How to Use Hazop and SIL Studies Effectively

Jo Fearnley

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Paper 10. Horses for Courses: Matching the Approach to Hazard Analysis with Project Schedule and Design Definition

James Perry, Alexandros Hanna, Silvia Fernandez and Geoff Stevens

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Paper 11. Robust Chemical Reactivity Program Prevents Potential Tank Explosion

John C. Wincek

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Paper 12. The Thermal Stability of Alkyl Hypochlorites

Ian Priestley, Linda Young, Robert Mullins and Phillip Brown

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Paper 13. Fire and Explosion Hazards with Thermal Fluid Systems

Alison McKay and Richard Franklin

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Paper 14. What are the Bottlenecks in the Learning From Incidents Process?

L. Drupsteen, D. J. M. Steijger, J. Groeneweg and G. I. J. M. Zwetsloot

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Paper 15. Stretch in Technology and Keeping the Focus on Process Safety for Exploration and Production in the 21st Century

M. Sam Mannan, Qingsheng Wang and Mary Kay O'Connor

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Paper 16. Basket Line Testing for Thermal Stability and Prediction Confidence

Stephen Putticka, Alan Brownb, Heather Gibbona, and Graham Ackroyda

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Paper 17. Pressure Relief Venting Systems - Examples of Good and Bad Practice

John Hare and Michael Johnson

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Paper 18. Functional Safety: SIL Determination and Beyond - A Case Study from a Chemical Manufacturing Site

Jasjeet Singh and Neil Croft

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Paper 19. The Role of Turbulence in Explosion Vent System Design

Ch. Proust, E. Leprette and J. Snoeys

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Paper 20. Developing Robust and Rapid Compatibility Testing Guidance for the Waste Building and Treatment Industries

Dr. Stephen Rowe and Mr K. V. Middle

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Paper 22. Lifetime Expectancy of (SLOW) Autocatalytic Decomposing Materials

Vincent Van Den Hoogenband, Wim A. Mak, Nico H.A. Versloot

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Paper 23. Moderation of Explosion Likelihood and Consequences of Non-Traditional Dusts

Paul Amyotte, Ruth Domaratzki, Matthew Lindsay and Dustin MacDonald

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Paper 24. Prediction Confidence for Small Scale Thermal Testing of Materials

Graham Arthur, Alan Brown, Stephen Puttick and Craig Williams

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Paper 25. Process Safety Management in Tata Steel Europe - The Application of Process Safety Thinking to a Mature Industry and How to Focus on Process-related Risks

Allen Ormond and Richard Roff

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Paper 26. Achieving Compliance Through People: Training Supervisors to Tackle Procedural Non-Compliance

Paul Leach, Jonathan Berman and David Goodall

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Paper 27. Getting to Grips with Risk - Management Systems and the Insurer

Dr. Ian Wrightson

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Paper 28. Introduction to HSE Benchmarking

A. Kay

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Paper 29. Accident Investigation - A Test of Your Ethics, Principles, Professionalism and Determination?

Roderick Prior

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Paper 30. Shutdowns and Management of Change

Yngve Malmen, Minna Nissila and Kimmo Virolainen

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Paper 31. Comah Remodelling: The Comah Competent Authority as a Learning Organisation for Major Hazards

Jill Wilday, Justin Holroyd, John Hare, Sarah Shore and Ian Travers

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Paper 33. A Review of Established European Practice in Relation to Biohazards Associated with Waste and Waste Related Biofuels

Pat Swords

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Paper 34. Assessment of PRV Turnaround Interval

Alex Bond, Adrian Beech and John Gould

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Paper 35. A Review of the Nuclear Integrated Waste Strategies and the Drive for National Solutions

Neil Blundell and D. A. Goodill

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Paper 36. Ten Years of IEC 61508; Has It Made Any Difference?

A. G. Foord and W. G. Gulland

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Paper 32. Using CFD to Assist Facilities Comply with Thermal Hazard Regulations such as New API RP-752 recommendations

Arnab Chakrabarty and Arafat Aloqaily

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Paper 21. Analysis of CF3Br Inhibition Mechanism on Methane Premixed Combustion

C. Osorio, E. L Petersen, M. S. Mannan and Mary Kay O'Connor

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Paper 37. Experimental Study of the Liquid Phase Hydrolysis Reaction of Titanium Tetrachloride

Luc Vechot, Jonathan E. H. Buston, Jake Kay, Glen A. Round, Shishir Masharani, Graham A. Tickle and Ralph Rowlands

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Paper 38. Managing Reactive Chemical Hazards in Gas Scrubber Systems

David Royle, Robert Fitch and Paul Gillespie

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Paper 39. Towards a Method to Calculate Risks of Underground Pipelines Transporting Hazardous Substances

M. B. Spoelstra and G. M. H. Laheij

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Paper 40. Development of Methods for Geographical Representation of Local Societal Risk

Dr. Diego Lisbona and Dr. Mike Wardman

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Paper 41. QRA - Unleashing Its Power

Philip Nalpanis and Ade Oke

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Paper 42. The Challenge of Dealing with Recommendations from Safety Reviews of Existing Assets

Phil Eames and Joan Evans

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Paper 43. Round Robin Vent Sizing Exercise on a Gassy System: 40% Dicumyl Peroxide in Butyrate Solvent

L. Vechot, Jake Kay, Jill Wilday, Douglas Carson and Jean Pierre Bigot

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Paper 44. STAWaRS: A New Source Term Model for Water Reactive Substances

Helen A. Cruse, Graham A. Tickle, James E. Carlisle, Ron Macbeth, Jonathan E. H. Buston and Ralph Rowlands

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Paper 45. New Alarms and Alerts from Operating Envelopes Drive Economic Benefits as well as Safer Processes

Robin W. Brooks, Alan Mahoney, John Wilson and Na Zhao

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Paper 46. Mitigation of LNG Dispersion Using Two Dimensional (2D) Water Curtains

Tomasz Olewski, Omar Basha, Simon Waldram, Sam Mannan, Luc Vechot and Mary Kay O'Connor

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Paper 47. New Developments in the Assessment and Design of Flame Detector Layouts

Oliver Heynes, Simon Thurlbeck and Garry Clarke

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Paper 48. Effective Risk and Consequence Assessment for Major Hazards and Project Design Evaluation

Jo Fearnley

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Paper 49. Identifying and Managing Process Risks Related to Biofuel Projects and Plants

SreeRaj Nair

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Paper 50. Carbon Capture and Storage: A Case Study of Emerging Risk Issues in the iNTeg-Risk Project

Jill Willday, Nicola Paltrinieri, Regis Farret, Jerome Hebrard and Leo Breedveld

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Paper 51. Numerical Study of Compressed CO2 Pipeline Decompression Characteristics using CFD-DECOM

Baopeng Xu, Hongen Jie, Jennifer X. Wen, Russell Cooper and Julian Barnett

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Paper 52. Waste-to-Energy Plant Process Safety Challenges

Richard Elsdon and Debnath Pal

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Paper 53. Major Hazards of Natural Gas Storage

Alan Tyldesley

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Paper 54. "Guidance on Human Factors Critical Tasak Analysis"

Edward Smith, Anne Koop and Stuart King

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Paper 56. Hazards Associated with the Large-Scale Storage of Fireworks - Human Failure and it's Consequences

Myatt S. G. and Bale E. W.

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Paper 57. Using Hazop to Identify and Minimise Human Errors in Operating Process Plant

Chris Lyth and Ian Bradby

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Paper 58. Key Performance Measures for Human Factors in Major Hazard Industries

Kevin Fitzgerald, Rob Miles, Derek Porter and Mark Scanlon

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Paper 59. The Application of Process Safety Best Practice in a Nuclear Environment

Nigel Dibben and Janet Skinner

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Paper 60. Societal Risk Criteria in Land Use Planning - The Scale of 'Scale Aversion'

Dr. Ivan Vince

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Paper 61. Risk Ranking of Events by Frequency, Consequence and Attenuating Factor: A Three Variable Risk Ranking Technique

Lee M and Shipley M

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Paper 62. Reducing the Potential for Major Accidents within the Power Generation Sector by Utilising Operational Experience

Graeme R. Ellis

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Paper 63. Developing Actions to Minimise Avoidable Waste and its Challenge to Plant Safety

Neil Blundell and Duncan Shaw

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Paper 64. Self Ignition of Hydrogen by Various Mechanisms

P. Hooker, M. Royale, J. Gummer, D. Willoughby and J. Udensi

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Paper 65. Flammability of Hydrocarbon/CO2 Mixtures: Part 1. Ignition and Explosion Characteristics

M. R. Pursell, S. E. Gant, J. Fletcher, W. Rattigan, A. M. Thyer and S. Connolly

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Paper 66. CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery: Process Design Safety of Critical Parameters

Azzam Younes

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Paper 67. Flammability of Hydrocarbon/CO2 Mixtures: Part 2. Predictive Models for Gas Jet Ignition

Gant. S. E, Pursell M. R, Lea C. J, Thyer A. M. and Connolly S.

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Paper 68. Using Process Safety Performance Indicators (PSPI) to Facilitate Process Safety Leadership

Christopher J. Beale

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Paper 69. Testing the Validity and Reliability of a Safety Culture Model Using Process and Occupational Safety Performance Data

Ronny Lardner, Paul McCormick and Emily Novatsis

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Paper 70. Key Factors in Effective Approaches to Learning from Safety Incidents in the Workplace

Dane Lukic, Anoush Margaryan, Allison Littlejohn

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Paper 71. Organisational and Cultural Causes of Accidents - A Pilot Study

Marc McBride, Richard Taylor and Chris Marsh

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Paper 72. Could Cross-Sector Peer Review Help to Prevent Major Process Incidents?

Gordon Sellers

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Paper 73. The Buncefield Explosion: Vapour Cloud Dispersion and Other Observations

J. E. S. Venart and R. J. Rogers

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Paper 74. How Layer of Protection Analysis in Europe is Affected by the Guidance Drawn Up After the Buncefield Accident

Richard Gowland

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Paper 75. A Discussion of some Common Pitfalls in the Application of Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) to the Overfill of Fuel Storage Tanks at Buncefield Type Sites

Dr. Collin Chambers and Jeffrey Pearson

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Paper 76. Blast Damage to Storage Tanks and Steel Clad Buildings

Graham Atkinson

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Paper 77. Tank Gauging Systems used for Bulk Storage of Gasoline

Ralph Braddock and Colin Chambers

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Paper 79. Towards Understanding the Buncefield Explosion Through Advanced Numerical Analysis and Experimental Investigations

A. Heidari, J. M. Pereira, J. X. Wen, V. H. Y. Tam, H. Ghasemnejad, H. A. Shariff, T. Donchev, and D. M. Johnson

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Paper 80. How Not to Investigate an Accident

Trevor Kletz

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Paper 81. Dust Explosion Venting Research

P. Holbrow

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Paper 82. Towards a Deeper Level of Learning from Incidents: Use of Scenarios

Ronny Lardner and Captain Ian Robertson

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Paper 83. Blast Furnance No. 5 Incident, Corus, Port Talbot

J. Hodges and S. Curry

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