Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center

Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

List of Center Publications for Quantitative Risk Assessment

Incorporating human and organizational factors and learnings from past incidents in QRAs

  1. Halim, Syeda Zohra (2019). Cumulative Risk Assessment to Analyze Increased Risk Due to Impaired Barriers in Offshore Facilities. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University. https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/187963
  2. Ahumada, C. B., Quddus, N., & Mannan, M. S. (2018). A method for facility layout optimisation including stochastic risk assessment. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 117, 616-628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2018.06.004

Continuous Operational Risk Assessment for a Chemical Process

  1. • Barua, S., X. Gao, H.J. Pasman and M.S. Mannan, “Bayesian Network Based Dynamic Operational Risk Assessment,” Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol. 41, May 2016, pp. 399-410. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950423015300759
  2. • Barua, S., X. Gao and M.S. Mannan, “Dynamic Operational Risk Assessment with Bayesian Networks,” Proceedings of 8th Global Congress on Process Safety, Houston, Texas, April 1-4, 2012. https://www.aiche.org/conferences/aiche-spring-meeting-and-global-congress-on-process-safety/2012/proceeding/paper/106l-dynamic-operational-risk-assessment-bayesian-networks-0
  3. • Yang, X. and M.S. Mannan, “The Development and Application of Dynamic Operational Risk Assessment in Oil/Gas and Chemical Process Industry,” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 95, no. 7, July 2010, pp. 806-815. http://psc.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/development-and-application-of-dynamic-operational-risk-assessment.pdf

Development of A Computer-Aided Fault tree Analysis Methodology

  1. Wang, Y., H.H. West, T.L. Teague, N. Hasan, and M.S. Mannan, “Correlation of Quantitative Risk Results for High Hazard Processes,” Risk Analysis, vol. 23, no 5, 2003, pp. 937-943.
  2. Wang, Y., T.L. Teague, H.H. West, and M.S. Mannan, “A New Algorithm for Computer-aided Fault-Tree Synthesis,” Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol. 15, no. 4, July 2002, pp. 265-277.
  3. Wang, Y., T.L. Teague, H.H. West and M.S. Mannan, “Computer-Aided Fault-Tree Synthesis for Quantitative Risk Assessments,” Proceedings of the 4th Annual Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center Symposium – Beyond Regulatory Compliance: Making Safety Second Nature, College Station, Texas, October 30-31, 2001, pp. 574-601.
  4. Wang, Y., T.L. Teague, H.H. West and M.S. Mannan, “Use of Fault Trees for Quantitative Risk Assessment,” Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center Symposium – Beyond Regulatory Compliance: Making Safety Second Nature, College Station, Texas, October 24-25, 2000, pp. 121-127.
  5. Wang, Y., W.J. Rogers, H.H. West and M.S. Mannan, “Algorithmic Fault Tree Synthesis for Control Loops,” Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol. 16, no. 5, September 2003, pp. 427-441.

Transportation Risk Analysis for Hazardous Materials Transportation

  1. Quantitative Risk Assessment of LNG-FSRU System Based on Multi-Attribute Decision Analysis (MADA) Model Ji, Chenxi (2017). Facility Siting Study of LNG-FSRU System Based on Quantitative Multi-Hierarchy Framework MADA. Master’s thesis, Texas A & M University. https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/173204
  2. Quddus, N., Yu, M., Tamim, N., Rahmani, S., & Mannan, M. S. (2018). Risk assessment of class 3 (PG II & III) hazardous materials in transportation. Process Safety Progress, 37(3), 376-381. https://doi.org/10.1002/prs.11967

Uncertainty Delimitation and Reduction for Improved Mishap Probability Prediction

  1. Hong, Y., H.J. Pasman, S. Sachdeva, A.S. Markowski and M.S. Mannan, “A Fuzzy Logic and Probabilistic Hybrid Approach to Quantify the Uncertainty in Layer of Protection Analysis,” Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol. 43, September 2016, pp. 10-17. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950423016301097
  2. Pasman H.J., “Challenges to improve confidence level of risk assessment of hydrogen technologies”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 36 (2011) 2407-2413.
  3. Wang, Y., H.H. West, and M.S. Mannan, “The Impact of Data Uncertainty in Determining Safety Integrity Level,” Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Transactions of the Institute of Chemical Engineers Part B, vol. 82, no. 6, November 2004, pp. 393-397.
  4. Markowski, A.S. and M.S. Mannan, “ExSys-LOPA for the chemical process industry,” Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol. 23, no. 6, November 2010, pp. 688-696.
  5. Markowski, A.S., R.E. Sanders and M.S. Mannan, “Using Layers of Protection Analysis: The Do’s and the Views,” Proceedings of the 13th Annual Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center Symposium – Beyond Regulatory Compliance: Making Safety Second Nature, College Station, Texas, October 26-28, 2010, pp. 90-106.
  6. Markowski, A.S., M.S. Mannan and A. Kotynia, “Application of fuzzy logic to explosion risk assessment,” Proceedings of the 13th Annual Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center Symposium – Beyond Regulatory Compliance: Making Safety Second Nature, College Station, Texas, October 26-28, 2010, pp. 181-203.
  7. Markowski, A.S. and M.S. Mannan, “ExSys-LOPA for the Chemical Process Industry,” Proceedings of the 12th Annual Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center Symposium –Beyond Regulatory Compliance: Making Safety Second Nature, College Station, Texas, October 27-28, 2009, pp. 5-19.

Other publications

  1. Pasman, H.J.,W.J. Rogers and M.S. Mannan, “Risk assessment: What is it worth? Shall we just do away with it, or can it do a better job?” Safety Science,2017 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925753517301418?via%3Dihub
  2. Liu, R., A.R. Hasan, A. Ahluwalia and M.S. Mannan, “Well Specific Oil Discharge Risk Assessment by a Dynamic Blowout Simulation Tool,” Process Safety and Environmental Protection, vol. 103, Part A, September 2016, pp. 183-191. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0957582016301240
  3. Vázquez-Román, R., C. Díaz-Ovalle, E. Quiroz-Pérez and M.S. Mannan, “A CFD-Based Approach for Gas Detectors Allocation,” Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol. 44, November 2016, pp. 633-641. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950423016300596
  4. • Ahammad, M., Y. Liu, T. Olewski, L.N. Vechot and M.S. Mannan, “Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Simulating Film Boiling of Cryogens,” Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 55, no. 27, 2016, pp. 7548–7547. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.iecr.6b01013
  5. • Benavides-Serrano*, A.J., M.S. Mannan and C.D. Laird, “A Quantitative Assessment on the Placement Practices of Gas Detectors in the Process Industries,” Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol. 35, May 2015, pp. 339-351. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950423014001533
  6. Ramírez-Marengo, C., J. de Lira-Flores, A. López-Molina, R. Vázquez-Román, V.Carreto-Vázquez, and M.S. Mannan, “A Formulation to Optimize the Risk Reduction Process Based on LOPA,” Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol. 26, no. 3, May 2013, pp. 489-494. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950423012001052
  7. Pasman H.J., “History of Dutch Process Equipment Failure Frequencies and the Purple Book”, Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 24 (2011) 208-213.
  8. YMarkowski, A.S., M.S. Mannan, A. Kotynia-Bigoszewska, and D. Siuta, “Uncertainty aspects in process safety analysis,” Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol. 23, no. 3, May 2010, pp. 445-454. PDF
  9. Yang, X., C.D. Laird and M. S. Mannan, “Pareto Optimization On Component Inspection Interval for Level Control in An Oil/ Gas Separation System,” 2010 AIChE Spring National Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, March 21-25, 2010.
  10. Yang, X. and M.S. Mannan, “An Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis of Dynamic Operational Risk Assessment Model: A Case Study,” Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol. 23, no. 2, March 2010, pp. 300-307.
  11. Prem, K.P., D. Ng, M. Sawyer, Y. Guo, H.J. Pasman and M.S. Mannan, “Risk measures constituting a risk metrics which enables improved decision making: Value-at-Risk,” Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol. 23, no. 2, March 2010, pp. 211-219.
  12. Liu, R., A.R. Hasan, A. Ahluwalia and M.S. Mannan, “Well Specific Oil Discharge Risk Assessment by a Dynamic Blowout Simulation Tool,” Process Safety and Environmental Protection, vol. 103, Part A, September 2016, pp. 183-191. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0957582016301240
  13. Hans J. Pasman, Seungho Jung, Katherine Prem, William J. Rogers, Xiaole Yang, “Is Risk Analysis a Useful Tool for Improving Process Safety?”, Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 22, pp. 769-777, 2009.
  14. Keren, N., S. Anand, and M.S. Mannan, “Calibrate Failure-Based Risk Assessments to Take Into Account the Type of Chemical Processed in Equipment,” Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol. 19, no. 6, November 2006, pp. 714-718.
  15. Wang, Y., H.H. West, N. Hasan, and M.S. Mannan, “QRA Study of an Activated Carbon Filter SafeGuard System,” Transactions of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, Part B, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, vol. 83, no. B2, March 2005, pp. 191-196.
  16. Mannan, M.S., W.J. Rogers, J.T. Baldwin, J.P. Gupta, Y. Wang, S.R. Saraf, and K. Krishna, “Hydroxylamine Production: Will a QRA Help You Decide,” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 81, no. 2, August 2003, pp. 215-224.
  17. Mannan, M.S., Y. Wang, and H.H. West, “QRA Study of an Activated Carbon Filter Safeguard System” Proceedings of Hazards XVII, Institution of Chemical Engineers, Manchester, United Kingdom, March 25-27, 2003, pp. 683-691.
  18. Landes, S.H., H.H. West, E.M. Stafford and M.S. Mannan, “Process Safeguards and Risk Analysis for Offshore Processing,” Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center Symposium, Beyond Regulatory Compliance: Making Safety Second Nature, College Station, Texas, October 24-25, 2000, pp. 432-447.
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College Station, TX 77843-3122
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