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Sonny Sachdeva is a research
scientist at the MKOPSC
(same address as above;
Email: ssachdev@tamu.edu).
She received her Ph.D. in
chemical engineering from
the Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, India. She has
six years of professional experience
in multidisciplinary
research in the areas of membrane
separations, fuel cells,
hydrogen storage, reactive chemicals and fireretardant
materials. She has undertaken many
projects related to industry and government
agencies in the field of process safety.
Delphine Laboureur is a research
scientist at the MKOPSC
(same address as above),
working on a broad range of
process safety research topics,
including offshore safety,
dust explosion, DDT, jet
fires and incident investigations.
She obtained a degree
in mechanical engineering
from Belgium's Université
Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
in 2006, and a diploma course in fluid dynamics
from the von Karman Institute in 2007. In 2012,
she received her Ph.D. from the Université Libre
de Bruxelles (ULB) for the work she performed
at the von Karman Institute in collaboration
with the Ecole des Mines d'Alès, in a joint project
financed by the CEA Gramat. The objectives of
the thesis were the experimental characterization
and the modeling of hazards.
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Zhe Han is a research assistant
at Texas A&M University's
(TAMU) Mary Kay
O'Connor Process Safety Center
(MKOPSC; 3122 TAMU,
College Station, TX 77843;
Phone: 979-255-9259; Email:
zhehan@tamu.edu; Website:
www.process-safety.tamu.
edu). She has extensive experience
with process safety
that includes several safetyrelated
research areas and industrial safety projects,
with specialization in reactive chemicals.
Her present research topic focuses on reducing
ammonium nitrate explosion hazards. She was
educated at Tsinghua University in China, where
she earned a B.S.Ch.E. Currently, she is pursuing
a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at TAMU.
22. Wei, C., Rogers, W.J. and Mannan, M.S.,
Thermal Decomposition Hazard Evaluation
of Hydroxylamine Nitrate, Journal of Hazardous
Materials, Vol. 130, Issue (1-2), pp.
163-168, 2006.
23. Cisneros-Trevino, L.O., Adiabatic Calorimetric
Studies of Hydroxylamine Compounds,
Ph.D. dissertation, Texas A&M University,
College Station, Tex., 2002.
24. Adamopoulou, T., and others, Use of Isoperibolic
Calorimetry for the Study of the Effect
of Water Concentration, Temperature and
Reactor Venting on the Rate of Hydroxylamine
Thermal Decomposition, Journal of Loss
Prevention in the Process Industries, Vol. 25,
Issue 5, pp. 803-808, 2012.
25. Papadaki, M.I., and others, Thermal Behavior
of Aqueous Solutions of Hydroxylamine
During Isothermal and Isoperibolic Decomposition
in a Closed System, Journal of
Chemical & Engineering Data, Vol. 54, Issue
9, pp. 2,616-2,621, 2009.
26. Carreto-Vazquez, V.H., and others, ChipScale
Calorimeters: Potential Uses in Chemical
Engineering, Journal of Loss Prevention
in the Process Industries, Vol. 24, Issue 1, pp.
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Sunder Janardanan is pursuing
his Ph.D. in chemical
engineering at TAMU (same
address as above; Phone: 979575-5664;
Email: sunder.74@
gmail.com). He completed his
B.S.Ch.E. at the Institute of
Chemical Technology (ICT) in
Mumbai, India. He is a part of
the reactive chemicals group
at the MKOPSC. His research
objective is to improve the
overall safety of the n-oxide synthesis process
by identifying the conditions where homogeneity
exists. Apart from this, he is also involved in
many projects related to process safety.
Wen Zhu is a research assistant
and Ph.D. student
in the chemical engineering
department at TAMU (same
address as above; Phone: 979587-4662;
Email: wenzhu@
tamu.edu). She has experience
related to the study of
reactive chemicals and her
main research interest is risk
assessment of the oxidations
of hydrogen peroxide. She received
her B.S.Ch.E. from Tianjin University of
China in 2013.
Sam Mannan is regents
professor and director of the
MKOPSC (same address as
above). Before joining TAMU,
he was vice president at RMT,
Inc., a nationwide engineering
services company. In that
capacity, he was the national
program manager for the Process
Safety and Risk Assessment
projects. His experience
is wide-ranging, covering various
aspects related to process design, process
safety and risk assessment in the CPI. Mannan
is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions
from AIChE, TAMU and IChemE, including
the recent " Bush Excellence Award " for Faculty
in Public Service. Prof. Mannan received
his B.S.Ch.E. from the Engineering University
in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1978, and obtained an
M.S.Ch.E. in 1983 and Ph.D. in 1986 from the
University of Oklahoma.
27. Pineda, A., Design of Inherently Safer Complex
Reactive Processes: Application on the
N-oxidation of Alkyl Pyridines, Ph.D. Dissertation,
Texas A&M University, College Station,
Tex., 2014.
28. Hofelich, T.C. and La Barge, M.S., On the Use
and Misuse of Detected Onset Temperature
of Calorimetric Experiments for Reactive
Chemicals, Journal of Loss Prevention in the
Process Industries, Vol. 15, pp. 163-168, 2002.
29. Vechot, L., and others, Round Robin Vent
Sizing Exercise on a Gassy System: 40% Dicumyl
Peroxide in Butyrate Solvent, Hazard
XII, 2011.
30. Barton, J. and Rogers, R., " Chemical Reaction
Hazards: A Guide to Safety, " Gulf Publishing
Company, Second Edition, 1997.
31. Mannan, M.S. and Waldram, S.P., Learning
Lessons from Incidents: A Paradigm Shift is
Overdue, Process Safety and Environmental
Protection, 2014.
32. ABET Board of Directors, Criteria for Accrediting
Engineering Programs, Effective
for Reviews During the 2013-2014 Accreditation
Cycle, Accreditation Board for Engineering
and Technology, 2012.
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