In recent years, significant progress has been made to ensure that process industries are
among the safest workplaces in the world. However, with the increasing complexity of …

With increasing anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in the environment,
various techniques have been proposed to safely store the generated CO 2. Geological …

This study presents an analytical investigation based on thermodynamic simulation aimed at
achieving a holistic management of the phase assemblages of alkali-activated materials …

The recent devastating earthquakes have caused severe physical, social, and financial
damage worldwide and indicate that many existing buildings, especially in developing …

In this work, we develop a model predictive control scheme for nonlinear systems using
autoencoder-based reduced-order machine learning models. First, an autoencoder is …

Natural gas is an indispensable resource not evenly distributed in the world. The gas supply
chain is characterized by large imbalances between supply and demand, where the …

The latest earthquakes have proven that several existing buildings, particularly in
developing countries, are not secured from damages of earthquake. A variety of statistical …

BLEVE is one of major accidents observed in gas industry causing severe damage to
people and environment. Its effects are manifested in three ways: shock wave propagation …

Explosion is a significant threat to chemical process safety, which often occurs suddenly with
a wide range of impact, resulting in catastrophic disasters. Predictions of explosion hazards …

Maintenance can improve the availability of aging production systems and prevent process
safety incidents. However, because of system complexity, resource allocation is nontrivial …