Dr. Sam Mannan, Executive Director mannan@tamu.edu Office: 246 JEB Office: 979-862-3985 Cell: 979-450-2301 Birthday: 11/10

Richard Gustafson Gus-tafson_rm@tamu.edu Office: 518 JEB Cell: 713-828-8490 Birthday 5/12 PhD MSEN

Pranav Kannan Pranav.kannan92 @tamu.edu Office: 513 JEB Cell: 979-739-7997 Birthday: 1/29 PhD CHEN Co-Advisor: Vaddiraju

Susmitha Purnima Kotu Sushkotu@tamu.edu Office: 513 JEB Cell: 774-420-6179 Birthday: 07/16 PhD CHEN

Ning Gan Ninggan@tamu.edu Office: 417 JEB Cell:612-483-2402 Birthday: 2/10 PhD CHEN

Lubna Ahmed Lubna.ahmed@tamu.edu Office: 609 JEB Cell: 979-739-7463 Birthday: 4/6 PhD CHEN

Mengxi (Marcy) Yu yuxxx433@tamu.edu Office: 609 JEB Cell:612-670-9885 Birthda:y: 1/26 PhD CHEN

Dr. Noor Al Quddus, Research Associate nooralquddus@tamu.edu Office: 418 JEB Cell: 979-985-1330 Birthday: 12/4

Cassio Ahumada cassioahumada@ gmail.com Office: 307 JEB Cell: 979-739-2522 Birthday: 10/26 PhD CHEN

Yue Sun yuesun@tamu.edu Office: 307 JEB Cell: 979-985-0919 Birthday: 8/16

Edna Mendez Edna.mendez@tamu.edu Office: 420 JEB Cell: 979-402-6636 Birthday: 6/18 PhD CHEN

Zohra Halim zohrahalim@tamu.edu Office: 424 JEB Cell: 979-676-7504 Birthday: 9/19 PhD CHEN

Dr. Yogesh Koirala, Research Associate ykoirala@tamu.edu Office: 223A Phone: 979-208-9014 Birthday: 12/2

Dr. Bin Zhang, Research Associate zhixintx@tamu.edu Office: 418 JEB Cell: 979-587-9663 Birthday: 10/14

Yan-Ru Lin, PhD CHEN swancloud@tamu.edu Office: 422 JEB Cell: 936-349-7325 Birthday: 11/29

Bharatvaaj Ravi vaaj26@tamu.edu Office: 422 JEB Cell: 774-262-5215 Birthday: 07/26 MS CHEN

Pritishma Lakhe Pritishma@tamu.edu Office: 405 JEB Cell: 636-259-0355 Birthday: 9/3 PhD CHEN

Yang-Denis Su-Feher denis@tamu.edu Office: 609 JEB Cell: 408-838-8716 Birthday: 11/6 PhD CHEN

Shuai Yuan sy2516@tamu.edu Office: 609 JEB Cell: 917-690-1208 Birthday: 09/07 PhD CHEN

Joshiba Ariamuthu Venkidasalapathy joshvenkat03@tamu.edu Office: 417 JEB Cell: 979-402-9823 Birthday: 06/03 Co-Advisor: Kravaris PhD CHEN

Lihan Zeng Lihan_zeng@tamu.edu Office: 417 JEB Cell: 713-582-5653 Birthday: 12/05 MS CHEN

Dr. Guanlan Liu, Research Associate luglant@tamu.edu Office: 223B JEB Cell: 979-587-9518 Birthday: 12/23

Richa Sarkar richak287@yahoo.com Office: 424 JEB Cell: 614-377-6104 Birthday: MS SENG

Shiqi Chen Shiqi_chen@tamu.edu Office: 417 JEB Cell: 979– 213-2829 Birthday: 10/02 MS CHEN

Yueqi Shen yueqishen@tamu.edu Office: 422 JEB Cell: 979-985-1078 Birthday: 08/30 PhD CHEN

Abhishek Proddutoor Ab-hishek.proddutoor@gmail.com Office: 417 JEB Cell: 805-559-3730 Birthday: 4/09 MS SENG

Monir Ahammad, PhD CHEN monir@tamu.edu Office: 405 JEB Cell:979-204-1734 Birthday: 1/1

Chenxi Ji chenxiji@tamu.edu Office: 420 JEB Cell: 281-684-9178 Birthday: 07/03 MS SENG

Visalatchi Palaniappan Salu.visa@gmail.com Cell: 979-703-0497 Office: 422 JEB Birthday: MS SENG

Pranav Bagaria Pra-nav.bagaria@tamu.edu Office: 611 Cell: 979-985-0846 Birthday: 10/30 PhD CHEN

Wen Zhu wenzhu@tamu.edu Office: 403 JEB Cell: 979-587-4662 Birthday: 08/21 PhD CHEN

Purvali Chaudhari purvali28@tamu.edu Office: Cell: 979 739 0644 Birthday : 8/28

PhD CHEN

Yan Cui ycui@tamu.edu Office: Cell: 713-591-6815 Birthday: 6/13

Haitian Han haitian0213@tamu.edu Office: 403 JEB Cell: 979-402-6398 Birthday: 02/13 MS SENG

Dr. Chad Mashuga, Assistant Professor mashuga@tamu.edu Office: 979-845-3339 Labs: 612, 634, 636

Pratik Krishnan pratik@tamu.edu Cell: 979-985-0839 Birthday: 10/07 PhD CHEN

Guanyang Liu Saturatepower@

126.com

Birthday: 07/23

PhD CHEN

Process Safety Center Directory

Faisal Alshethry shethry@gmail.com Office: 422 JEB Cell: 979-213-2222 Birthday: 05/30 MS SENG

Jingyao Wang jw756@tamu.edu Office: 420 JEB Cell: 7329100929 Birthday: 09/13 PhD CHEN

Yongchul Cho diego1798@tamu.edu Cell: 321-986-9117 Birthday 2/17 MS CHEN

Dr. Harendra Mondal, Research Associate, Lab Manager hnmondal@gmail.com Office: 418 JEB Cell: 281-677-1216 Birthday:

Jeremy Ikeog-chitown_00@tamu.edu Cell: 214-335-8933 Birthday: 1/3 PhD CHEN

Lin Zhao linzhao@tamu.edu Cell: 310-849-0723 Birthday: 10/9 PhD CHEN

Harold Escobar Hu.escobar2208@tamu.edu Cell: 979-402-3395 Birthday: 05/01 PhD CHEN

Nitish Kelekar nitish220294@tamu.edu Cell: 979-900-7036 Birthday: 2/22 MS CHEN

Ahmed Harhara Ahmed.harhara @tamu.edu Cell: 313-208-5233 Birthday: 11/1 PhD CHEN

Zeren Jiao jiaozeren@tamu.edu Cell: 979-985-0411 Birthday: 7/17 MS CHEN

Christopher Gordon ckagordon@tamu.edu Cell: 979-900-8240 Birthday: 5/3 PhD CHEN

Hallie Graham Office: 426 JEB elle819@tamu.edu Cell: 214-478-5490 Birthday: 10/5 PhD CHEN

Yuhe Tian ytian@tamu.edu Cell: 979-422-3633 Birthday: 4/13 PhD CHEN Co Advised: Kravaris/Pistikopoulos

Jyoti Sharma Jyoti.sharma@tamu.edu Office: Cell: Birthday : 8/28

MS CHEN

Faculty Fellows Students

Process Safety Center Directory

Dr. Delphine Laboureur, Adjunct Faculty delphinelaboureur@gmail.com Office: 418 JEB Cell: 979-324-8166 Birthday: 4/15

Visiting Scholars

Mingguang Zhang mingguang_zhang

@163.com

Office: 426

Faculty/Fellows John Bresland Research Fellow JohnSBresland@

tamu.edu

Dr. Jai Gupta Adjunct Professor jgupta@rgipt.ac.in

Dr. Simon Waldram Research Fellow waldram@blueyonder.

co.uk

Scott Davis Adjunct Professor sgdavis@gexcon.com

Dr. Hans Pasman Research Professor hjpasman@gmail.com Office: 238 JEB Birthday: 2/3

Dr. Ray Mentzer

ramentzer@comcast.net

Cell: 936-443-5579

Birthday: 12/1

Ahmad Al-Dari TBD

Ali Azhar Nanowires for Thermoelectric Applications Yixi Chen A Novel Approach of Large-Scale Synthesis and Assembly of

Nanostructured Materials

Xiahong Cui Steady-state and Dynamic Analysis of N-oxidation of Alkylpyridines by Hydrogen Peroxide in a CSTR

Shimaa Hassan TBD

Yimin He Counterfactual Thinking and Safety Behavior

Travis Sikes Burning Velocity of Suspended Dust Mixtures

Changwon Son Humans, Teams and Technologies and Their Effects on Resilience of Complex Systems'

Lecheng Zhang TBD

Faculty Fellow Research Topics

Nafiz Tamim Ne_tamim@tamu.edu Office: 405 JEB Cell: 979-587-4781 PhD CHEN

Co-Advisor: Dr. Hasan

Monir Ahammad monir@tamu.edu Office: 405 JEB Cell:979-204-1734 Birthday: 1/1 PhD CHEN

Tatiana Flechas tatianafle-chas@yahoo.com Office: 424 JEB Cell: 979-985-0265 Birthday: 8/31 PhD CHEN

Jiayong (Chris) Zhu jychriszhu@tamu.edu Office: 609 JEB Cell: 408-583-7304 Birthday: 12/13 PhD CHEN

Ankita Taneja

ankita-

taneja@tamu.edu

Office: 405 JEB

Cell: 813-507-8618

Birthday: 8/15

MS CHEN

Prerna Jain Prernajain1611@gmail.com Office: 403 JEB Cell:979-985-0773 Birthday: 11/16 PhD CHEN

Distance Learning Students Sean Classen Jeffrey Fox Gary Houghton Mohammad Kazmi Hana Warren Moataz Nour Courtney Pierce Colin Stuart Ping Zhao Guillermo Somuano Shannon McKibben Tracey Hanna

seanzie@tamu.edu jlfox100@tamu.edu ghought2@tamu.edu Mohammad.kazmi@qatar.tamu.edu hjgilliam@tamu.edu Moataz_nour@tamu.edu clcrphillips@tamu.edu colindstuart@gmail.com zpipi1980@tamu.edu Guillermo.somuano@amecfw.com smckibben@tamu.edu thanna88@gmail.com

Sankhadeep Sarkar sankhadeep_1987@tamu.edu Cell: 979-739-3402 Birthday: 11/07 MS SENG

Xiaohong Cui Xhcui.zju@tamu.edu Office: 607 JEB Cell: 979-450-3970 Birthday: 9/11 PhD CHEN Advisor: Dr. Wilhite

Travis Sikes ace2187@tamu.edu Office: 206 Turbo Lab Cell: 713-594-4884 Birthday: 12/21 MS MEEN Advisor: Petersen

Yimin He yiminhe@tamu.edu MS PSYCH Advisor: Dr. Payne

Yixi Chen ychen-wpi@tamu.edu PhD CHEN Advisor: Dr. Vaddiraju

Ali Azhar azhar.ali@tamu.edu PhD CHEN Advisor: Dr. Vaddiraju

Shimaa Hassan Shimaa.khidir@gmail.com MS SENG Co-Advisor: Dr. El-Halwagi

Karla Gonzalez kalleyranch08@tamu .edu PhD ISEN Advisor: Dr. Peres

Changwon Son coralx@neo.tamu.edu Office: 4050 ETB Cell: 202-413-2491 Birthday: 06/30 PhD SENG Advisor: Dr. Sasangohar Co-advisor: Dr. Peres

Lecheng Zhang zlcber-nie@tamu.edu Cell: 832-335-8038 PhD CHEN Co-Advisor: Dr. Cheng

Ahmad Al-Douri al-douah@tamu.edu Cell: 979-571-5952 Birthday: 11/10 Co-advisor: Dr. El Halwagi

Andrew Napaporn wongwa-rann@tamu.edu Cell: 5127123888 Birthday: 12/27 MS CHEN

Pankaj Goel pankaj.5363@gmail.com Cell: 979-661-6177 Office: 237A WEB Birthday 4/29 PhD ELEN Advisor: Dr. Datta

Student Workers

Chelsea Reddic c_reddic7@tamu.edu Office: 244 JEB Office: 979-845-3489 Cell: 210-417-6548 Birthday: 11/11

Veronica Valdivia vvaldivia@tamu.edu Office: 244 JEB Office: 979-845-3489 Cell: 281-210-8753 Birthday: 01/04

Alpha George al-pha.george@tamu.edu Office: 244 JEB Office: 979-721-0815 Cell: 281-210-8753 Birthday: 04/11

Amol Bansod amol.jayant.bansod@tamu.edu Office: 244 JEB Office: 979-845-3489 Cell: 979-721-1275 Birthday: 07/15

Yosvani Escamilla ye15@tamu.edu Office: 244 JEB Office: 979-845-3489 Cell: 956-222-1020 Birthday: 11/30

Elisa Benedetti U. San Buenaventura benedettielis-sa@hotmail.com Cell: 979-739-0912 Birthday: 06/29 Office: 426

Arturo Jimenez Artu-

ro@iqcelaya.itc.mx

Sunhwa Park sunh9@tamu.edu Office: 420 JEB Cell: 979-985-7448 Birthday: 08/20 MS SENG -Yan Ru

Graduating Jake Marek mare1577@tamu.edu Office: 424 JEB Cell: 281-414-2497 Birthday: 6/18 MS SENG

Mannan

Juliana A. Guarguati juliana_guarguati@tamu .edu Office: 307 JEB Cell: 972-357-4696 Birthday: 11/21

Yizhi Hong Hongcome@tamu.edu Office: 420 JEB Cell: 979-255-1631 Birthday: 2/14 PhD CHEN

Nilesh Ade Nilesh14@tamu.edu Office: 307 JEB Cell: 979-985-7325 Birthday: 07/01 MS CHEN Guanlan

Nitin Roy Nitin.roy@tamu.edu Office: 332 JEB Cell: 979-575-6306 Birthday: 9/19 PhD CHEN

Mannan

Sunder Janardanan sunderj.74@gmail.com Office: 424 JEB Cell: 979-575-5664 Birthday: 10/13 PhD CHEN Mannan

Valerie Green Val-green@tamu.edu Office: 246A JEB Office: 979-845-6884 Cell: 979-255-9232

Alanna Scheinerman ascheinerman@tamu.edu Office: 245 JEB Office: 979-845-5981 Cell: 860-810-4371 Birthday: 8/09

Staff Azucena White azucwhite@ exchange.tamu.edu Office: 244 JEB Cell: 979-255-9281 Birthday: 03/05

Susana Leon Caceres susanaleonca-ceres@gmail.com Office: 403 JEB Cell: 979-703-9335 Birthday: 11/19 MS SENG

Process Safety Center Directory

Jim Pettigrew OESI jim.pettigrew@tamu.edu Office: 400 JEB Office: 979-458-2759

Directors

MKOPSC Doha Luc Vechot Assistant Professor luc.vechot@qatar.tamu.edu

Internal Lab Inspection Team

Purvali Chaudhari Nilesh Ade Jingyao Wang

Lab Safety Inspection Team

Interns

Stefany Lombana stefylombana@ gmail.com Cell: 979-331-6501 Birthday: 7/10 Leader: Monir U. San Buenaventura

Ingry Ruiz Ingryruiz27@gmail.com Cell: 979-341-9220 Birthday: 5/27 Leader: Dr. Zhang U. San Buenaventura

Intern Research Specifics Chunyu Jiang

Application of the Flacs to Study Hydrogen Sulfide Dispersion in Petro-chemical Plant

Ni Lei Thermal Runaway Risk of Batch and Semi-Batch Reactors

Jing Li A new synergistic flame retardant system containing zirconium phosphate

and ammonium polyphosphate as retardant materials

Anqi Liu VOCs(Volatile Organic Compounds) Component Analysis and Emission

Control in Petrochemical Refinery

Stefany Lombana Theoretical Reactivity Evaluation of Hydroxylamine Systems Using Kinetic

Modeling Approach Andres Hernandez TBD

Ingry Ruiz Application of the Density Functional Theory (DFT) to Study the Decompo-

sition Pathway of Nitroarenes

Karen Silgado Prediction Analysis of Atmospheric Dispersion in High-pressure Carbon

Dioxide Releases

Haoyi Wang Quantitative Risk Monitoring Based on Bayesian Network in Chemical Plant

Lab Phone Numbers

Research Areas Aerosol: Yan-Ru, Shuai Corrosion: Rich G., Susmitha, Pranav K., Edna , Lihan Decontamination: Dust: Pranav B., Purvali, Haitian, Bharatvaaj Flame-Retardant Materials: Lubna Fires and Explosives: Monir, Ning, Abhishek, Ankita LNG: Dushyant, Monir, Chenxi Offshore: Nafiz, Susana Optimization: Nitin, Prerna Reactive: Wen, Yue, Pritishma, Yueqi, Xiaohong, Sunder, Jingyao, Guanyang, Shiqi Dispersion Modeling: Jiayong, Tatiana Risk Assessment and Uncertainty: Yizhi, Prerna, Zohra, Chenxi, Susana, Sunhwa Pipeline: Joshiba, Yan Cui Data Mining: Mengxi Inherently Safer Design: Nilesh, Denis Land-use Planning: Jake, Cassio Human Factors: Juliana

MKOPSC Doha Students

Jack Altwal

jack54321@tamu.edu

408-391-3054 PhD CHEN Co-Advised: Dr. Mannan

Atif Ashraf

atif4all@tamu.edu

PhD CHEN

Mohamed Kazmi

PhD CHEN

Nepu Saha Nepu.saha@tamu.edu

PhD CHEN

Nisa Ulumuddin nisaulumud-din@tamu.edu

PhD CHEN

Safwan Ghannam Safouane.ghannem@email.tamu.edu

PhD CHEN

Lab 402 (Aerosol): 979-862-1446 Lab 412 (Flammability): 979-862-1308 Lab 414 (Dust Explosion): 979-862-1308 Lab 429 (ARSST): 979-862-1313 Lab 430 (APATAC, GC-MG Reactivity): 979-862-1313 Lab 431 (RC-1): 979-862-1313 Lab 612 (Dust Characterization): 979-862-1420 Lab 634: 979-845-5484 Lab 636: 979-862-1391

Cassio Ahumada Nafiz Tamim Pranav Kannan Edna Mendez

Yan-Ru Ning, Monir Pranav B. Wen Lubna Sunder Dr. Mashuga Dr. Mashuga Dr. Mashuga

Researchers Mike O’Connor mikeocon@gmail.com Office: 243 JEB Incident Database Analysis

Dr. Bill Rogers wjrogers@tamu.edu Office: 418 JEB Cell: 979-255-3074 Birthday: 4/10

Tan Liu Tan-liu2014@hotmail.com

Cell: 979-215-8699

Birthday: 01/08

Office: 426

Zhan Dou chemydw@hotmail.com Cell: 979-215-8699 Birthday: 11/23 Office:426

Agnes Aina

Agnes.morah@tamu.edu

Cell: 832-677-0226

Birthday: 06/01

Leader: Dr. Koirala

Texas A&M

Karen Silgado silgado.k@tamu.edu Cell: 979-739-1105 Birthday: 3/15 Leader: Dr. Liu U. San Buenaventura

Hongru Liu 185886674@qq.com Cell: 979-229-6727 Birthday: 07/24

Rohg Xia xro124@qq.com Cell: 979-383-9586 Birthday: 01/24/95

Lin Lin Wang 84573436@qq.com Cell: 932-528-8533 Office: 233 JEB Birthday: 10/23

Longzhu Sun slzbiz@126.com Cell: 832-528-8595 Birthday: 7/30

Process Safety Center Directory Research Specifics

Nilesh Ade

Lubna Ahmed

Monir Ahammad

Pranav Bagaria

Joshiba A.V

Susana Leon Caceras

Dushyant Chaudhari

Purvali Chaudhari

Shiqi Chen

Yan Cui

Tatiana Flechas

Ning Gan

Pankaj Goel

Juliana Guarguati

Richard Gustafson

Zohra Halim

Haitian Han

Yizhi Hong

Prerna Jain

Sunder Janardanan

Chenxi Ji

Pranav Kannan

Susmitha Kotu

Pritishma Lakhe

Yan-Ru Lin

Yashfin Mahid

Jake Marek

Edna Mendez

Visalatchi Palaniappan

Sunhwa Park

Abhishek Proddutoor

Bharatvaaj Ravi

Nitin Roy

Richa Sarkar

Yueqi Shen

Changwon Son

Denis Su-Feher

Yue Sun

Nafiz Tamim

Ankita Taneja

Jingyao Wang

Mengxi Yu

Shuai Yuan

Lihan Zeng

Jiayong Zhu

Wen Zhu

MKOPSC– Qatar

Atif Ashraf

Mohamed Kazmi

Nepu Saha

Nisa Ulumuddin

Studying the Relationship between Inherently Safer Design and Equipment Reliability

Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer Nanocomposites for Fundamental Understanding of Flammability and Thermal Degradation Kinetics

CFD Modelling of Cryogenic Phase Change to Estimate LNG Vaporization Source-Term

Effect of Dispersion and Morphology on Combustible Dust Particle Integrity and Explosion Hazards

Develop a Systematic Procedure for Alarm Identification with Application to The Tennessee Eastman Process Control Problem

Process Safety Problems Caused by Hydrate Formation in Deepwater Production Operations

Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to Simulate LNG pool fires

Effect of Partial Inerting on Minimum Ignition Characteristics of Dusts

Develop a Methodology for Process Selection in Pharmaceutical Industry Based on Inherent Safety Consideration: A Case Study on Batch vs. Continuous Process

Application of Bayesian Network in Risk Assessment of Corrosion

Modeling of Flashing Fluids Discharging Through a Pipeline Puncture

Flammability Characteristics of Light Hydrocarbons and Mixtures at Elevated Conditions

Decision Support Systems—A Tool for Alarm Management

Systems Approach to Improve Learning from Incidents

Effects of Hydrogen on the Strength and Fracture Characteristics of Multigrain Metals

Cumulative Risk Assessment Model to Analyze Increased Risk due to Impaired Barriers in Offshore Drilling Rigs

Dust-Gas Hybrid Minimum Ignition Energy Prediction

Application of Fuzzy Logic to Quantify the Uncertainty in Layer of Protection Analysis

Resilience Analysis Framework for Process Design and Operations

Phase Equilibrium Studies on N-oxidation Systems to Identify Inherently Safer Operating Conditions

Quantitative Risk Assessment of LNG-FSRU System Based on Multi-Attribute Decision Analysis (MADA) Model

Towards the Development of a Biosensor for the Detection of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion in Pipelines

Integration of Electron Impedance Spectroscopy and Microfluidics for Investigating Microbially Influenced Corrosion using Co-culture Biofilms

Study of Safer Scale Up, Storage, and Handling of Graphite Oxide

Flame Propagation Speed of Aerosols Generated by Electrospray

Human Factors in Offshore Operations

Land-Use Planning in Relation to Chemical Facilities and Associated Issues

Effects of Fluid Flow Conditions on the Performance of Corrosion Inhibitors in Pipes

Development of a Tool for Pipeline Risk Assessment

Application of New Automated HAZID Methods for More Comprehensive Identification of Hazardous Scenarios

Systematic Analysis of Spontaneously Combustible Substances

Study of Factors Affecting Dust Explosions of Non Traditional Dust Materials

Incorporation of Process Safety in Design and Optimization of Hazardous Chemical Supply Chain Networks

Safety in design of Heat Transfer Systems

Inherently Safer Conditions for the Oxidation of p-Xylene to Terephthalic Acid

Human Factors Methods to Enhance Resilience of Emergency Operations

Quantifying Ease of Control for Inherently Safer Design

Process Hazards Evaluation and Safer Design for Oxidation of Secondary Alcohol to Ketone Using Hydrogen Peroxide

A Framework for Developing Leading Indicators for Offshore Blowout Incidents

Flare Radiation Criteria and Flare Design

Inherent Safer Reactor via Changeover from Batch to Continuous Operation

Weak Signal Detection Using Data Mining Techniques

Aerosol Generation and Combustion Modelling Study

The Integrated Model for CO2/H2S Internal Corrosion Pipeline

Hydrogen Sulfide Gas Mixture Dispersion Modeling

Thermal Risk Analysis of Nitro Aromatic Compounds in the Presence of other Chemicals

Study of the Infiltration of Toxic Gases in Non-Process Areas

Study of Polyethylene Dust and Sulfur Dust Explosion Characteristics

Assessment of Maximum Gas Production Rate of an Untempered System Under Runaway Conditions

Modeling of LNG Pool Spreading on Land