Phillips 66 incident

A major refinery in Norco, Louisiana, U.S., experienced an explosion on May 5, 1988, resulting from a rupture of an elbow in process piping. Property damages were estimated to be 300 million (U.S., 1988) which was the most costly refinery incident up to that time. (The Phillips Incident in Pasadena, Texas, just 17 months later in October, 1989, experienced property damages two-and-a-half times greater.) This Norco incident had enormous effects on worldwide feedstock supplies. [25]... 

It has been shown by Palmer at the Fire Research Station (FRS) that a crucial variable governing the performance of a flame arrester is the flame speed incident on the arrester. The critical flame speed (minimum speed at which the flame can pass through the arrester) is discussed by Phillips and Pritchard (1986), drawing largely on the FRS work on propane-air mixtures at atmospheric pressure. A simple model based on heat removal from the flame yields the following relation for deflagration flame arresters ... 

Most incidents discussed occurred several years ago, but it should be emphasized that such incidents still occur. More recent incidents include Celanese (1987), Shell (1988), Phillips (1989), and Exxon (1989). 

Chief Phillip A. Napier of the GVW Fire and Rescue Department, who also runs Napier s Hardware Store in downtown Graniteville, South Carolina remembers, We received a call that the train had possibly hit a building in Graniteville. Upon our response, I told the men to report to the station, and I would try to locate the incident site and find out what was involved. And evidently, by listening to the tapes at a later date, it is evident I was already beginning to be disoriented. I couldn t see. I called for an ambulance, and I couldn t say what I wanted it for. When I pulled up to the man on the railroad track, and rolled the window down, he told me they had had a head on collision with the train, they had a chemical leak, and he couldn t breathe. Then he fell to the ground, and later died. 

Interestingly, in a cohort at very high risk for schizophrenia (defined by the presence of subthreshold psychotic symptoms and a family history of schizophrenia), no relationship was found between cannabis use and the incidence of schizophrenia (Phillips et al., 2002). Is it possible that the likehhood of developing schizophrenia was already so high that cannabis use could not add to the final outcome ... 

Kashani A, Phillips CO, Foody JM, et al. Statin use is associated with a low incidence of adverse events. Circulation. 2006 114 2788-2797. 

In the UV work, monomer solutions (20 ml) were prepared In stoppered pyrex tubes In a manner similar to that described previously for the gamma Irradiation system. The tubes were positioned on a motor driven ventilated circulating drum at distances of 12 to 30 cm from the UV source (90 W, high pressure, Hg type 93110E E2, Phillips) at 24 1 C for the appropriate time as shown on the relevant tables. The polymer films were so positioned that, during Irradiation, the surfaces of the films were perpendicular to the Incident radiation. After Irradiation, films and paper strips were treated as for the gamma system. 

Another noteworthy adverse drug reaction (ADR) with a higher incidence in Asian patients on the anticonvulsant drugs carbamazepine and phenytoin is the Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) (Locharernkul et al., 2008). SJS is a serious and potentially life-threatening skin condition. There is a conjecture that this higher risk in SJS is associated with a higher presence of the HLA-B 1502 allele in the Asian population. Phillips et al. (2011) argued that carriers of this allele could also avoid other structurally similar anticonvulsants. 

Irradiation and Alkylation Conditions. X-ray doses of 3-6 Gy were delivered from a Phillip s RTIOO X-ray machine (200 kVp 15 mA with a nominal half value layer of 0.35 cm copper). Cultures were inadiated with an incident dose rate of 1.3 J m s UV light (254 nm). Cultures were exposed to various concentrations of N-methyl-N -nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) (Aldrich Chemical Co., Milwaukee, Wl), MMS (ICN Pharmaceuticals, Hainview, NY), ethyl methanesulfonate(EMS) (ICN Pharmaceuticals), or ethyl nitrosourea (ENU) (a gift of B. Singer, University of California, Berkeley), in tissue culture medium for 60 min to 4 h. 

Ulcickas Yood M, Delorenze G, Quesenberry CP Jr, Tsai AL, Phillips S, Willey VJ, Niemcryk SJ, Wells K, Skovron ML, Cziraky MJ, Carson W, Oliveria SA. Epidemiologic study of aripiprazole use and the incidence of suicide events. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2010 19 1124-30. 

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