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Dr. Russell Ogle is a Principal Engineer in Exponent’s Thermal Sciences practice. Dr. Ogle applies his expertise as a chemical engineer to the scientific investigation and prevention of accidents with particular emphasis on fires explosions and chemical releases. Dr. Ogle has investigated hundreds of fires and explosions in industrial commercial and residential settings. He has also investigated accidents involving the warehouse storage and transportation of hazardous materials. He has provided hazard and risk analysis services to the chemical petroleum natural gas pharmaceutical and environmental industries.
His investigations have involved the performance evaluation and failure analysis of a wide range of process equipment. Dr. Ogle has reconstructed complex accident sequences from various sources of evidence including witness interviews process measurement data electronic event logs surveillance videos and examination of physical artifacts. He is especially interested in the relationship between process equipment process control systems safety instrumented systems and human operators. Additionally Dr. Ogle has demonstrated expertise in evaluating the stability of chemicals and their fire and explosion hazards. He has investigated accidents involving self-heating or thermal runaway of chemicals and unintentional chemical reactions of incompatible materials. | 