Here is a new and analytical approach to chemical plant safety-encompassing design, construction, and operation to reduce the likelihood of hazardous incidents as well as actions to mitigate their consequences should they still occur. The most significant safety issues are addressed both from the viewpoint of the fundamental phenomena and the perspective of plant design. Many of the phenomena covered are outside the scope of the normal chemical engineering curriculae; examples include compressible multiphase flow, deflagrations and detonations, turbulent dispersion, thermochemical characterization methods for material decomposition and reactions. In the plant design area, topics of importance include built in redundancy of equipment, and minimization of inventory of hazardous materials. The combination of the fundamental and applied aspects makes this book a unique and useful one for both the academic and industrial sectors.
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'Banerjee, a chemical and industrial professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, goes deeply into the theory underlying chemical plant safety' Journal of Hazardous Materials, 99(2003)222.
Each chapter is a well-written treatment of a major type of accident that has occurred in the process industries. The case studies that are discussed are well documented and a useful technique for showing how and why specific accidents occurred...this is a well-designed textbook written at a level appropriate for its intended audience of undergraduate engineering students...it is a recommended textbook for academic libraries with undergraduate chemical engineering programs..
–Linda Ackerson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Grainger Engineering Library E-Streams Vol.6, No.8 - August 2003
Each chapter is a well-written treatment of a major type of accident that has occurred in the process industries. The case studies that are discussed are well documented and a useful technique for showing how and why specific accidents occurred...this is a well-designed textbook written at a level appropriate for its intended audience of undergraduate engineering students...it is a recommended textbook for academic libraries with undergraduate chemical engineering programs..
–Linda Ackerson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Grainger Engineering Library E-Streams Vol.6, No.8 - August 2003
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Aspects of industrial processing that may lead to injury and property loss may be considered under two broad, albeit somewhat arbitrarily-defined, categories. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
emergency relief systems, pressure switch contacts, chemical reaction hazards, fireball diameter, relief stream, relief duct, surface emissive power, free plumes, vapor cloud explosions, jet releases, quench liquid, plume axis, mass burning rate, runaway reactions, entrainment velocity, measure vessel, gravity spreading, maximum overpressure, flame velocity, quenching distance, pool diameter, ignition energy, level swell, inhibit gate, air ejector Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Aspects of industrial processing that may lead to injury and property loss may be considered under two broad, albeit somewhat arbitrarily-defined, categories. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
emergency relief systems, pressure switch contacts, chemical reaction hazards, fireball diameter, relief stream, relief duct, surface emissive power, free plumes, vapor cloud explosions, jet releases, quench liquid, plume axis, mass burning rate, runaway reactions, entrainment velocity, measure vessel, gravity spreading, maximum overpressure, flame velocity, quenching distance, pool diameter, ignition energy, level swell, inhibit gate, air ejector Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Elsevier Science, Texas City, San Juan Ixhuatepec, Thorney Island, American Petroleum Institute, European Communities, Symposium Series, Union Carbide, Safety Review, Desert Tortoise, Small Complex, Adiabatic Dewar, Dow Guide, Major Chem, Mexico City, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Piper Alpha, Process Industries, Process Safety Progress, Related Proc, Spill Center, Timer Rel, British Plastics Federation New!
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- Loss Prevention, Second Edition: Hazard Idenitification, Assessment and Control by Frank Lees on 4 pages
- Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures by Center for Chemical Process Safety on page 31, and page 93
- Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases, Third Edition by Bernard Lewis on page 327, and Back Matter
- Assessment of Major Hazards by Institution of Chemical Engineers on page 408, and page 409
- Heavy Gas and Risk Assessment by Sylvius Hartwig on page 407, and page 410
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- Process Dynamics and Control by Dale E. Seborg on page 255
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