Chemical process safety fundamentals with applications

• Main Authors: Crowl, Daniel A. (Author), Louvar, Joseph F. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Pearson Education International 2011
• Edition: Third Edition
• Series: Prentice-Hall international series in the physical and chemical engineering sciences
• Subjects: Chemical plants > Safety measures
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 Chemical Process Safety, Second Edition brings together contributors from both industry and research to deliver the field's most authoritative, complete coverage of techniques for maximizing the safety of chemical processes. A complete update to the book's highly successful first edition, this book covers a broad range of new topics -- and now offers 30 problems per chapter, making it even more useful for courses on chemical process safety. This book has been updated throughout, with especially significant changes in these areas: dispersion modeling, source modeling, flammability characterization, fundamentals of static electricity, and explosion venting. It offers extensive new case histories, as well as important material from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Center for Chemical Process Safety. The authors begin with an overview of the risks of chemical processes, the nature of accidents, leading approaches to chemical engineering safety, and the ethics of chemical engineering. Next, they review the fundamentals of toxicology, showing how toxicants enter and are eliminated from biological organisms; their impact; the dose vs. response relationship; and other key issues. Coverage includes industrial hygiene identification, evaluation, and control; source models of liquid flow; toxic release anddispersion models; the nature and prevention of fires and explosions; the use of reliefs; the identification of hazards; and more.