Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications, 4th Edition

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The #1 Process Safety Guide, Now Extensively Updated for Current Industrial Processes, Systems, and Practices

Process safety has seen a dramatic consolidation of concepts in the past few years. Chemical Process Safety, Fourth Edition, provides students and working engineers with the understanding necessary to apply these new concepts to safely design and operate any process.

Long the definitive guide in the field, this edition fully reflects major recent advances in process safety technology and practice. Readers will find extensive new and updated coverage of relief sizing, hazards identification, risk assessment, and many other topics. Several chapters have been completely rewritten, and all are substantially modified. This textbook includes 50 new problems and solutions (mostly in SI units), and 25 new case histories.

• Safety culture
• Preventive and mitigative safeguards
• The CCPS 20 elements of Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS)
• Toxicology, industrial hygiene, and source models
• Hazardous material dispersion
• Fires, explosions, and concepts for preventing them
• Chemical reactivity
• Reliefs and relief sizing
• Hazards identification and evaluation
• Risk analysis and assessment, including Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
• Safety strategies, procedures, designs, case histories, and lessons learned

Crowl and Louvar link key academic concepts to modern industrial practice, making this guide invaluable for all engineering students and for all working engineers.

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Table of contents

1. Cover Page
2. About This eBook
3. Half-Title Page
4. Title Page
5. Copyright Page
6. Contents
7. Preface
   1. Acknowledgments
   1. 1-1 Engineering Ethics
   2. 1-2 Myths about Process Safety
   3. 1-3 Safety Culture
   4. 1-4 Individual Risk, Societal Risk, and Risk Populations
   5. 1-5 Voluntary and Involuntary Risk
   6. 1-6 Safety Metrics
   7. 1-7 Accident and Loss Statistics
   8. 1-8 Risk Perception
   9. 1-9 Risk Tolerance/Acceptance and Risk Matrix
   10. 1-10 Codes, Standards, and Regulations
   11. 1-11 Safeguards
   12. 1-12 The CCPS 20 Elements of Risk-Based Process Safety
   13. 1-13 Inherently Safer Design
   14. 1-14 The Worst Chemical Plant Tragedy: Bhopal, India, 1984
   15. 1-15 Overview of Chemical Process Safety
   16. Suggested Reading
   17. Problems
   1. 2-1 How Toxicants Enter the Body
   2. 2-2 How Toxicants Are Eliminated from the Body
   3. 2-3 Effects of Toxicants on the Body
   4. 2-4 Toxicological Studies
   5. 2-5 Dose versus Response
   6. 2-6 Dose and Response Using Probit Equation
   7. 2-7 Relative Toxicity
   8. 2-8 Threshold Limit Values
   9. Online Resources
   10. Suggested Reading
   11. Problems
   1. 3-1 Anticipating and Identifying Hazardous Workplace Exposures
   2. 3-2 Globally Harmonized System
   3. 3-3 Evaluate the Magnitude of Exposures and Responses
   4. 3-4 Develop and Evaluate Control Techniques to Prevent Exposures
   5. 3-5 National Fire Protection Association Diamond
   6. Online Resources
   7. Suggested Reading
   8. Problems
   1. 4-1 Introduction to Source Models
   2. 4-2 Flow of Liquid through a Hole
   3. 4-3 Flow of Liquid through a Hole in a Tank
   4. 4-4 Flow of Liquids through Pipes
   5. 4-5 Flow of Gases or Vapors through Holes
   6. 4-6 Flow of Gases or Vapors through Pipes
   7. 4-7 Flashing Liquids
   8. 4-8 Liquid Pool Evaporation or Boiling
   9. 4-9 Realistic and Worst-Case Releases
   10. 4-10 Conservative Analysis
   11. Suggested Reading
   12. Problems
   1. 5-1 Parameters Affecting Dispersion
   2. 5-2 Neutrally Buoyant Dispersion Models
   3. 5-3 Pasquill–Gifford Model
   4. 5-4 Dense Gas Dispersion
   5. 5-5 Toxic Effect Criteria
   6. 5-6 Release Prevention and Mitigation
   7. Suggested Reading
   8. Problems
   1. 6-1 The Fire Triangle
   2. 6-2 Distinction between Fires and Explosions
   3. 6-3 Definitions
   4. 6-4 Flammability Characteristics of Liquids and Vapors
   5. 6-5 Flammability Characteristics of Dusts
   6. 6-6 Sprays and Mists
   7. 6-7 Ignition Energy
   8. 6-8 Ignition Sources
   9. 6-9 Experimental Characterization of Gas/Vapor and Dust Explosions
   10. 6-10 Explosions
   11. Suggested Reading
   12. Problems
   1. 7-1 Inerting
   2. 7-2 Static Electricity
   3. 7-3 Controlling Static Electricity
   4. 7-4 Explosion-Proof Equipment and Instruments
   5. 7-5 Ventilation
   6. 7-6 Sprinkler Systems
   7. 7-7 Industry’s Fire and Explosion Protection Strategy
   8. Suggested Reading
   9. Problems
   1. 8-1 Background Understanding
   2. 8-2 Commitment, Awareness, and Identification of Reactive Chemical Hazards
   3. 8-3 Characterization of Reactive Chemical Hazards Using Calorimeters
   4. 8-4 Controlling Reactive Hazards
   5. Suggested Reading
   6. Problems
   1. 9-1 Relief Concepts
   2. 9-2 Definitions
   3. 9-3 Code Requirements
   4. 9-4 Relief System Design
   5. 9-5 Relief Types and Characteristics
   6. 9-6 Relief Installation Practices
   7. 9-7 Relief Effluent Handling
   8. Suggested Reading
   9. Problems
   1. 10-1 Set Pressure and Accumulation Limits for Reliefs
   2. 10-2 Relief Sizing for Liquid Service
   3. 10-3 Relief Sizing for Vapor and Gas Service
   4. 10-4 Two-Phase Flow during Runaway Reaction Relief
   5. 10-5 Deflagration Venting for Dust and Vapor Explosions
   6. 10-6 Venting for Fires External to the Process
   7. 10-7 Reliefs for Thermal Expansion of Process Fluids
   8. Suggested Reading
   9. Problems
   1. 11-1 Introduction to Hazard Identification/Evaluation and Risk Analysis
   2. 11-2 Non-Scenario-Based Hazard Identification/Evaluation Methods
   3. 11-3 Scenario-Based Hazard Identification/Evaluation Methods
   4. 11-4 Documentation and Actions Required for Hazard Identification and Evaluation
   5. Problems
   1. 12-1 Review of Probability Theory
   2. 12-2 Event Trees
   3. 12-3 Fault Trees
   4. 12-4 Bow-Tie Diagrams
   5. 12-5 Quantitative Risk Analysis
   6. 12-6 Layer of Protection Analysis
   7. 12-7 Risk Assessment
   8. Suggested Reading
   9. Problems
   1. 13-1 Process Safety Strategies
   2. 13-2 Safe Operating Procedures
   3. 13-3 Safe Work Practices
   4. 13-4 Designs for Process Safety
   5. 13-5 Designs for Runaway Reactions
   6. 13-6 Designs and Practices for the Safe Handling of Dusts
   7. Suggested Reading
   8. Problems
   1. 14-1 Process Safety Culture
   2. 14-2 Compliance with Standards
   3. 14-3 Process Safety Competency
   4. 14-4 Workplace Involvement
   5. 14-5 Stakeholder Outreach
   6. 14-6 Process Knowledge Management
   7. 14-7 Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis
   8. 14-8 Operating Procedures
   9. 14-9 Safe Work Practices
   10. 14-10 Asset Integrity and Reliability
   11. 14-11 Contractor Management
   12. 14-12 Training and Performance Assurance
   13. 14-13 Management of Change
   14. 14-14 Operational Readiness
   15. 14-15 Conduct of Operations
   16. 14-16 Emergency Management
   17. 14-17 Incident Investigation
   18. 14-18 Measurement and Metrics
   19. 14-19 Auditing
   20. 14-20 Management Review and Continuous Improvement
   21. 14-21 Summary
   22. Suggested Reading
   23. Problems
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   Product information

   • Title: Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications, 4th Edition
   • Author(s): Daniel A. Crowl, Joseph F. Louvar
   • Release date: June 2019
   • Publisher(s): Pearson
   • ISBN: 9780134857893

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