Book description
A new edition of the best-selling guide to chemical process safety - with important new content on reactivity, safe design, and much more
Extensive updates throughout, including an all-new chapter on chemical reactivity, responding to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's new undergraduate chemical engineering education recommendations
Adds new coverage of safe design, including hot work permits, vessel entry, and more
An important new resource for today's growing number of chemical engineering students and practitioners
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- On the Cover
- Nomenclature
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Toxicology
- Chapter 3. Industrial Hygiene
- Chapter 4. Source Models
- Chapter 5. Toxic Release and Dispersion Models
- Chapter 6. Fires and Explosions
- Chapter 7. Concepts to Prevent Fires and Explosions
- Chapter 8. Chemical Reactivity
- Chapter 9. Introduction to Reliefs
- Chapter 10. Relief Sizing
- Chapter 11. Hazards Identification
- Chapter 12. Risk Assessment
- Chapter 13. Safety Procedures and Designs
- Chapter 14. Case Histories
- Appendix A. Unit Conversion Constants
- Appendix B. Flammability Data for Selected Hydrocarbons
- Appendix C. Detailed Equations for Flammability Diagrams
- Appendix D. Formal Safety Review Report for Example 10-4
- Appendix E. Saturation Vapor Pressure Data
- Appendix F. Special Types of Reactive Chemicals
- Appendix G. Hazardous Chemicals Data for a Variety of Chemical Substances
- Index
- Footnotes
Product information
- Title: Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications, Third Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2011
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780132762489
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