Evaluation of the Effects and Consequences of Major Accidents in Industrial Plants

2. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-444-63883-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 570 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 1171 g

Evaluation of the Effects and Consequences of Major Accidents in Industrial Plants, Second Edition, covers the essential aspects of a diverse range of major accidents including fires, explosions and toxic clouds, and provides the key models necessary to calculate their effects and consequences with applications to real incidents. New topics in this up-to-date edition include dust explosions, evaluation of frequencies and probabilities, domino effect, transportation of hazardous materials, and analysis of significant accidents.The new edition of Evaluation of the Effects and Consequences of Major Accidents in Industrial Plants is a valuable resource to engineers from the chemical/petrochemical industry and those working with the transportation of hazardous materials (by road, rail, or pipelines), in addition to engineering companies and academics alike.

Zielgruppe

<p>Engineers from chemical/petrochemical industry, or working with the transportation of hazardous materials (by road, rail or pipelines); Safety engineers from industry,;Engineering companies; Academic people from departments of chemical engineering, energy and environmental technology; students from these fields</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Casal, Joaquim

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Chemische Verfahrenstechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Source term 3. Fire accidents 4. Vapour cloud explosions 5. BLEVEs and vessel explosions 6. Dust explosions 7. Atmospheric dispersion of toxic or flammable clouds 8. Vulnerability 9. Determination of accident frequencies 10. Domino effect 11. Quantitative risk analysis 12. Transportation of hazardous materials

Über Autor(innen)

Casal, Joaquim
Joaquim Casal is an Emeritus Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, with 35 years of experience in quantitative risk analysis. He has conducted accident analyses for legal cases, performed risk assessments for chemical companies, and researched major accidents. A visiting professor internationally, he has authored around 300 papers and three books, focusing on safety and risk analysis in process plants and hazardous material transportation. He founded the Centre for Studies on Technological Risk in 1992 and has held leadership roles at UPC and the Autonomous Government of Catalonia. He continues to teach risk analysis courses globally.