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Record Nr.

UNINA9910876769703321

Autore

Atherton John

Titolo

Incidents that define process safety / / John Atherton, Frederic Gil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2008

ISBN

1-282-77422-0

9786612774225

0-470-92517-5

0-470-92516-7

1-60119-610-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GilFrederic

Disciplina

660/.2804

Soggetti

Chemical plants - Accidents - United States

Chemical industry - United States - Safety measures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Center for Chemical Process Safety."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Incidents that Define Process Safety; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. BLIND OPERATIONS; Major Airplane Crash at Tenerife Airport, Pan Am 1736/KLM 4805, March 27, 1977; MD 83/Shorts 330 Crash at Paris Charles de Gaulle, France, May 25,2000; Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor Core Meltdown, Pennyslvania, March 28, 1979; 3. DESIGN; Methy lsocyante Release, Bhopal, India, Dec. 3, 1984; NASA Challenger Disaster, Florida, USA, January 28, 1986; K-Boats - British Steam Powered Submarines in the First World War; Loss of Boeing 747-1 31 TWA Flight 800, July 17, 1996

Hindenburg Disaster, Lakehurst, NJ, USA, May 6, 19374. EXTERNAL CAUSES; Mexico City - Pemex LPG Terminal, November 19, 1984; Earthquake at Tupras Refinery, Izmit, Turkey, August 17, 1999; 5. INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE; Fire and Explosion at Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay, Ireland, January 8,1979; Sinking of the ""Erika"", December 12, 1999; Flight TS 236 Loss of Fuel Over the Altlantic, August 24, 2001; Fire on Board HMS Glagow, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, September 23, 1976; HF Release at Marathon Oil Refinery, Texas City, USA, October 30, 1987

Oil Refinery Explosion and Fire at Texaco Milford Haven, July 24,



1994FCCU Explosion at Total La Mede, France, November 9, 1992; 6. KNOWLEDGE AND TRAINING; BLEVE at Elf Refinery, Feyzin, January 4, 1966; Ammonium Nitrate - Dangerous Fertiliser; Massive Dust Explosion at Courrieres Mine, France, March 10, 1906; 7. LACK OF HAZID (HAZard IDentification); Sinking of the Titanic, North Atlantic, April 15, 1912; Sinking of the Petrobras P-36 Semi-Submersible Production Vessel, Roncador Field, Brazil, May 15, 2001; Esso Longford Gas Plant Explosion, Australia, September 25, 1998

Explosion at BP Grangemouth Hydrocracker, March 22, 1987Reactive Chemicals; 8. MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE; Chernobyl, USSR - How a Safety Enhancement Experiment Turned into a World Scale Disaster, April 26, 1986; Dutch State Mines Nypro Plant, Flixborough, UK, June 1, 1974; 9. NOT LEARNING FROM NEAR MISSES; The Loss of the Space Shuttle ""Columbia,"" Over Texas, USA, February 1,2003; The Capsize of the Herald of Free Enterprise, Zebrugge, Belgium, March 6, 1987; Air France Concorde Crash, Paris, France, July 25, 2000; 10. OPERATING PRACTICES

The British R101 Airship Disaster, France, October 5, 1930Hydrocracker Effluent Pipe Rupture, Tosco, Avon Refinery, California, USA, January 21, 1997; BP Texas City lsomerisation Unit Explosion, Texas, USA, March 23, 2005; 11. PERMIT TO WORK SYSTEMS; Motiva Enterprises LLC, Delware, USA, July 17, 2001; Phillips Pasadena, Texas, October 23, 1989; Piper Alpha Platform, UK, North Sea, July 6, 1988; Shell Port Edouard Herriot Depot, Lyon, France, June 2, 1987; BP Grangemouth Flare Line Fire, Scotland, UK, March 13 1987; 12. EMERGENCY RESPONSE

ICMESA Seveso Italy Toxic Cloud Release, July 10, 1976

Sommario/riassunto

Incidents That Define Process Safety describes approximately fifty incidents that have had a significant impact on the chemical and refining industries' approaches to modern process safety. Events are described in detail so readers get a fundamental understanding of the root causes, the consequences, the lessons learned, and actions that can prevent a recurrence. There are exhaustive investigative reports about these events, allowing you to apply the resulting safety principles to their current operations.