05222nam 22006134a 450 991045735020332120200520144314.01-280-96435-997866109643520-08-046983-3(CKB)1000000000349972(EBL)286711(OCoLC)476038600(SSID)ssj0000197122(PQKBManifestationID)11172470(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197122(PQKBWorkID)10154914(PQKB)11503410(MiAaPQ)EBC286711(Au-PeEL)EBL286711(CaPaEBR)ebr10166986(CaONFJC)MIL96435(EXLCZ)99100000000034997220030321d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrManaging risk and reliability of process plants[electronic resource] /Mark TweeddaleBoston Gulf Professional Pub.c20031 online resource (527 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7506-7734-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.front cover; copyright; table of contents; front matter; Acknowledgments; Foreword; body; 1. Introduction; 1.1 THE SITUATION; 1.1.1 Reliability; 1.1.2 Risk; 1.2 HANDLING THE SITUATION; 1.3 MANAGEMENT OF THE HAZARDS, OR THE POTENTIAL FOR MISHAP; 1.4 WHY BOTHER WITH RISK MANAGEMENT, ANYWAY?; 1.4.1 Legal Requirements; 1.4.2 Commercial Requirements; 1.4.3 Moral or Ethical Requirements; 1.4.4 Three Variables: Cost, Risk, and Professional Skill; 1.5 THE BENEFITS OF RISK MANAGEMENT; 1.6 FIELDS OF RISK MANAGEMENT; 1.7 SCOPE OF PROCESS RISK AND RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT; 1.8 THE RISK SPECTRUM1.9 STEPS IN RISK MANAGEMENT OF A PROCESS PLANT1.10 RISK MANAGEMENT WITHOUT NUMBERS; 1.11 SOME ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE APPROACH; 1.12 DEFINE THE CONTEXT; 2. Hazard Identification; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.1.1 Situation; 2.1.2 Sources of Major Hazard; 2.2 TYPES OF IMPACT; 2.3 TYPICAL TYPES OF INCIDENTS LEADING TO THE IMPACT; 2.4 TYPES OF PROCESS PLANT INCIDENTS; 2.4.1 Introduction; 2.4.2 Major Fires; 2.4.3 BLEVEs or Fireballs; 2.4.4 Flash Fires; 2.4.5 Vapor Cloud Explosion; 2.4.6 Dust Explosions; 2.4.7 Other Explosions; 2.4.8 Toxic Gas Escapes; 2.4.9 Toxic Fumes from Fires2.4.10 Chronic Toxic Exposure2.4.11 Damage to the Environment due to Toxic Liquid or Gas Release; 2.4.12 "Domino" Incidents; 2.4.13 Major Equipment Breakdown; 2.4.14 General Comment; 2.5 APPROACHES TO SYSTEMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF HAZARDS AND RISKS; 2.5.1 Introduction; 2.5.2 Identification of Major Hazard Inventories and Activities; 2.5.3 Block Diagram Stage; 2.5.4 Identification of Hazards from a Process Flowsheet; 2.5.5 Detailed Identification of Hazards on an Existing Process Plant; 3. Ranking and Short- Listing of Risks; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 THE PARETO PRINCIPLE3.3 TWO CLASSES OF RISKS FOR ATTENTION3.4 RANKING THE HAZARDS AND THE ASSOCIATED RISK SCENARIOS; 3.5 EXAMPLES OF SCORING SYSTEMS FOR USE IN RAPID RANKING; 3.5.1 Introduction; 3.5.2 Consequence Scoring Systems; 3.5.3 Frequency Scoring Systems; 3.6 ESTIMATION OF THE MAGNITUDE OF THE CONSEQUENCES, OR THE FREQUENCY, OF OPERATIONAL LOSSES; 3.6.1 Introduction; 3.6.2 Methods of Estimating for Short-Listing Purposes; 3.6.3 Incidents Arising from Hazardous Materials; 3.6.4 Environmental Damage; 3.6.5 Interruption to Supply of Goods or Services; 3.7 CASE STUDIES; 3.7.1 Introduction3.7.2 Large Petrochemical and Chemical Factory3.7.3 Oil-Gas Separation Facility; 3.7.4 Industrial Estate, Including Chemical Processing Factories; 3.7.5 Steelworks; 3.7.6 Gas/Liquid Separation Plant; 3.8 RISK MANAGEMENT WITHOUT NUMBERS; 3.8.1 Introduction; 3.8.2 Risk Matrix; 3.9 IDENTIFYING THE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED IN THE RISK ASSESSMENT; 4. Risk and Reliability Criteria; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 THE PROBLEM WITH "ACCEPTABLE RISK"; 4.3 SOME EVERYDAY RISKS; 4.3.1 Introduction; 4.4 RISKS TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FROM NEW PLANT; 4.4.1 Individual Risk; 4.4.2 Societal Risk; 4.5 RISKS TO EMPLOYEES4.5.1 "Fatal Accident Rate"There is much specialist material written about different elements of managing risks of hazardous industries, such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and risk management. Managing Risk and Reliability of Process Plants provides a systematic and integrated coverage of all these elements in sufficient detail for the reader to be able to pursue more detailed study of particular elements or topics from a good appreciation of the whole field. The reader would use this book to keep up to date with new developments and, if they are new to the job, to learn more about the subject. The teChemical plantsManagementElectronic books.Chemical plantsManagement.660/.2804Tweeddale Mark627464MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457350203321Managing risk and reliability of process plants1212747UNINA