Process plants : a handbook for inherently safer design
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| Autore: |
Kletz Trevor A.
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| Titolo: |
Process plants : a handbook for inherently safer design
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| Pubblicazione: | Boca Raton : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2010 |
| Edizione: | 2nd ed. / |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (386 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 660/.2804 |
| Soggetto topico: | Chemical plants - Safety measures |
| Chemical plants - Design and construction | |
| Altri autori: |
AmyottePaul
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front cover; Contents; Preface to theFirst Edition; Preface to theSecond Edition; Authors; Chapter 1. Introduction: What Are Inherently Safer and User-Friendly Plants?; Chapter 2. Inherently Safer Design: The Concept and Its Scope and Benefits; Chapter 3. Intensification; Chapter 4. Substitution; Chapter 5. Attenuation; Chapter 6. Limitation of Effects; Chapter 7. Simplification; Chapter 8. Simplification: Specifications and Flexibility; Chapter 9. Other Ways of Making Plants Friendlier; Chapter 10. The Road to Friendlier Plants |
| Chapter 11. Inherently Safer Design and Process-Safety ManagementChapter 12. Friendlier Plants and the Nuclear Industry; Chapter 13. The Role of Inherently Safer Design in Dust Explosion Prevention and Mitigation; Chapter 14. Inherent-Safety Case Studies; Chapter 15. Do We Go Too Far in Removing Risk?; Chapter 16. The History and Future of Inherently Safer and User-Friendly Design; Appendix: An Atlas of Safety Thinking; Index; Back cover | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Covers the design of inherently safer and user-friendly plants. This book demonstrates how chemical plants can withstand human error and equipment failures without serious effects on safety, output, or efficiency. It features sections that address the hierarchy of controls and highlight human factors in determining risk. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Process plants |
| ISBN: | 0-429-09242-3 |
| 1-62870-486-1 | |
| 1-4398-0456-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910799973003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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