
Evaluation of the Effects and Consequences of Major Accidents in Industrial Plants
Description
Key Features
- Evaluates the expected/probable occurrence frequency of major accidents
- Describes the main features of fires, explosions and toxic releases
- Includes mathematical modeling of major accidents, evaluation of their effects, and consequences on people and equipment
- Explains how to perform a Quantitative Risk Analysis
Readership
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 the departments of chemical engineering, energy and environmental technology; students from these fields
Table of Contents
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
Product details
- No. of pages: 570
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2017
- Published: September 21, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780444638922
- Paperback ISBN: 9780444638830
About the Author
Joaquim Casal
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