
HAZOP: Guide to Best Practice
Description
Key Features
- A concise and clear guide to the do's and don'ts in HAZOP
- New edition brings additional experience to help you deliver optimum safety and efficiency of performance.
- Updated material includes a section on HAZOP study of a procedure with a detailed example, new sections on pre-meeting with the client auditing a study, human factors and linking HAZOP study to LOPA. A section on start-up and shutdown has been added to the chapter on specific applications of HAZOP.
Readership
Functional safety professionals; process engineers; chemical engineers; engineering managers; junior engineers; university students.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Aims and Objectives
- 1.2 Essential Features of HAZOP Study
Chapter 2. Process Hazard Studies
- 2.1 HS 1—Concept Stage Hazard Review
- 2.2 HS 2—HAZID at Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) or Project Definition Stage
- 2.3 HS 3—Detailed Design Hazard Study
- 2.4 HS 4—Construction/Design Verification
- 2.5 HS 5—Pre-Commissioning Safety Review
- 2.6 HS 6—Project Close-Out/Post Start-Up Review
- 2.7 HS 0—Consideration of Inherently Safer or Less Polluting Systems
- 2.8 HS 7—Demolition/Abandonment Reviews
- 2.9 Overview of Hazard Studies
- 2.10 Illustrative Checklist for HS 2
Chapter 3. The HAZOP Study Method
- 3.1 Essential Features
- 3.2 The Purpose
- 3.3 Limitations
Chapter 4. The Detailed HAZOP Study Procedure
- 4.1 The Description and Design Intention
- 4.2 Generating a Deviation
- 4.3 Identifying Causes
- 4.4 Evaluating Consequences
- 4.5 Safeguards (Protection)
- 4.6 Risk Assessment
- 4.7 Recommendations/Actions
- 4.8 Recording
- 4.9 Continuing and Completing the Analysis
- 4.10 An Illustration of the HAZOP Study Process
Chapter 5. Organizing a HAZOP Study
- 5.1 Defining the Scope and Objectives of the Study and Establishing the Boundaries
- 5.2 Appointing a Team Leader and Selecting the Team
- 5.3 Preparation
Chapter 6. Carrying Out a Study
- 6.1 Premeeting with Client
- 6.2 Planning the Meetings
- 6.3 The Study Meetings
- 6.4 Coordinating and Reviewing Responses
- 6.5 Completing and Signing Off the Report(s)
- 6.6 Follow-Up of Actions and Management of Change
Chapter 7. Recording and Auditing
- 7.1 Background Information
- 7.2 Section Headings
- 7.3 The Recording Format for the Detailed Examination
- 7.4 The Level of Recording
- 7.5 The Content
- 7.6 Computer Recording
- 7.7 Auditing a HAZOP Study
Chapter 8. Training
- 8.1 Team Members
- 8.2 Scribe
- 8.3 Team Leader
Chapter 9. Company Procedures for HAZOP Study
Chapter 10. Advanced Aspects of HAZOP Study
- 10.1 HAZOP Study of Computer-Controlled Processes
- 10.2 Human Factors
- 10.3 Linking HAZOP Studies to LOPA
Chapter 11. Specific Applications of HAZOP
- 11.1 Modification of Existing Operations
- 11.2 Repeat Designs—HAZOP-by-difference
- 11.3 Periodic Hazard Studies and the HAZOP of an Existing Plant
- 11.4 Operating Procedures
- 11.5 Pilot Plant and Laboratory Operations
- 11.6 Drains, Vents, and Other Interconnections Between Plants
- 11.7 Commissioning and Decommissioning
- 11.8 Start-Up and Shutdown
- 11.9 Construction and Demolition
- 11.10 Contract Operations
Chapter 12. Factors for a Successful HAZOP Study
- 12.1 Throughout the Study
- 12.2 Before the Study
- 12.3 During the Study
- 12.4 After the Study
Appendix 1. The Guideword-First Approach to HAZOP
Appendix 2. The Use of Checklists Within HAZOP Study
Appendix 3. An Illustration of HAZOP Study for a Continuous Operation
- A3.1 Methanol Injection
- A3.2 General Process Data
- A3.3 The Issues
- A3.4 Methodology
Appendix 4. An Illustration of HAZOP Study for a Batch Operation
- A4.1 Introduction
- A4.2 The Company, Site, Plant, and Process
- A4.3 The Process Stages Selected for HAZOP Study
- A4.4 HAZOP Study of Steps 9 and 10, the Reaction Stage and Workout
- A4.5 A Section of the HAZOP Study Report for the Batch Reaction (See Table A4.1)
Appendix 5. An Illustration of HAZOP Study for a Procedure
- A5.1 Background
- A5.2 Detailed Proposed Sequence
- A5.3 The HAZOP Study
- A5.4 Final HAZOP Study Report
- A5.5 Authors Notes on this Procedure
Acronyms and Abbreviations
References and Bibliography
- Bibliography
Product details
- No. of pages: 168
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2015
- Published: April 8, 2015
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128035801
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323394604
About the Authors
Frank Crawley
Affiliations and Expertise
Brian Tyler
Affiliations and Expertise
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