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Process Safety Calculations

Process Safety Calculations is an essential guide for process safety engineers involved in calculating and predicting risks and consequences. The book focuses on calculati… Read more

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Description

Process Safety Calculations is an essential guide for process safety engineers involved in calculating and predicting risks and consequences. The book focuses on calculation procedures based on basic chemistry, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, conservation equations, kinetics and practical models. This book provides helpful calculations to demonstrate compliance with regulations and standards. Standards such as Seveso directive(s)/COMAH, CLP regulation, ATEX directives, PED directives, REACH regulation, OSHA/NIOSH and UK ALARP are covered, along with risk and consequence assessment, stoichiometry, thermodynamics, stress analysis and fluid-dynamics.

Key features

  • Includes realistic engineering models with validation from CFD modeling and/or industry testing
  • Provides an introduction into basic principles that govern process relationships in modern industry
  • Helps the reader find and apply the right principles to the specific problem being solved, mitigated or validated

Readership

Process safety engineers, Process engineers, Chemical Engineers, Environmental engineers, Industrial engineers, Students, Governmental agency (OSHA, HSE, CSB, etc.) employees. Of interest to the following sectors: Oil and gas, Petrochemical industry, Power generation, Basic/fine chemistry, Pharmaceutical industry

Table of contents

PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS

1. Chemistry of Process Safety

2. Thermodynamics and Thermochemistry of Process Safety

3. Reaction Engineering for Process Safety

4. Fluid-Dynamics for Process Safety

5. Loads and Stress Analysis for Process Safety

6. Statistics and Reliability for Process Safety

PART 2: CONSEQUENCE ASSESSMENT

7. Source Models

8. Dispersion Models

9. Fire

10. Explosions

11. Dust Explosions

PART 3: QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT

12. Quantitative Risk Assessment

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About the editor

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Renato Benintendi

Renato Benintendi Msc CEng FIChemE is Senior Researcher at Chemical Physical Department ULB University, Brussels and Process Safety and Loss Prevention Principal Consultant at Wood (Formerly Foster Wheeler), Reading Office. He authored more than 40 publications on international journals, is tutoring and mentoring dissertations in several universities in the UK, France, and Italy. He has 35 years’ experience in process engineering, process safety engineering, environmental engineering, asset integrity management, is lecturing and delivering conference papers in USA, Asia, Europe, and is the author of research programs in process safety and environmental engineering. His specialties encompass process safety, safety modelling, HSE international regulation expertise, environmental engineering, process engineering, and unit operation engineering.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, Chemical Physical Department ULB University, Brussels; Process Safety and Loss Prevention Principal Consultant, Wood (Formerly Foster Wheeler), Reading Office, UK

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