Books in Chemical health and safety

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Nanotechnology Safety

• 2nd Edition
• December 1, 2024
• Ramazan Asmatulu + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-15904-6

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• eBook 978-0-443-15905-3

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Nanotechnology Safety, Second Edition outlines the safety, regulatory, and environmental issues related to nanotechnology by industry, offering guidelines in assessing the risks and discussing the legal and social-economical issues involved with current safety regulations. This new edition is fully revised and updated, providing in-depth information on new and current nanomaterials, their industrial applications, toxicity levels, and protections systems in various fields. This valuable resource remains an indispensable resource for academia and industries, covering detailed information on recent processes and nanosystems. It provides engineers, scientists, teachers, students, technicians, and policymakers with a general guide and information for future studies and manufacturing of nanomaterials.The usage of nanosystems, nanomaterials, nano-devices, etc. permeates all aspects of society. Cancer targeting and curing nanosystems are used in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries, as are lightweight energy absorbing or blast-proof nanohybrid materials in the aerospace, automotive, marine industries, and high efficiency energy harvesting nanomaterials, etc.

Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes

• 1st Edition
• February 29, 2024
• Maulin P. Shah + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-19207-4

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• eBook 978-0-443-19208-1

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Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes: Emerging Technologies for Removal of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products: State of the Art, Challenges and Future Perspectives provides a holistic overview on the recent advances and challenges associated with pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCP) removal from water and wastewater. The book covers advanced remediation technologies such as microbial fuel cells (MFCs), microalgae, and hybrid technologies, and focuses on the environmental sustainability of each technology, using lifecycle assessment.This book will help students and researchers in carrying out research on further advancements in the field, also helping them apply this to the real-world conditions.

Safety in the Chemical Laboratory and Industry

• 1st Edition
• July 11, 2023
• Muhammad Raza Shah
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-95181-4

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Safety in the Chemical Laboratory and Industry: A Practical Guide provides an authoritative reference on chemical safety procedures and the handling and disposal of chemicals at both the laboratory and industrial level. The book serves as a practical guide for laboratory workers and offers prudent guidelines for the development of regulatory policy for academic and non-academic organizations. The book stresses that all accidental injuries can be minimized if systems and attitudes are in place to prevent them and that to fully materialize a safety culture, even with improved technology, everyone should be mindful of maintaining a safe environment. This handbook will assist faculty, researchers, staff and students to provide a safe and healthy laboratory environment to teach, learn and conduct research.

Fundamentals of Risk Management for Process Industry Engineers

• 1st Edition
• April 19, 2023
• Maureen Hassall + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-820320-0

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• eBook 978-0-12-820487-0

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Fundamentals of Risk Management for Process Industry Engineers outlines foundational principles of human-centered, sociotechnical risk management, and how they can be applied to deliver real improvements in risk identification, understanding, analysis, control, communication, and governance. To maximize sustainable competitiveness requires the identification and optimization of the range of risks that can impact a business. Hence, understanding the foundational principles of sociotechnical risk management is required to design and execute effective risk identification, optimization, and management strategies.

Environmental Applications of Microbial Nanotechnology

• 1st Edition
• October 26, 2022
• Pardeep Singh + 4 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-91744-5

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• eBook 978-0-323-97255-0

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Environmental Applications of Microbial Nanotechnology: Emerging Trends in Environmental Remediation discusses emerging trends and recent advancements in environmental remediation. The book provides environmental applications of microbial nanotechnology that helps readers understand novel microbial systems and take advantage of recent advances in microbial nanotechnologies. It highlights established research and technology on microbial nanotechnology's environmental applications, moves to rapidly emerging aspects and then discusses future research directions. The book provides researchers in academia and industry with a high-tech start-up that will revolutionize the modern environmental applications of microbial nanotechnology research.

Handbook for Laboratory Safety

• 1st Edition
• April 29, 2022
• Benjamin R. Sveinbjornsson + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-99320-3

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• eBook 978-0-323-99321-0

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Handbook for Laboratory Safety provides insights into what you should expect when you enter a laboratory, along with how to behave in these specialized work environments. It is a practical book that can be used as a general introduction to laboratory safety, but also works as a resource for employees or students who do laboratory work. Students could carry this book in their backpack, whereas university/institute/company laboratories could place the book in every laboratory as a reference. This book is also ideally suited for essential courses for students, (new) employees or laboratory technicians who are starting their work in a laboratory environment.

Overpressure Protection in the Process Industry

• 1st Edition
• January 17, 2022
• Marc Hellemans
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-90956-3

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Overpressure Protection in the Process Industry: A Critical View provides a practical and pragmatic guidance for anyone dealing with overpressure protection in the process industry. The book explains the background of complicated international codes and regulations, offering a pragmatic and practical approach on how these codes can be interpreted for specific cases. The book also gives a critical view on these codes and regulations and where they do or don't make sense, along with the challenges in some instances, including technical and practical argumentations. Finally, the book covers specific problem areas and sizing methods when using safety relief devices as overpressure protection, such as how to handle installation, backpressures, blowdowns, the 3% rule, types of chatter and other destructive forces in relief devices.

Dynamic Risk Assessment and Management of Domino Effects and Cascading Events in the Process Industry

• 1st Edition
• June 8, 2021
• Valerio Cozzani + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-08-102838-4

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Dynamic Risk Assessment and Management of Domino Effects and Cascading Events in the Process Industry provides insights into emerging and state-of-the-art methods for the dynamic assessment of risk and safety barrier performance in the framework of domino effect risk management. The book presents methods and tools to manage the risk of cascading events involving the chemical and process industry. It is an ideal reference for both safety and security managers, industrial risk stakeholders, scientists and practitioners. In addition, laymen may find the state-of-the-art methods concerning domino effects (large-scale accidents) and how to prevent their propagation an interesting topic of study.

Trevor Kletz Compendium

• 1st Edition
• January 21, 2021
• Andy Brazier + 4 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-819447-8

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Trevor Kletz has had a huge impact on the way people viewed accidents and safety, particularly in the process industries. His ideas were developed from nearly 40 years working in the chemical industry. When he retired from the field, he shared his experience and ideas widely in more than 15 books. Trevor Kletz Compendium: His Process Safety Wisdom Updated for a New Generation introduces Kletz’s stories and ideas and brings them up to date in this valuable resource that equips readers to manage process safety in every workplace. Topics covered in this book include inherent safety, safety studies, human factors and design. Learn the lessons from past accidents to make sure they don’t happen again.

Process Safety Management and Human Factors

• 1st Edition
• November 13, 2020
• Waddah S. Ghanem Al Hashmi
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-818109-6

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Process Safety Management and Human Factors: A Practitioner's Experiential Approach addresses human factors in process safety management (PSM) from a reflective learning approach. The book is written by engineers and technical specialists who spent the last 15-20 years of their professional career looking at behavioral-based safety, human factor research, and safety culture development in organizations. It is a fundamental resource for operational, technical and safety managers in high-risk industries who need to focus on personal and occupational safety management to prevent safety accidents. Real-life examples illustrate how a good, effective understanding of human factors supports PSM and positive impacts on accident occurrence.