Books in the Industrial Safety Series series

The assessment and management of risk to society from the operation of chemical process plants and other industrial activities in which dangerous substances are produced, used, handled or stored is a topic of great importance. This book links the concepts of risk analyses in order to evaluate this specific risk.

The value of the critical temperature (T), below which the thermal explosion of a chemical cannot occur, is indispensable to prevent such a chemical from exploding. This book introduces simple procedures to calculate the T. It lists the T(c) values of chemicals in tables.

Covers the following topics: general introduction, source term, fire accidents, vapour cloud explosions, BLEVEs and vessel explosions, atmospheric dispersion of toxic or flammable clouds, vulnerability, and quantitative risk analysis. This book is a useful for engineering professionals and for teaching at graduate and post-graduate levels.