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Based on the author's many years of experience in practicing safety assessment in industry and teaching students or professionals in this area, the topic of this book is seldom found on university curricula and many professionals do not have the knowledge required to interpret thermal data in terms of risks. For this reason, Francis Stoessel adopts a unique systematic how-to-do approach: Each chapter begins with a case history illustrating the topic and presenting the lessons learned from the incident. In so doing, he analyzes a goldmine of numerous examples stemming from industrial practice, additionally providing a series of problems or case studies at the end of each chapter. Divided into three distinct sections, part one looks at the general aspects of thermal process safety, while Part 2 deals with mastering exothermal reactions. The final section discusses the avoidance of secondary reactions, including heat accumulation and thermal confinement.Content: Chapter 1 Introduction to Risk Analysis of Fine Chemical Processes (pages 1–29): Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Thermal Process Safety (pages 31–58): Chapter 3 Assessment of Thermal Risks (pages 59–80): Chapter 4 Experimental Techniques (pages 81–100): Chapter 5 General Aspects of Reactor Safety (pages 101–117): Chapter 6 Batch Reactors (pages 119–146): Chapter 7 Semi?Batch Reactors (pages 147–178): Chapter 8 Continuous Reactors (pages 179–201): Chapter 9 Technical Aspects of Reactor Safety (pages 203–240): Chapter 10 Risk Reducing Measures (pages 241–278): Chapter 11 Thermal Stability (pages 279–309): Chapter 12 Autocatalytic Reactions (pages 311–334): Chapter 13 Heat Confinement (pages 335–359): Chapter 14 Symbols (pages 361–365):
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Francis Stoessel Thermal Safety of Chemical Processes Further Reading K. Bhagwati Managing Safety A Guide for Executives 2006 ISBN 978-3-527-31583-3 H. Schütz, P.M. Wiedemann, W. Hennings, J. Mertens, M. Clauberg Comparative Risk Assessment Concepts, Problems and Applications 2006 ISBN 978-3-527-31667-0 R.L. Brauer Safety and Health for Engineers 2005 ISBN 978-0-471-29189-3 C.A. Ericson Hazard Analysis Techniques for System Safety 2005 ISBN 978-0-471-72019-5 F.P. Helmus Process Plant Design Project Management from Inquiry to Acceptance 2008 ISBN 978-3-527-31313-6 Francis Stoessel Thermal Safety of Chemical Processes Risk Assessment and Process Design The Author Prof. Dr.-Ing. F. Stoessel Swiss Institute for the Promotion of Safety & Security Schwarzwaldallee 215 4058 Basel Switzerland All books published by Wiley-VCH are carefully produced. Nevertheless, authors, editors, and publisher do not warrant the information contained in these books, including this book, to be free of errors. Readers are advised to keep in mind that statements, data, illustrations, procedural details or other items may inadvertently be inaccurate. Library of Congress Card No.: applied for British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at . © 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim All rights reserved (including those of translation into other languages). No part of this book may be reproduced in any form – by photoprinting, microfilm, or any other means – nor transmitted or translated into a machine language without written permission from the publishers. Registered names, trademarks, etc. used in this book, even when not specifically marked as such, are not to be considered unprotected by