Thermal Safety of Chemical Processes: Risk Assessment and Process Design

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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):