
Process Plants
A Handbook for Inherently Safer Design
CRC Press
Published on 1. August 1998
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-56032-619-9 (ISBN)
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Description
This easy-to-read source provides a wealth of stimulating information on the design of inherently safer and user-friendly plants. It demonstrates how plants can withstand human error and equipment failure without serious effects on safety, output, or efficiency. Examples of user-friendly design and increased coverage on design procedures are implemented.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bosa Roca
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56032-619-9 (9781560326199)
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05/2010
2nd Edition
CRC Press
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Plant Design For Safety
A User-Friendly Approach
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11/1990
1st Edition
Taylor & Francis
€102.93
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Persons
Dalhousie University, Canada
Content
Preface Preface to the First Edition 1. Introduction-What are Inherently Safer and User-Friendly Plants? 2.Inherently Safer Design-The Concept and its Scope and Benefits 3.Intensification 4.Substitution 5.Attenuation 6.Limitation of Effects 7.Simplification 8.Simplification -Specifications and Flexibility 9.Other Ways of Making Plants Friendlier 10.The Road to Friendlier Plants 11.Friendlier Plants and teh Nuclear Industry 12.Do We Go Too Far in Removing Risk 13.The History-and Future- of Inherently Safer and Friendlier Design Appendix-An Atlas of Safety Thinking Index