Preventable dust explosions continue to occur in industry in spite of significant research and practice efforts worldwide over many years. There is a need for effective understanding of the unique hazards posed by combustible dust. This book describes a number of dust explosion myths – which together cover the main source of dust explosion hazards – the reasons they exist and the corresponding scientific and engineering facts that mitigate these circumstances. An Introduction to Dust Explosions describes the main erroneous beliefs about the origin and propagation of dust explosions. It offers fact-based explanations for their occurrence and the impact of such events and provides a critical guide to managing and mitigating dust explosion risks.
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<li>Designed to prevent accidents, injury, loss of life and capital damage </li>
<li>An easy-to-read, scientifically rigorous treatment of the facts and fictions of dust explosions for those who need to – or ought to – understand dust explosions, their occurrence and consequences</li>
<li>Enables the management and mitigation of these critical industrial hazards</li>
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An Introduction to Dust Explosions: Understanding the Myths and Realities of Dust Explosions for a Safer Workplace

Science & Math

Amyotte, Paul

Chemistry

Butterworth-Heinemann

What Went Wrong? 6th Edition provides a complete analysis of the design, operational, and management causes of process plant accidents and disasters. Co-author Paul Amyotte has built on Trevor Kletz’s legacy by incorporating questions and personal exercises at the end of each major book section. Case histories illustrate what went wrong and why it went wrong, and then guide readers in how to avoid similar tragedies and learn without having to experience the loss incurred by others. Updated throughout and expanded, this sixth edition is the ultimate resource of experienced-based analysis and guidance for safety and loss prevention professionals.

What Went Wrong?: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided

Engineering & Transportation

Kletz, Trevor

Engineering

How far will an ounce of prevention really go? While the answer to that question may never be truly known, Process Plants: A Handbook for Inherently Safer Design, Second Edition takes us several steps closer. The book demonstrates not just the importance of prevention, but the importance of designing with prevention in mind. It emphasizes the role of inherent safety in process safety management systems and in ensuring an appropriate process safety culture. Keeping the easy to understand style that made the first edition so popular, this book clearly delineates practical, everyday issues and complex technical ones. The second edition provides: <ul>
<li>Coverage of new inherent safety metrics and how to measure the degree or level of inherent safety</li> <li>New examples of application of the various principles of inherently safer design and 20 new figures</li> <li>New emphasis on the role of inherently safer design in process safety management systems and in ensuring an appropriate process safety culture</li> <li>Discussion of dust explosion risk reduction by means of inherently safer approaches </li> <li>New chapter on case study development, providing a comprehensive approach to the prevention and mitigation of process incidents by timely incorporation of inherently safer design</li> </ul>
This updated version of a classic text examines how to incorporate inherently safer design into process industry activities, revising and updating information based on recent research and developments. A how-to resource at its core, the book includes numerous examples that illustrate the principles of inherently safer design and how to apply them in practice. It explains how to measure the inherent safeness of a process, referencing metric tools that have been developed during the past decade and the tried and true methods that have become industry stand bys.

Process Plants: A Handbook for Inherently Safer Design, Second Edition

Kletz, Trevor A.

CRC-Press

Hydrogen Safety (Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering)

Hydrogen Safety highlights physiological, physical, and chemical hazards associated with hydrogen production, storage, distribution, and use systems. It also examines potential accident scenarios that could occur with hydrogen use under certain conditions.  The number of potential applications for hydrogen continues to grow―from cooling power station generators to widespread commercial use in hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles and other fuel-cell applications. However, this volatile substance poses unique challenges, including easy leakage, low ignition energy, a wide range of combustible fuel-air mixtures, buoyancy, and its ability to embrittle metals that are required to ensure safe operation.  Focused on providing a balanced view of hydrogen safety―one that integrates principles from physical sciences, engineering, management, and social sciences―this book is organized to address questions associated with the hazards of hydrogen and the ensuing risk associated with its industrial and public use.    What are the properties of hydrogen that can render it a hazardous substance?  How have these hazards historically resulted in undesired incidents?  How might these hazards arise in the storage of hydrogen and with its use in vehicular transportation?   The authors address issues of inherently safer design, safety management systems, and safety culture. They highlight hydrogen storage facilities ―which pose greater hazards because of the increased quantities stored and handled―and the dangers of using hydrogen as a fuel for transport. Presented experiments are included to verify computer simulations with the aid of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of both gaseous and liquefied hydrogen. The book also provides an overview of the European Commission (EC) Network of Excellence for Hydrogen Safety (HySafe) and presents various case studies associated with hydrogen and constructional materials. It concludes with a brief look at future research requirements and current legal requirements for hydrogen safety.

Rigas, Fotis

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.

Process Plants: A Handbook for Inherently Safer Design