What went wrong? : case histories of process plant disasters
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What went wrong? : case histories of process plant disasters
Gulf Pub. Co., c1994
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume features sections and chapters on heat exchangers, furnaces, inherently-safer design and runaway reactions. The book includes process plant accidents occurring since publication of the 1988 edition, for example, the Phillips 66 Company Houston Chemical Complex explosion and fire, and the Piper Alpha disaster. The book is also concerned with the immediate technical causes of these diasaters and the changes in design and procedures needed to prevent them from happening again. Trevor Kletz is the author of "Lessons from Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory" and "Accidents Recur".
Table of Contents
- Preparation for maintenance
- modifications
- accidents caused by human error
- labeling
- storage tanks
- stacks
- leaks
- liquefied flammable gases
- pipe and vessel failures
- other equipment
- entry to vessels
- hazards of common materials
- tank trucks and cars
- testing of trips and other protective systems
- static electricity
- materials of construction
- operating methods
- reverse flow and other unforeseen deviations
- I didn't know that... problems with computer control
- inherently-safer design
- reactions - planned and unplanned.
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