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Process plants : a handbook for inherently safer design / Trevor Kletz.

By: Kletz, Trevor A.
Contributor(s): Kletz, Trevor A. Cheaper, safer plants.
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Taylor & Francis, c1998Description: xiv, 209 p. : ill., ; 25 cm.ISBN: 1560326190 (hbk.).Subject(s): Chemical plants -- Safety measuresDDC classification: 660.2804
Contents:
Preface. - 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 - Specification and Flexibility. - 9. Other Ways of Making Plants Friendlier. - 10. The Road to Friendlier Plants. - 11. Friendlier Plants and the Nuclear Industry. - 12. Do We Go Too Far in Removing Risks? - 13. The History and Future of Inherently Safer and User-Friendly Design. - Appendix : An Atlas of Safety Thinking. - Index.
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Floor 4, Shelf 28 , Side 1, TierNo 1, BayNo 5

 660.2804 KLE (Browse shelf) 1 Available SOExx,07015,03,GR 5000066446

Based on an earlier publication, Cheaper, safer plants, or Wealth and safety at work ... published by the U.K. Institution of Chemical Engineers in 1984 ... which has been rewritten and extended.

Includes index.

Preface. - 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 - Specification and Flexibility. - 9. Other Ways of Making Plants Friendlier. - 10. The Road to Friendlier Plants. - 11. Friendlier Plants and the Nuclear Industry. - 12. Do We Go Too Far in Removing Risks? - 13. The History and Future of Inherently Safer and User-Friendly Design. - Appendix : An Atlas of Safety Thinking. - Index.