Evaluation of the effects and consequences of major accidents in industrial plants /

Evaluation of the Effects and Consequences of Major Accidents in Industrial Plants, Second Edition, covers the essential aspects of a diverse range of major accidents including fires, explosions and toxic clouds, and provides the key models necessary to calculate their effects and consequences with...

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Main Author: Casal, Joaquim (Author)
Corporate Author: Knovel (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, 2018.
Edition:Second edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Evaluation of the Effects and Consequences of Major Accidents in Industrial Plants, Second Edition, covers the essential aspects of a diverse range of major accidents including fires, explosions and toxic clouds, and provides the key models necessary to calculate their effects and consequences with applications to real incidents. New topics in this up-to-date edition include dust explosions, evaluation of frequencies and probabilities, domino effect, transportation of hazardous materials, and analysis of significant accidents. The new edition of Evaluation of the Effects and Consequences of Major Accidents in Industrial Plants is a valuable resource to engineers from the chemical/petrochemical industry and those working with the transportation of hazardous materials (by road, rail, or pipelines), in addition to engineering companies and academics alike.
Physical Description:1 online resource (554 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN:044463892X
9780444638922
9780444638830
0444638830