Thermal Safety of Chemical Processes

Stoessel978-0-471-29189-3

Based on the author’s many years of experience in practicing safety assessment in industry and teaching students or professionals in this area, the topic of this book is seldom found on university curricula and many professionals do not have the knowledge required to interpret thermal data in terms of risks. For this reason, Francis Stoessel adopts a unique systematic how-to-do approach: Each chapter begins with a case history illustrating the topic and presenting the lessons learned from the incident. In so doing, he analyzes a goldmine of numerous examples stemming from industrial practice, additionally providing a series of problems or case studies at the end of each chapter. Divided into three distinct sections, part one looks at the general aspects of thermal process safety, while Part 2 deals with mastering exothermal reactions. The final section discusses the avoidance of secondary reactions, including heat accumulation and thermal confinement.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Thermal Safety of Chemical Processes……Page 2
Further Reading……Page 3
Contents……Page 8
Part I General Aspects of Thermal Process Safety……Page 22
1 Introduction to Risk Analysis of Fine Chemical Processes……Page 24
2 Fundamentals of Thermal Process Safety……Page 52
3 Assessment of Thermal Risks……Page 80
4 Experimental Techniques……Page 102
Part II Mastering Exothermal Reactions……Page 122
5 General Aspects of Reactor Safety……Page 124
6 Batch Reactors……Page 140
7 Semi-batch Reactors……Page 168
8 Continuous Reactors……Page 200
9 Technical Aspects of Reactor Safety……Page 224
10 Risk Reducing Measures……Page 262
Part III Avoiding Secondary Reactions……Page 300
11 Thermal Stability……Page 302
12 Autocatalytic Reactions……Page 332
13 Heat Confinement……Page 356
14 Symbols……Page 382
Index……Page 388