Process safety calculations

Process Safety Calculations, Second Edition remains to be an essential guide for students and practitioners in process safety engineering who are working on calculating and predicting risks and consequences. The book focuses on calculation procedures based on basic chemistry, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, conservation equations, kinetics and practical models. It provides helpful calculations to demonstrate compliance with regulations and standards, such as Seveso directive(s)/COMAH, CLP regulation, ATEX directives, PED directives, REACH regulation, OSHA/NIOSH and UK ALARP, along with risk and consequence assessment, stoichiometry, thermodynamics, stress analysis and fluid-dynamics. This fully revised, updated and expanded second edition follows the same organization as the first, including the original three main parts, Fundamentals, Consequence Assessment and Quantitative Risk Assessment. However, the latter part is significantly expanded, including an appendix consisting of five fundamental thematic areas belonging to the risk assessment framework, including in-depth calculations methodologies for some fundamental monothematic macro-areas of process safety.

Includes index.

Intro -- Process Safety Calculations -- Copyright -- Contents -- Author Biography -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Part 1: Fundamentals -- Chapter 1: Chemistry of Process Safety -- 1.1. Stoichiometry and Mass Balances -- 1.1.1. Mass Balances -- 1.1.2. Chemical Reactions -- 1.1.3. Jet Flows From Pressurised Systems -- 1.1.4. Flash Flow -- 1.1.5. Absorption and Adsorption -- 1.2. States of Substances in Process Safety -- 1.2.1. Gases and Vapours -- 1.2.2. Liquids -- 1.2.3. Dusts -- 1.2.4. Hybrid Mixtures -- 1.2.5. Explosive Mists -- 1.2.6. Supercritical Fluids -- 1.3. Mass and Concentration Units in Process Safety -- 1.3.1. Partial Volumes (Gas Phase) -- 1.3.2. Mass Fraction (Gas and Liquid Phase) -- 1.3.3. Mass-to-Volume Concentration (Gas and Liquid Phase) -- 1.3.4. Parts per Million (Gas and Liquid Phase) -- 1.3.5. Parts per Million (Gas Phase) -- 1.3.6. Molar Concentration (Aqueous Solutions) -- 1.3.7. Concentration Units Conversion Summary -- 1.4. Solutions and Chemical Equilibrium -- 1.4.1. Gaseous Solutions -- 1.4.2. Kinetics and Equilibrium in Gas Reactive Mixtures -- 1.4.3. Liquid Solutions -- Liquid-liquid solutions -- Vapour-liquid equilibrium in liquid solutions -- 1.…