Lees' Process Safety Essentials

M. Sam Mannan, PhD, PE, CSP, is a chemical engineering professor and director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University. He is an internationally recognized expert on process safety and risk assessment. His research interests include hazard assessment and risk analysis, flammable and toxic gas cloud dispersion modeling, inherently safer design, reactive chemicals and run¬away reactions, aerosols, and abnormal situation management.

Praise for Lees' Loss Prevention "...this is still the most comprehensive treatise on process safety and loss prevention available... it should be in the process safety department library of any company involved with manufacturing handling, and processing hazardous chemicals. Also, process safety/loss prevention specialists and consultants will find it an invaluable source book on practically every subject in this field." --CCPS JOURNAL

• Introduction; Hazard, Incident and Loss; Legislation and Law; Major Hazard Control; Reliability Engineering; Hazard Identification; Hazard Assessment; Plant Location and Layout; Process Design; Pressure System Design; Control System Design; Human Factors and Human Error; Emission and Dispersion; Fire; Explosion; Toxic Release; Plant Commissioning and Inspection; Plant Operation; Equipment Maintenance and Modification; Storage; Transport; Emergency Planning; Personal Safety; Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems; Reactive Chemicals; Safety Instrumented Systems; Chemical Security; Metrics and Performance Measurement; Engineering for Sustainable Development; Liquefied Natural Gas; Appx; Case Histories, links and how to use them; ACMH Model Licence Conditions; Standards and Codes; Units and Unit Conversions; Process Safety Management (PSM) Regulation in the United States; Risk Management Program Regulation in the United States; Acronyms; Index; Computer Codes Index