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Evaluation of the Effects and Consequences of Major Accidents in Industrial Plants

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Author(s): Joaquim Casal (Eds.)
Series: Industrial Safety Series 8
Publisher: Elsevier, Academic Press
Year: 2008

Language: English
Pages: 1-363

Content:
Preface
Pages VII-VIII
Joaquim Casal

Chapter 1 Introduction
Pages 1-17

Chapter 2 Source term
Pages 19-60

Chapter 3 Fire accidents
Pages 61-117

Chapter 4 Vapour cloud explosions
Pages 119-145

Chapter 5 BLEVEs and vessel explosions
Pages 147-193

Chapter 6 Atmospheric dispersion of toxic or flammable clouds
Pages 195-248

Chapter 7 Vulnerability
Pages 249-290

Chapter 8 Quantitative risk analysis
Pages 291-331

Annex 1 Constants in the Antoine equation
Pages 333-334

Annex 2 Flammability limits, flash temperature and heat of combustion (higher value) for different substances
Pages 335-336

Annex 3 Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLs)
Pages 337-343

Annex 4 Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health concentrations (IDLH)
Pages 345-346

Annex 5 Determining the damage to humans from explosions using characteristic curves
Pages 347-351

Index
Pages 353-363