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Incidents That Define Process Safety (CCPS Concept Books) | 
| Author: Center For Chemical Process Safety (ccps)
Publisher: Wiley-AIChE
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0470122048
Dewey Decimal Number: 660.2804
EAN: 9780470122044
ASIN: 0470122048
Publication Date: April 4, 2008
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Product Description
Apply lessons learned from major process and transportation incidents to improve process safety
Incidents That Define Process Safety describes approximately fifty incidents that have had a significant impact on the chemical and refining industries' approaches to modern process safety. Events are described in detail so readers get a fundamental understanding of the root causes, the consequences, the lessons learned, and actions that can prevent a recurrence. There are exhaustive investigative reports about these events; the goal of this reference is to consolidate and archive concise information on representative incidents that are relevant today so readers can apply the resulting safety principles to their current operations. Incidents That Define Process Safety: - Is very easy too read and hard to put down
- Includes descriptions of U.S. incidents, such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill; the HF release at Marathon Oil Refinery in Texas City in October 1987; the explosion in an isomerization unit at BP's Texas City Refinery in March 2005; and more
- Covers incidents worldwide, including the Piper Alpha Oil Platform disaster in 1988, the collapse of a furnace stack and multiple fires at the Tupras oil refinery in Turkey after an earthquake, the Bhopal disaster, and more
- Incorporates events from other industries that have implications for the chemical industry, such as the NASA Challenger Disaster, Chernobyl, and more
- Includes photographs of the incident consequences and references for additional study
Presented to raise process safety awareness, to help readers learn from previous incidents, and to supplement established initiatives and materials, this book is a valuable reference for engineers and technicians involved in the design and operation of chemical and petroleum processing facilities, as well as managers and decision makers in these industries. It is also an enlightening supplement to many chemical engineering courses.
BP Process Safety Community of Practice has published a series of more than fifteen booklets on process safety applied to the oil and gas industry under the coordination of Frederic Gil, Process Safety & Fire Engineering Advisor for BP plc, in Sunbury, UK, and John Atherton, BP plc, retired.
Since 1985, the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) has been the world leader in developing and disseminating information on process safety management and technology. CCPS, an industry technology alliance of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), has published more than eighty books in its process safety guidelines and process safety concepts series.
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 Sometimes less is more August 8, 2008
As a Reliability Engineer working for a major refinery I wanted to like this book. The sections that explain the sequence of events behind refinery safety incidents is excellent, and provides meaningful lessons learned that can be applied in all processing and manufacturing industries. It is commendable for BP to make public their excellent and culture-forming lessons about Process Safety Management, and I ordered this book expecting it to be an extension or perhaps a summary of the fact-based and well-articulated series of sixteen volumes available from Amazon and IChemE (ISBN 0852955219). What spoiled it for me is their insertion "lessons learned" from historic disasters based on limited research from internet searches (see the Hindenburg summary on page 52 - 56 for example.) I come away with the impression that the authors communicated safety lessons in reverse - that is, they started with a good safety message then tried to find a case history to attach it to, rather than considering a failure then asking "what did we learn from this?" This makes it difficult in some cases to link the safety message to the case history and at times detracts from a safety message that would otherwise stand good on its own.
 great breadth and depth May 10, 2008
This book goes a lot further than previous books, in that it looks at incidents outside the process industry, and explores the failings of all elements of process safety. Obviously BP is stepping up the effort to become a recognized leader in process safety (those words were written for them by someone else, weren't they?) Anyway, it's a fascinating and informative read that should arm process safety professionals for scenarios from the boardroom to the confined space.
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