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Process plant piping : practical guide to fabrication, installation, inspection, testing and commissioning
\"This book is designed as a complete guide to manufacturing, installation, inspection, testing and commissioning of process plant piping. It provides exhaustive coverage of the entire piping spool fabrication, including receiving material inspection at site, material traceability, installation of spools at site, inspection, testing, and pre-commissioning activities. In nutshell, it serves as a complete guide to piping fabrication and erection. In addition, typical formats for use in piping fabrication for effective implementation of QA/QC requirements, inspection and test plans, and typical procedures for all types of testing are included\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Pinch Analysis and Process Integration - A User Guide on Process Integration for the Efficient Use of Energy (2nd Edition)
Pinch analysis and related techniques are the key to design of inherently energy-efficient plants. This book shows engineers how to understand and optimize energy use in their processes, whether large or small. Energy savings go straight to the bottom line as increased profit, as well as reducing emissions.
This is the key guide to process integration for both experienced and newly qualified engineers, as well as academics and students. It begins with an introduction to the main concepts of pinch analysis, the calculation of energy targets for a given process, the pinch temperature and the golden rules of pinch-based design to meet energy targets.
Supported by valuable downloadable software, the book shows how to extract the stream data necessary for a pinch analysis and describes the targeting process in depth. Other essential details include the design of heat exchanger networks, hot and cold utility systems, CHP (combined heat and power), refrigeration and optimization of system operating conditions. Many tips and techniques for practical application are covered, supported by several detailed case studies and other examples covering a wide range of industries, including buildings and other non-process situations.
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Chemical Process Retrofitting and Revamping
The proposed book will be divided into three parts. The chapters in Part I provide an overview of certain aspect of process retrofitting. The focus of Part II is on computational techniques for solving process retrofit problems. Finally, Part III addresses retrofit applications from diverse process industries.
Some chapters in the book are contributed by practitioners whereas others are from academia. Hence, the book includes both new developments from research and also practical considerations. Many chapters include examples with realistic data. All these feature make the book useful to industrial engineers, researchers and students.
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Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Exposures and Incident Cancers among Adults Living Near a Chemical Plant
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a synthetic chemical ubiquitous in the serum of U.S. residents. It causes liver, testicular, and pancreatic tumors in rats. Human studies are sparse.
We examined cancer incidence in Mid-Ohio Valley residents exposed to PFOA in drinking water due to chemical plant emissions.
The cohort consisted of adult community residents who resided in contaminated water districts or worked at a local chemical plant. Most participated in a 2005-2006 baseline survey in which serum PFOA was measured. We interviewed the cohort in 2008-2011 to obtain further medical history. Retrospective yearly PFOA serum concentrations were estimated for each participant from 1952 through 2011. Self-reported cancers were validated through medical records and cancer registry review. We estimated the association between cancer and cumulative PFOA serum concentration using proportional hazards models.
Participants (n = 32,254) reported 2,507 validated cancers (21 different cancer types). Estimated cumulative serum PFOA concentrations were positively associated with kidney and testicular cancer [hazard ratio (HR) = 1.10; 95% CI: 0.98, 1.24 and HR = 1.34; 95% CI: 1.00, 1.79, respectively, for 1-unit increases in ln-transformed serum PFOA]. Categorical analyses also indicated positive trends with increasing exposures for both cancers: for kidney cancer HRs for increasing exposure quartiles were 1.0, 1.23, 1.48, and 1.58 (linear trend test p = 0.18) and for testicular cancer, HRs were 1.0, 1.04, 1.91, 3.17 (linear trend test p = 0.04).
PFOA exposure was associated with kidney and testicular cancer in this population. Because this is largely a survivor cohort, findings must be interpreted with caution, especially for highly fatal cancers such as pancreatic and lung cancer.
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What went Wrong? - Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided (5th Edition)
This book continues and extends the wisdom, innovations and strategies of previous editions, by introducing new material on recent incidents and adding an extensive new section that shows how many accidents occur through simple miscommunications within the organization, and how straight-forward changes in design can often remove or reduce opportunities for human errors. The author's approach to learning as deeply as possible from previous experiences is made yet more valuable in this new edition, which for the first time brings together the approaches and cases of \"What went Wrong\" with the managerially focused material previously published in \"Still Going Wrong\". Updated and supplemented with new cases and analysis, this Fifth Edition is the ultimate resource of experienced based analysis and guidance for the safety and loss prevention professionals.
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Bow ties in risk management : a concept book for process safety
\"Explains how to construct bow ties of high practical value for operationalizing barriers, avoiding common pitfalls, with realistic examples -Explains how to treat human and organizational factors in a sound and practical manner -Proposes a standardization of terminology and definitions associated with bow ties by drawing on a wealth of industry experience from well-known experts -Explains how to apply the bow tie method to create high value organizational learning from incidents and audits -Explains the practical application and value of bow ties in plant management and active risk management, from the control room to the board room Marketing Description: -Members of: AIChE, CCPS, ISA, ASME, ASSE, ACS, AIHA, OSHA, ICMA, European Process Safety Centre (EPSC), American Chemistry Council (ACC) -Members of trade associations such as API, NPRA, ACC and SOCMA in the US and similar associations around the world -Readers of: Journals of the societies mentioned above, Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Progress, C&E News\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Process Plants
This second edition of a bestseller provides a well-illustrated resource that comprehensively covers the design of inherently safer and user-friendly plants. The book demonstrates how chemical plants can withstand human error and equipment failures without serious effects on safety, output, or efficiency. This edition features new chapters that outline the role of inherently safer design in explosion prevention and mitigation and the link between inherently safer design and process safety design. New sections address the hierarchy of controls and highlight human factors in determining risk. The text also includes case studies that review major process incidents.
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