Chemical Process Industry Safety - Softcover

N Raju, Prof K S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9339213653 ISBN 13: 9789339213657

Publisher: McGraw Hill Education (India) Private Limited, 2014

Synopsis

The book is written with a balanced and comprehensive approach towards chemical process safety, involving hazards, both of materials and processes. It includes analysis of hazards in plants in order to further explain the preventive and protective measures along with management involvement and safety audits to the readers. The text can be used as a textbook by under graduate students as well as a reference by industry professionals, consulting organizations, marketing personnel and others involved in safety aspects in process industry.

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About the Author

"K S N Raju is a retired professor of chemical engineering with involvement in chemical engineering education and research covering graduate and undergraduate students for 50 years. He received BSc (Honors) degree in chemical engineering from Andhra University in 1958, M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur in 1959 and PhD from Punjab University in 1971. Dr Raju has been involved in active interaction with the industry, taking up projects and executing them with the induction of graduate students’ onsite in selected industries. He has also been responsible for developing chemical engineering departments at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India; Padmasri Dr B V Raju Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh, India; and BS University of Technology, Libya; besides being involved in curriculum development for several institutions as member of their boards of studies. Dr Raju has published over 90 papers and articles in international magazines and journals. He has supervised graduate research at doctoral and postdoctoral levels, and reviewed publications in international journals and magazines in engineering, including the prestigious assignment by Applied Mechanics Reviews of American Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He has delivered invited lectures on plate heat exchangers at the NATO Advanced Research Institute along with highly distinguished speakers at the international level. He has given onsite courses in industry, covering refineries, gas processing, petro¬chemical, and fertilizer plants with practice-oriented approach, including lectures on several areas of chemical engineering to trainees and practicing engineers in petroleum and petrochemical industry and at international forums. His authorships include the book Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, and Mass Transfer: Chemical Engineering Practice as a joint publication of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and an American publisher. His other publications include Low Reynolds Number Heat Exchanger Design along with several distinguished authors by and an earlier book on Applied Chemistry."

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Education (India) Private Limited
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9339213653
• ISBN 13: 9789339213657
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 536