Process Safety : A Practical Guide

Many chemical engineering graduates leave university with limited practical experience, including in the important field of process safety. Authored by two veterans of industry, this book provides early career engineers with a strong practical background in process safety. It contains basic theory to bolster an understanding of the subject, whilst the bulk of the book gives practical information covering both design and operation of process plants. It offers an interactive approach, with frequent links between chapters and inclusion of numerous case histories to illustrate and support the text.

Key Features:

• Serves as a simple introduction with a bias towards practical and realistic solutions
• Discusses a wide range of safety-related subjects with comprehensive links to more detailed references
• Covers both design and operation of plants
• Features a significant number of brief case histories to offer real-world context, many of which have not been published elsewhere

With its accessible and hands-on approach, this book gives early career chemical engineers a deeper understanding of the issues they will face whilst on the job and practical solutions to address and avoid problems. The book’s many case studies will also be of value to more experienced engineers.

Frank Crawley served as a plant commissioning and start-up manager at Olefine Plants in ICI for seven years. He had a further 10 years "special duties" on ICI Nylon Intermediates. For 10 years, he was leader of the safety and loss prevention (now called process safety) engineering team in a major oil company. After retirement, he spent over 10 years as senior lecturer at Strathclyde University in parallel with consultancy activities.

Doug Scott graduated from the University of Bradford with a degree in chemical engineering and management economics. After working for 10 years in a variety of roles for oil and chemical companies, he joined the insurance industry as a risk engineer and over 35 years has visited hundreds of facilities around the world to perform risk surveys and advise on safety-related aspects of design and operation. He has been involved in a number of loss investigations and is the author of numerous technical papers.