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This book part of a required reading program for all engineers, as part of our company's process safety program. Anyone involved in chemical or petroleum operations, will benefit greatly from the wisdom that can be gained by learning from other's mistakes. This allows for easy short term reading periods appropriate for training classes or casual reading. The book recounts numerous actual process plant accidents and incidents, includes causes and effects, and avoidance and mitigation practices. This book help keep memories alive. Moreover, it is concerned with the immediate technical causes of accidents and the changes in design and procedures needed to prevent them from happening again.
1. Preparation for maintenance
2. Modifications
3. Accidents Caused by Human error
4. Labeling
5. Storage tanks
6. Stacks
7. Leaks
8. Liquefied flammable Gases
9. Pipe and Vessel Failure
10. Other Equipment
11. Entry to Vessels
12. Hazard of Common Material
13. Tank Trucks and Cars
14. Testing of trips and other Protective Systems
15. Static Electricity
16. Materials of Construction
17. Operating Methods
18. Reverse Flow and Other Unforeseen Deviations
19. I Didn’t Know that
20. Problem With Computer Control
21. Inherently Safer Design
22. Reactions-Planned And Unplanned
