Process Safety for Chemical Engineers
A Chemical Engineering Handbook and Reference Manual Section by Section for the PE ExamBy Ingrid Halvorsen
Length17h 52m
About this audiobook
Process safety is not a chapter at the back of chemical engineering. It is the reason most of the design equations exist.
This reference puts the two together, section by section, in the order a practising engineer works. You will find the property data and estimation methods your calculations rest on, reactor design equations extended into thermal stability and runaway criteria, flammability and ignition behaviour, source terms and dispersion, fire and explosion consequences, and relief sizing including two-phase scenarios.
Hazard identification, fault and event trees, layer of protection analysis and inherently safer design follow, each with worked numbers rather than description alone, and the closing chapter supplies PE-format problems mapped back to every section. For chemical engineers in design and operations and for PE candidates.
What you will learn:
• Apply process safety management principles and risk concepts to real plant decisions
• Estimate physical properties and use them correctly in hazard calculations
• Use material and energy balances as diagnostic tools for abnormal situations
• Extend chemical reaction engineering fundamentals to thermal stability and runaway criteria
• Evaluate flammability limits, ignition behaviour, and their impact on safe operation
• Model source terms and dispersion for accidental releases
• Assess fire and explosion consequences with practical methods
• Size pressure relief systems, including two-phase flow scenarios
• Perform hazard identification, quantitative risk analysis, and layer of protection analysis
• Apply inherently safer design and plant layout principles
• Solve PE-format problems mapped to each section of the handbook
This book is for chemical engineers in design and operations who need a working reference that connects fundamentals to process safety, and for PE candidates preparing for the chemical engineering exam. It assumes a background in chemical engineering principles and provides worked numbers, not just descriptions, so you can apply the methods directly.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology
Length17 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Process Safety for Chemical Engineers
2Foreword
3Preface
4About This Book
5Important Safety Notice
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6Chapter 1: Hazard, Risk and Process Safety Management
71.1 Hazard, Risk, and the Language of Process Safety
81.2 Accident Sequences and the Loss of Containment Model
91.3 Regulatory and Consensus Frameworks
101.4 The Elements of a Process Safety Management System
111.5 Safety Obligations Mapped onto Design Work
121.6 Risk Reduction, ALARP, and the Cost of Safety
13Chapter 2: Physical Property Data and Estimation
142.1 Property Data Sources and Their Uncertainty
152.2 Vapor Pressure and Phase Behaviour
162.3 Density, Heat Capacity, and Thermal Properties
172.4 Flammability and Toxicity Data
182.5 Mixture Properties and Mixing Rules
192.6 Documenting the Property Basis
20Chapter 3: Material and Energy Balances as Hazard Tools
213.1 The Balance Equation and the Accumulation Term
223.2 Inventory, Holdup, and Minimisation
233.3 Energy Balances and Heat Duty
243.4 Worst-Case and Credible-Case Balances
253.5 Balances for Relief and Flare Loads
263.6 Balance Errors and Their Safety Consequences
27Chapter 4: Chemical Reaction Engineering Fundamentals
284.1 Rate Laws, Order, and Temperature Dependence
294.2 Conversion, Selectivity, and Yield
304.3 Batch Reactor Design Equations
314.4 Continuous Stirred-Tank Reactor Design
324.5 Plug-Flow and Tubular Reactor Design
334.6 Reactor Heat Transfer and Temperature Control
34Chapter 5: Reactor Thermal Stability and Runaway Reactions
355.1 Heat Generation and Heat Removal
365.2 Adiabatic Temperature Rise
375.3 Runaway Criteria and Time to Maximum Rate
385.4 Multiple Steady States and Parametric Sensitivity
395.5 Calorimetric Screening Methods
405.6 Design and Operating Measures Against Runaway
41Chapter 6: Flammability and Ignition
426.1 Flash Point and Its Measurement
436.2 Flammable Limits and Inerting
446.3 Autoignition and Minimum Ignition Energy
456.4 Static Electricity and Electrical Ignition Sources
466.5 Flammability in Process Equipment
47Chapter 7: Source Terms and Dispersion
487.1 Hole and Pipe Discharge
497.2 Flashing Liquids and Two-Phase Release
507.3 Neutral and Dense-Gas Dispersion
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