Fire and Explosion Hazards Handbook of Industrial Chemicals

Fire and Explosion Hazards Handbook of Industrial Chemicals
Author: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 081551719X

The handbook provides ready information on the fire and chemical reactivity of commonly used chemicals. Its purpose is to provide basic information important to the safe handling of chemicals and to help provide guidance in responding to a hazardous materials incident, in particular, incidents involving reactive chemicals and materials posing fire and explosion hazards. The volume has been written for chemical handling specialists, first responders to hazardous materials incidents, and firefighters. The basic definition used for a hazard materials incident is any situation that may potentially lead to catastrophic fire or explosion, and or human exposed to a toxic chemical. This situation may result from a spill of a hazardous material, a leak from a storage vessel or shipping container, or the mixing of incompatible chemicals whereby a chemical reaction could occur resulting in the release of energy and generation of toxic and perhaps flammable by-products. The volume provides chemical specific information, providing the reader with rigorous information on the chemical of interest.This book is a compendium of chemical specific fire and chemical reactivity data and information. More than 1,000 chemicals have been researched and organized into a reference handbook for fire specialists, chemical handling specialists, and plant safety engineers. The specific information provided for chemicals includes the flammability characteristics, recommended fire extinguishing practices, fire extinguishing agents not to be used, behavior in fires, burning characteristics, chemical reactivity with regard to water and common materials, incompatible chemical mixtures, containment and neutralization methods for spills. This reference book has been designed as a data bank for the hazardous materials handling specialist and industrial safety managers dealing with large chemical inventories. It is intended to be used by fire and loss prevention specialists and as a basis for developing procedures for safe storing and handling of chemicals. The authors have included an extensive physical properties section on chemicals, with information most pertinent to fire response situations.

Fire & Explosion Hazards Handbook Of Industrial Chemicals

Fire & Explosion Hazards Handbook Of Industrial Chemicals
Author: Davletshina & Chermisinoff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Chemicals
ISBN: 9788179920626

This book is a compendium of chemical specific fire and chemical reactivity data and information. More than 1000 chemicals have been researched and organized into a reference handbook for fire specialist, chemical handling specialist, and plant safety engineers. The specific information provided for chemicals includes the flammability characteristics, recommended fire extinguishing practices, fire extinguishing agents not to be use, behavior in fires, burning characteristics, chemical reactivity with regard to water and common materials, incompatible chemical mixtures, containment and neutralization methods for spills.

Handbook of Industrial Toxicology and Hazardous Materials

Handbook of Industrial Toxicology and Hazardous Materials
Author: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 925
Release: 1999-01-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1482292955

Providing vital safety information on over 1000 commerical chemicals, this work explores up-to-date data on fire and chemical compatibility, response methods for incidents involving chemical spills and fires, and personnel and worksite safety monitoring and sampling. The book includes more than 700 illustrations, structures, equations and tables, and a glossary with over 700 definitions.

Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Principles

Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Principles
Author: Dennis P. Nolan
Publisher: William Andrew
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2014-05-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 032331144X

Written by an engineer for engineers, this book is both training manual and on-going reference, bringing together all the different facets of the complex processes that must be in place to minimize the risk to people, plant and the environment from fires, explosions, vapour releases and oil spills. Fully compliant with international regulatory requirements, relatively compact but comprehensive in its coverage, engineers, safety professionals and concerned company management will buy this book to capitalize on the author’s life-long expertise. This is the only book focusing specifically on oil and gas and related chemical facilities. This new edition includes updates on management practices, lessons learned from recent incidents, and new material on chemical processes, hazards and risk reviews (e.g. CHAZOP). Latest technology on fireproofing, fire and gas detection systems and applications is also covered. An introductory chapter on the philosophy of protection principles along with fundamental background material on the properties of the chemicals concerned and their behaviours under industrial conditions, combined with a detailed section on modern risk analysis techniques makes this book essential reading for students and professionals following Industrial Safety, Chemical Process Safety and Fire Protection Engineering courses. A practical, results-oriented manual for practicing engineers, bringing protection principles and chemistry together with modern risk analysis techniques Specific focus on oil and gas and related chemical facilities, making it comprehensive and compact Includes the latest best practice guidance, as well as lessons learned from recent incidents

Hazardous Chemicals Handbook

Hazardous Chemicals Handbook
Author: P A CARSON
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 008052379X

Summarizes core information for quick reference in the workplace, using tables and checklists wherever possible. Essential reading for safety officers, company managers, engineers, transport personnel, waste disposal personnel, environmental health officers, trainees on industrial training courses and engineering students. This book provides concise and clear explanation and look-up data on properties, exposure limits, flashpoints, monitoring techniques, personal protection and a host of other parameters and requirements relating to compliance with designated safe practice, control of hazards to people's health and limitation of impact on the environment. The book caters for the multitude of companies, officials and public and private employees who must comply with the regulations governing the use, storage, handling, transport and disposal of hazardous substances. Reference is made throughout to source documents and standards, and a Bibliography provides guidance to sources of wider ranging and more specialized information. Dr Phillip Carson is Safety Liaison and QA Manager at the Unilever Research Laboratory at Port Sunlight. He is a member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, of the Institution of Chemical Engineers' Loss Prevention Panel and of the Chemical Industries Association's `Exposure Limits Task Force' and `Health Advisory Group'. Dr Clive Mumford is a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Aston and a consultant. He lectures on several courses of the Certificate and Diploma of the National Examining Board in Occupational Safety and Health. [Given 5 star rating] - Occupational Safety & Health, July 1994 - Loss Prevention Bulletin, April 1994 - Journal of Hazardous Materials, November 1994 - Process Safety & Environmental Prot., November 1994

A Comprehensive Guide to the Hazardous Properties of Chemical Substances

A Comprehensive Guide to the Hazardous Properties of Chemical Substances
Author: Pradyot Patnaik
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1086
Release: 2007-05-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0471714585

The definitive guide to the hazardous properties of chemical compounds Correlating chemical structure with toxicity to humans and the environment, and the chemical structure of compounds to their hazardous properties, A Comprehensive Guide to the Hazardous Properties of Chemical Substances, Third Edition allows users to assess the toxicity of a substance even when no experimental data exists. Thus, it bridges the gap between hazardous materials and chemistry. Extensively updated and expanded, this reference: Examines organics, metals and inorganics, industrial solvents, common gases, particulates, explosives, and radioactive substances, covering everything from toxicity and carcinogenicity to flammability and explosive reactivity to handling and disposal practices Arranges hazardous chemical substances according to their chemical structures and functional groups for easy reference Includes updated information on the toxic, flammable, and explosive properties of chemical substances Covers additional metals in the chapters on toxic and reactive metals Updates the threshold exposure limits in the workplace air for a number of substances Features the latest information on industrial solvents and toxic and flammable gases Includes numerous tables, formulas, and a glossary for quick reference Because it provides information that enables those with a chemistry background to perform assessments without prior data, this comprehensive reference appeals to chemists, chemical engineers, toxicologists, and forensic scientists, as well as industrial hygienists, occupational physicians, Hazmat professionals, and others in related fields.

Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards

Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards
Author: Peter Urben
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 1522
Release: 2017-03-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0081010591

Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, Eighth Edition presents the latest updates on the unexpected, but predictable, loss of containment and explosion hazards from chemicals and their admixtures and actual accidents. The extensively cross-referenced book enables readers to avoid explosion and loss of containment of chemicals. Primary and more specialized sources are easily traced, and this new edition includes available record updates, also adding a number of new records. In this newly updated and expanded edition, the content is presented in a clear and user-friendly format. Includes new pure compound/class of compounds records and updates on all existing records Presents a worldwide unique reference work on chemical reactive hazards Lists important hazardous reactions and includes references to real chemical incidents Provides guidelines on the safe use and handling of chemicals In the lab and industry

Handbook of Hazardous Chemical Properties

Handbook of Hazardous Chemical Properties
Author: Nicholas P Cheremisinoff
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 445
Release: 1999-11-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080523838

This volume provides extensive health (toxicological) and safety handling information and data on over 1,000 chemicals of commercial and industrial importance. This volume will provide extensive health (toxicological) and safe-handling information and data on more than 1000 chemicals of commercial and industrial importance. It provides chemical specific information pertinent to safe handling and transportation of chemicals, worker protection, emergency response information to address spills, explosions on fire situations, and chemical stability/reactivity data. It is designed as a standard reference handbook for chemical engineers, safety engineers, toxicologists, fire safety specialists, chemists, laboratory and plant technicians. Provides extensive health and safe-handling information on more than 1,000 Standard reference work for those involved in chemical engineering and related fields

Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards

Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards
Author: Martin John Pitt
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2007
Genre: Science
ISBN:

This handbook is an assembly of all reported risks such as explosion, fire, toxic or high-energy events that result from chemical reactions gone astray, with extensive referencing to the primary literature. Entries are ordered by empirical formula and indexed under both name(s) and Chemical Abstracts Registry Numbers. Toxicity hazards are only included for unexpected reactions giving volatile poisons.

Explosion Hazards in the Process Industries

Explosion Hazards in the Process Industries
Author: Rolf K. Eckhoff
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2016-06-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 012803274X

Explosion Hazards in the Process Industries, Second Edition, delivers the most current and comprehensive content for today’s process engineer. Process safety and petrochemical engineers inherently accept that there is a risk of explosions when working on process facilities such as plants and refineries. Yet many that enter this field do not have a fundamental starting point to understand the nature of explosions, and there are a lot of misconceptions and impartial information in the market. Explosion Hazards in the Process Industries, Second Edition, answers this need by providing engineers and consultants a go-to reference and training guide to understand the principles of explosions, what causes them, and how to mitigate and prevent them from reoccurring. Enhanced to include new chapters on BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosions), water vapor explosions, and destructive effects from accidental explosions, this guide continues to fulfill a comprehensive introduction to the subject, rounded out with new case studies, references, and a discussion on methods of hazard and risk analysis. Eckoff, Dust Explosions in the Process Industries, 3rd Edition, 9780750676021, Jun 2003, $240.00 Amyotte, An Introduction to Dust Explosions, 9780123970077, Jun 2013, $49.95 Barton, Dust Explosion Prevention and Protection, 9780750675192, Mar 2002, $155.00 Nolan, Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Handbook Principles, 3rd, 9780323313018, May 2014, $160.00