Thermal safety of chemical processes : risk assessment and process design

Preface. Part I General Aspects of Thermal Process Safety. 1 Introduction to Risk Analysis of Fine Chemical Processes. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Chemical Industry and Safety. 1.3 Risk Analysis. 1.4 Safety Data. 1.5 Systematic Search for Hazards. 1.6 Key Factors for a Successful Risk Analysis. 2 Fundamentals of Thermal Process Safety. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Energy Potential. 2.3 Effect of Temperature on Reaction Rate. 2.4 Heat Balance. 2.5 Runaway Reactions. 2.6 Exercises. 3 Assessment of Thermal Risks. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Thermal Risks. 3.3 Systematic Assessment Procedure. 3.4 Assessment Procedures. 3.5 Exercises. 4 Experimental Techniques. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Calorimetric Measurement Principles. 4.3 Choice of Instruments Used in Safety Laboratories. 4.4 Exercises. Part II Mastering Exothermal Reactions. 5 General Aspects of Reactor Safety. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Dynamic Stability of Reactors. 5.3 Example. 6 Batch Reactors. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Principles of Batch Reaction. 6.3 Strategies of Temperature Control. 6.4 Isothermal Reactions. 6.5 Adiabatic Reaction. 6.6 Polytropic Reaction. 6.7 Isoperibolic Reaction. 6.8 Temperature Controlled Reaction. 6.9 Key Factors for the Safe Design of Batch Reactors. 6.10 Exercises. 7 Semi-batch Reactors. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Principles of Semi-batch Reaction. 7.3 Reactant Accumulation in Semi-batch Reactors. 7.4 Design of Safe Semi-batch Reactors. 7.5 Isothermal Reaction. 7.6 Isoperibolic, Constant Cooling Medium Temperature. 7.7 Non-isothermal Reaction. 7.8 Strategies of Feed Control. 7.9 Choice of Temperature and Feed Rate. 7.10 Feed Control by Accumulation. 7.11 Exercises. 8 Continuous Reactors. 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Continuous Stirred Tank Reactors. 8.3 Tubular Reactors. 8.4 Other Continuous Reactor Types. 9 Technical Aspects of Reactor Safety. 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Temperature Control of Industrial Reactors. 9.3 Heat Exchange Across the Wall. 9.4 Evaporative Cooling. 9.5 Dynamics of the Temperature Control System and Process Design. 9.6 Exercises. 10 Risk Reducing Measures. 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 Strategies of Choice. 10.3 Eliminating Measures. 10.4 Technical Preventing Measures. 10.5 Emergency Measures. 10.6 Design of Technical Measures. 10.7 Exercises. Part III Avoiding Secondary Reactions. 11 Thermal Stability. 11.1 Introduction. 11.2 Thermal Stability and Secondary Decomposition Reactions. 11.3 Consequences of Secondary Reactions. 11.4 Triggering Conditions. 11.5 Experimental Characterization of Decomposition Reactions. 11.6 Exercises. 12 Autocatalytic Reactions. 12.1 Introduction. 12.2 Autocatalytic Decompositions. 12.3 Characterization of Autocatalytic Reactions. 12.4 Practical Safety Aspects for Autocatalytic Reactions. 12.5 Exercises. 13 Heat Confi nement. 13.1 Introduction. 13.2 Heat Accumulation Situations. 13.3 Heat Balance. 13.4 Heat Balance with Reactive Material. 13.5 Assessing Heat Accumulation Conditions. 13.6 Exercises. 14 Symbols. Index.