Vol 26 (2012)
"Volume 26 of Chemical Engineering Transactions, provides a forum on process safety, risk assessment and HSE management. This Book provides a good opportunity to share and gain experience on "hot" topics in emerging risk assessment and management, as the assessment of accident scenarios caused by natural hazards and the safety of energy systems and infrastructures. "
Guest Editors: Valerio Cozzani, Eddy De Rademaeker
Copyright © 2012, AIDIC Servizi S.r.l.
ISBN 978-88-95608-17-4; ISSN 1974-9791

Research Articles

The Essential Elements of a Successful Reactive Chemicals Program
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Propagation of a Vapor Cloud Detonation from a Congested into an Uncongested Area
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Jet Fires: a “Minor” Fire Hazard?
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Safe Optimization of 2-Octanol Oxidation and Vinyl Acetate Emulsion Polymerization
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Hydrogen Peroxide Decomposition Analysis by Screening Calorimetry Technique
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Analysis of Maintenance and Storage Operations in Edible Oil Plants: Formation of Flammable Mixtures
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Safety Criteria for the Epoxydation of Soybean Oil in Fed-Batch Reactor
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Safety Assessment of Solid Propellants for Satellites Engines
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Theoretical Evaluation of the Explosion Regimes of Hybrid Mixtures
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Investigation of Thermal Runaway in Semibatch Chemical Reactors by an Early Warning Detection Device
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63-68
Rigorous Simulation of LPG Releases from Accidental Leaks
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Preserving Safety and Improving Yield Performances in Methanol Processes
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Content of Chromium and Phosphorus in Cements in Relation to the Slovak Cement Eco-Labelling
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Enzymatic Catalysis of Vegetable Oil with Ethanol in the Presence of Co-solvents
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Blast Damage Consideratons for Horizontal Pressure Vessel and Potential for Domino Effects
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Rapid Natech Risk Assessment and Mapping Tool for Earthquakes: RAPID-N
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Sensitivity Analysis of a Short-Cut Methodology for Assessing Earthquake-Related Na-Tech Risk
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A Fuzzy-Sets Based Approach for Modelling Uncertainties in Quantitative Risk Assessment of Industrial Plants Under Seismic Actions
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111-116
Flooding of Industrial Facilities - Vulnerability Reduction in Practice
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Failure and Reliability Predictions by Infinite Impulse Response Locally Recurrent Neural Networks
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Analysis of the Effects due to Ash Fallout from Mt. Etna on Industrial Installations
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Equipment Failure Probability due to the Impact of Lightning
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A Study about Explosion Hazards in Presence of a Uncontrolled Anaerobic Digestive Process
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Modelling Ignition Probabilities within the Framework of Quantitative Risk Assessments
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Dynamic Analysis of Safety Performance Indicators for CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage Activities
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Explosion Load Calculation for Building Design: Risk-Based versus Consequence-Based Approach
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The Interaction of Accidental Explosions with Industrial Equipment Containing Hazardous Substances
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A “Triple Bottom Line” approach to QRA
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A Methodology for the Hazard Assessment in large Hydrocarbon Fuel Tanks
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Opportunities and Threats of Risk Based Inspections: The New Italian Legislation on Pressure Equipment Inspection
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Application Factor Analysis for the Evaluation Surface Water and Sediment Quality
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Risk Indicators of Water Network Operation
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Probabilistic Assessment of Domino Effect Triggered by Fire: Implementation in Quantitative Risk Assessment
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Urban Water Safety Management
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Reuse of Textile Effluent Treated with Advanced Oxidation Process by UV/H2O2
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MSWI Flue Gas Two-Stage Dry Treatment: Modeling and Simulation
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Using Simulated Distillation or Density to Maximize Lubricants Production from Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) Pyrolysis
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Fluoride Removal from Water by Adsorption on a High Alumina Content Bauxite
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Capital Cost Targeting of Total Site Heat Recovery
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Improving Operability and Process Understanding of Sulfur Recovery Units
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Fluid Catalytic Cracking Environmental Impact: Factorial Design Coupled with Genetic Algorithms to Minimize Carbon Monoxide Pollution
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Computer Aided Assessment and Design of Occupationally Healthier Process during Research and Development Stage
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Biodiesel Production by an Integrated Reactive Separation System: A Comparative Study
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LCA Tool for Sustainability Evaluations in the Pharmaceutical Industry
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Valorization of Coffee Grounds for Biodiesel Production
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Human Factors Issues and the Risk of High Voltage Equipment: Are Standards Sufficient to Ensure Safety by Design?
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The Human Factor in Process Safety Management
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Performance Indicators for Training Assessment of Control-Room Operators
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Plugging the Gap between Safety Documents and Workers Perception, to Prevent Accidents at Seveso Establishments
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Industrial Risk in the Lombardy Region (Italy): What People Perceive and What Are the Gaps to Improve the Risk Communication and the Participatory Processes
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The Role of Situation Awareness for the Operators of Process Industry
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A Framework for Ranking the Attack Susceptibility of Components of Critical Infrastructures
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315-320
A Case of Choice of Passive Fire Protection (PFP) in an Oil & Gas EPC Project
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Enhanced Modelling of Exposed PFP Coatings Based on Bench-scale Fire-tests
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Sensitivity Analysis of Scale Deposition on Equipment of Oil Wells Plants
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Development of Hydrogen Leak Sensors for Fuel Cell Transportation
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Automatic Monitoring and Control of Annulus Bottom Hole Pressure for Safe Oil Well Drilling Operations
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The Role of the Combustion Submodel for Large Eddy Simulation of Transient Premixed Flame-Vortex Interactions in Gas Explosions
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The cRPT Phenomenon: Theoretical Evaluations
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Modelling of Vented Gas Explosions in the CFD tool FLACS
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Flame Heights of Di-tert-butyl Peroxide Pool Fires - Experimental Study and Modelling
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Highlighting the Importance of the Pyrolysis Step on Dust Explosions
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Comparison of Fire Hazards in Passive and Conventional Houses
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Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Laminar Burning Velocity of Binary and Ternary Hydrocarbon/H2 Mixtures
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New Revised European Norm on Dust Explosion Venting Protection Systems EN 14491
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393-398
New VDI-Guideline on Fire and Explosion Protection on Elevators
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Response Surface Methodology for Analysis of an Air Curtain Used as Emergency Ventilation System in a Tunnel Fire
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The Effect of Hydrogen addition on the Explosion of Ethanol/Air Mixtures
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411-416
Harmonization of Safety and Security Aspects in Critical Installations of “Seveso”-Type
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Scenario Selection for Land Use Planning Purposes around “Seveso” Establishments
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Major Risk Installations and Land Use Planning: Application of the Local Authority Guidelines in Piedmont (Italy)
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The Price and Complications of Safety Compliance – an Australian Perspective
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435-440
Safety and Environmental Standards for Fuel Storage Sites: how to enhance the Safety Integrity of an Overfill Protection System for Flammable Fuel Storage Tanks
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Environmental Deviation Assessment, Record, Failure, Probability and Investment
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Program to Avoid Product Leakage at Source, Fertilizer Case
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Integrated Approach Proposal for Evaluation of both Environmental and Accidental Risks in Industrial Management
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Large Projects Integrators. Analysis and Management of the Data for Risk Assessment
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465-470
Security within the Chemical Process Industry: Survey Results from Flanders, Belgium
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Descriptive Model of Indicators for Environment, Health and Safety Management
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Performance Assessment of Crisis Management Plans with the Contribution of Multi-agent Systems
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483-488
Proposal of a Reference Geo-database to Support Safety Tasks Involving the Land Context of Seveso Establishments
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IPESHE: an Index for Quantifying the Performance for Safety and Health in a Workplace
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Evaluation of Workers Accidents Through Risk Analysis
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People Evacuation: Simplified Evaluation of Available Safe Egress Time (ASET) in Enclosures
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Correct and Effective Characterization of Fire-arms Noise: a Basic Aspect to Provide Reliable Input Data for the Reduction of Emitted Noise from Shooting Ranges in Urbanized Area
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Development of HSE Management CALS-System for Waste Utilisation of Phosphoric Industry of Russian Federation and Kazakhstan
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A New Model for Evaluating Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS)
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Pro-active Control of Atmospheric Emissions in Research and Small Labs. A Practical Criterion for the Design and Management of Activities under Hoods
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Changes in the Activity of the Pulmonary Surfactant after Contact with Bentonite Nanoclay Particles
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Consequences Assessment of an Accidental Toxic Gas Release Through a CFD Tool: Effect of the Terrain and Major Obstacles
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An Approach to Carbon Dioxide Particle Distribution in Accidental Releases
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549-554
Estimating Toxic Risk Exposure to Populations Inside Buildings
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Simulation of Accidental Release by Means of two Different Modeling Approaches
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Best Real Time Model Development of an Oil Well Drilling System
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An Observational Analysis of Seismic Vulnerability of Industrial Pipelines
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Conceptual Models for CO2 Release and Risk Assessment: a Review
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Dangerous Goods Transportation by Road: a Risk Analysis Model and a Global Integrated Information System to Monitor Hazardous Materials Land Transportation in Order to Protect Territory
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Kinetic Evaluations for the Transportation of Dangerous Chemical Compounds
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Predicting Nutrient Loads in Chosen Catchment
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Industrial Site Workplace Transport and Safety Management
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Risk Assessment of Past Exposure in Forensic Engineering
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609-614
Modern Methodologies of Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites Applied to an Industrial Accident Occurred in 1976
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The Thyssen Krupp Accident in Torino: Investigation Methods, Accident Dynamics and Lesson Learned
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621-626
Deepwater Horizon: Lessons learned for the Norwegian Petroleum Industry with focus on Technical Aspects
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Formalized Approach in Prevention through Design and Detailed Definition of the Input Data on the Basis of Occurred Accidents: Some Experiences at Italian Extractive Activities
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Forensic Reconstruction of the Explosion that Occurred at the Cordero Flour Mill, Cuneo, Italy
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