Safety in design / C.M. van't Land, Van't Land Processing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sales Handles: Describes and makes a case for the use of High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors as better and safer reactors over the currently used Light Water Reactors - Describes the application of the concept of intrinsic continuous process safeguarding in the chemical industry to other fields of society as well, including transportation, farming, the building trade, and leisure - The concept of intrinsic process safeguarding in the chemical industry comprises that the protection of reaction systems is based on their chemical and physical properties and is therefore not endangered by human errors or failures of instrumentation - Includes the description of approximately 70 accidents/incidents - Teaches the reader where applicable to integrate the safety of a design into the design itself - Recommends safe nuclear reactors Market description: Chemical, Civil, Mechanical, Risk, Safety Engineers, Chemists, Physicists, Managers (technical, production, business), Process Safety professionals, HSE professionals Government personnel involved in regulating and overseeing chemical plants and procedures as well as in traffic, storage, production etc Insurers, especially those dealing with catastrophic loss potentials-- Provided by publisher.

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3.2.6 Oil Tankers with Double Hull 21 3.2.7 Two Comet Accidents in 1954 22 3.2.8 Helium Gas for Zeppelins - Zeppelin Crash in 1937 26 3.3 Industry 26 3.3.1 Cotton Spinning Plants 26 3.3.2 Akzo Nobel Extracts Salt Without Subsidence 27 3.3.3 Two New Cocoa Warehouses at Amsterdam in 2011 28 3.3.4 Flame Retardants 29 3.3.5 Clamp-on Ultrasonic Flow Measurement 30 3.4 Society 32 3.4.1 Inundation of Part of The Netherlands in 1953 32 3.4.2 Replacement of Coal Gas by Natural Gas in The Netherlands 34 3.4.3 CFCs 35 3.4.4 Dioxin in Feed 36 3.4.5 Street Motor Races in The Netherlands 36 3.4.6 An Unexpected Effect: Squatters Wear Moped Safety Helmets 37 4 Safety Aspects Need Attention 39 4.1 Introduction 39 4.2 Transport 40 4.2.1 Bus on Natural Gas Afire at Wassenaar in The Netherlands in 2012 40 4.2.2 Light Trucks with Trailers are Dangerous