Safety considerations in process synthesis

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue SUPPL.1, 1996, Pages

  Heikkilä, Anna Mari ^a   Hurme, Markku ^a   Järveläinen, Martti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Inherent safety; Process design; Process synthesis; Safety aspects; Safety index

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

PROCESS SYNTHESIS; SAFETY INDEX;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 0029725239     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0098-1354(96)00030-0     Document Type: Article

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