MAXCRED - A new software package for rapid risk assessment in chemical process industries

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-25

  Khan, Faisal I ^a   Abbasi, S A ^a  

^a Ctr Poll Contr Ener Technol   (India)

Author keywords

Consequence analysis; Hazard assessment; Quantitative risk assessment; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; USER INTERFACES;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE MAXCRED;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PROCESS INDUSTRY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0344937958     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(97)00031-5     Document Type: Article

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