Assessment of chemical process hazards in early design stages

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 18, Issue 4-6, 2005, Pages 335-352

  Shah, Shailesh ^a   Fischer, Ulrich ^a   Hungerbühler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Early process design; Process safety; SREST layer assessment method

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMATION; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

CHEMICAL PROCESSES; EARLY PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS SAFETY; SREST-LAYER-ASSESSMENT METHOD;

HAZARDS;

SAFETY;

EID: 25444524073     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2005.06.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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