Modeling of BP Texas City refinery incident

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 20, Issue 4-6, 2007, Pages 387-395

  Khan, Faisal I ^a   Amyotte, Paul R ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Explosion; Explosion modeling; Inherently safer design; Risk based design

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EXPLOSION MODELING; INHERENTLY SAFER DESIGN; OPERATIONAL DIFFICULTIES; REALISTIC SCENARIO;

EXPLOSIONS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; EXPLOSIONS; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34548392312     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2007.04.037     Document Type: Article

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