Introduction to Chemical Safety Engineering

Author: Xu Wenbian
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Publish Date: 2002-07-30
Features: This book is a teaching material for the training program of chemical engineering professionals in the 21st century and the establishment of the course on chemical safety and environmental protection. As a public applied technology course for various chemical engineering majors, this textbook emphasizes its general applicability, with a focus on introducing chemical safety knowledge. The chemical industry involves a wide variety of substances, complex and diverse processing processes, high temperatures, high pressures, and deep cold, all of which pose numerous safety risks. In the development and production of chemical products, from raw materials to intermediates and finished products, they often exhibit flammability, explosiveness, toxicity, and harmfulness, leading to frequent accidents, damage, and casualties. The textbook comprehensively introduces safety theories and technologies for fire prevention, explosion prevention, toxicity prevention, corrosion prevention, and occupational hazard prevention, covering aspects such as chemical plant design and operation, pressure vessel and mechanical and electrical equipment operation and maintenance, as well as chemical system analysis and evaluation. The entire content is divided into nine chapters. This book can serve as a textbook for undergraduate chemical engineering students in chemical safety courses and also as a reference for safety training for administrative personnel in chemical enterprises.