Safety design criteria for industrial plants : volume II / edited by Maurizio Cumo and Antonio Naviglio.

Includes index.

The risk -- The technological risk -- High-risk plants and risk identification -- Risk analysis and assessment methodologies -- Elements of static and event analysis -- Risk analysis as an instrument of design -- System reliability assessment via sensitivity analysis -- Internal damage risk causes -- General safety-related design criteria -- Thermodynamic damage causes - safety analyses -- Chemical damage causes - Explosive substances management -- The role of instrumentation and control -- Effluents dispersion and methods to evaluate their effects -- Exposure limitation in normal operating conditions -- Exposure limitation following accidents: siting and emergency planning -- External damage causes -- Natural events: seismic and geotechnical aspects -- Natural events: severe meteorological events -- Artificial events: area events -- Artificial events: human factors -- Conventional risks -- Conventional risks -- Characteristics and safe management of hazardous chemical substances (as in the list of CEE directive no. 501.).