Industrial Hazards and Plant Safety

This volume was written as a textbook for chemical engineers. The author covers topics he believes every chemical engineer should know about risks that are associated with accidental events. The impact of accidents such as explosions, fires, and accidental releases to the environment are evaluated in terms of the effects they have on human health, property, and the environment. Each chapter is a well-written treatment of a major type of accident that has occurred in the process industries. The case studies that are discussed are well documented and a useful technique for showing how and why specific accidents occurred. This is a well-designed textbook written at a level appropriate for its intended audience of undergraduate engineering students. Exercises are also provided at the end of each chapter. Because the Mathematica software is required to complete some of the exercises, students without access to this software package will not be able to solve all the problems provided. However, it is still a recommended textbook for academic libraries with undergraduate chemical engineering programs.Reviewer: Linda Ackerson, Assistant Engineering Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Grainger Engineering Library, lackerso@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Copyright 2003 E-Streams Reviews