Accident and Emergency Management

Using the average velocity of 9.89 mpd (rather than 8.28 mpd) results in the following concentration profile equation  

Theodore has provided an approach to account for these two variations. Assume the increase in velocity (and volumetric fiowrate) occurs linearly down the system. For this condition 

Since the volumetric flowrate correspondingly increases, a concentration reduction will occur due to its dilution effect. This accounting is obtained by dividing the concentration by the factor (1+ 0.16 lor). The describing equation now becomes 

Thomann and Mueller, provide other approaches in solving this type of problem.  

Accidents are a fact of life, whether they are a careless mishap at home, an unavoidable collision on the freeway, or a miscalculation at a chemical plant Even in prehistoric times, long before the advent of technology, a club-wielding caveman might have swung at his prey and inadvertently toppled his friend in what can only be classified as an accident.  

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The author s also wish to acknowledge tlie contributors to the first generation Jolm Wiley (1989) text titled Accident and Emergency Management . 

Theodore, L., J. P. Reynolds, and F. B. Taylor. 1989. Accident and Emergency Management. New York John Wiley Sons. 

Theodore, Reynolds, and Taylor—Accident and Emergency Management, Wiley-Interscience. 

L. Tlieodore and K. Morris, "Accident and Emergency Management , Tlieodore Tutorials, East Williston, NY, 1998. 

The reader is referred to Part IV, Chapter 21 in the Accident and Emergency Management Section for details. 

The author of this book has applied this somewhat unique approach and included numerous open-ended problems in several earlier course offerings at Manhattan College. Student comments for the graduate course Accident and Emergency Management were tabulated for one such course. Student (unedited) responses to the question "What aspects of thi-s course were most beneficial to you are listed below. 

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE 20.14 You have been hired as a accident and emergency management consultant to consider the exothermic Diels-Alder reaction treated earlier. Based on laboratory data, you have been informed that the reactor can explode if the reaction mixture temperature exceeds 140°F. Outline what additional design factors need to be considered to help prevent and/or reduce the possibility of an accident. ... 

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