Fires, Explosion, Toxic Emissions, and Hazardous Spills

Explosions, Toxic Emissions, and Hazardous Spills 

Some of tlie preceding cliapters liave dealt witli tlie history and legislation of emergency and accidents tliis cliapter addresses specifically tlie fundamentals of plant fires, explosions, and certain otlier plant- and non-plant-related accidents. 

Tlie remainder of tliis cliapter provides information on relative physical properties of materials (flash points, upper and lower explosive limits, tlireshold limit values, etc.) and metliods to calculate tlie conditions tliat approach or are conducive to liazardous levels. Fire liazards in industrial plants are covered in Sections 7.2 and 7.3, and Sections 7.4 and 7.5 focus on accidental explosions. Sections 7.6 and 7.7 address toxic emissions and liazardous spills respectively. tliese latter types of accident frequently result in fires and explosions tliey can cause deatlis, serious injuries and financial losses. 

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Accidents such as fires, explosions, toxic emissions, and hazardous spills, are dealt with in Uie next cliapter. Tlie decision to include Uiese in a separate chapter was not as easy as one would expect since the topics of both chapters could be classified as accidents. However, in order to treat the accidents in a cause and effect marmer, it was felt Uiat fires, explosions, etc., could well be considered an effect arising from Uie generic accidents discussed in Uiis cliapter. 

Fires, Explosions, Toxic Emissions, and Hazardous Spills... 

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