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Crises in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries
Loss Prevention and Disaster Management

Provides methods for making safer apparatus and investigating strategies for loss analysis and reduction in petrochemical industries

Mohammad Reza Rahimpour (Edited by), Babak Omidvar (Edited by), Nazanin Abrishami Shirazi (Edited by), Mohammad Amin Makarem (Edited by)

9780323951630, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 14 July 2023

450 pages
23.5 x 19 x 2.8 cm, 0.45 kg

Crises in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries: Loss Prevention and Disaster Management, Volume Two provides an overview of both natural and manmade disasters occurring in oil, gas and petrochemical industries and prepares special solutions based on their types. The book focuses on loss prevention and disaster management in petrochemical industries from different points-of-view. Sections review methods for making the apparatus safer and continue with discussions on the process of facing and managing disasters during the occurrence. Final sections cover loss and economic analysis after disasters and methods of reversibility are presented with case studies from around the world.

Section I: Basics in oil, gas and petrochemical industries

1. Introduction to safe design and standards

2. Instruments vulnerability and resiliency

3. Risk analysis and hazard probabilities

Section II: Pre-disaster strategies in oil, gas and petrochemical industries

4. Heat generation and exchange systems safety: Furnaces, heat exchangers, reformers, etc

5. Pressurizing and work generation systems: compressors, turbines, etc

6. Reaction mediums and apparatus safety: reactors, columns, etc

7. Separation and purification apparatus safety: separators, trays, towers etc

8. Storage systems safety: vessels, reservoirs, etc

9. Chemicals Transporting Systems Safety: Pumps, Pipelines, and Valves

10. Safety in controlling systems and apparatus

11. Resilient units design and plant construction against future crises

Section III: During and postdisaster strategies in oil, gas and petrochemical industries

12. Crisis Management and Decision Making

Section IV: Post-disaster management in oil, gas and petrochemical industries

13. Post-disasters issues and problems

14. Economic analysis of disasters

Section V: Disaster case studies

15. Disasters cases in oil industry

16. Disasters cases in gas industry

17. Effectiveness of Floating Roof Sealing System Insulation for Crude-Oil Storage Tanks: A Case Study of Lightning Strikes

18. Explosion and Fire Following Earthquake Risk Assessment of Gas Pipelines in Urban Areas

Subject Areas: Petroleum technology [THFP], Energy technology & engineering [TH], Chemical engineering [TDCB], Industrial chemistry [TDC]

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