Overview
- Presents an in-depth, comprehensive survey of gas-related safety problems and flammability theories
- Provides a detailed analysis for dilution and purge
- Develops the concepts of ignitability and explosibility to explain the process concept flammability
- Develops a systematic view on theoretical flammability diagrams in solving different engineering problems
- Provides analytical solutions to engineering problems, including dilution and purge, inertion and suppression, ignition and explosion
- Unifies various existing safety practices using fundamental principles
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
The book provides a systematic view on flammability and a collection of solved engineering problems in the fields of dilution and purge, mine gas safety, clean burning safety and gas suppression modeling.
For the first time, fundamental principles of energy conservation are used to develop theoretical flammability diagrams and are then explored to understand various safety-related mixing problems. This provides the basis for a fully-analytical solution to any flammability problem. Instead of the traditional view that flammability is a fundamental material property, here flammability is discovered to be a result of the explosibility of air and the ignitability of fuel, or a process property. By exploring the more fundamental concepts of explosibility and ignitability, the safety targets of dilution and purge can be better defined and utilized for guiding safe operations in process safety.
This book provides various engineering approaches to mixture flammability, benefiting not only the safety students, but also field operators, as a useful resource for the safe handling of flammable gases and liquids. It will be useful to anyone who worries about the ignition potential of a flammable mixture. Â
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ignitability and Explosibility of Gases and Vapors
Authors: Tingguang Ma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2665-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2664-0
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4953-3
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2665-7
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 213
Number of Illustrations: 106 b/w illustrations
Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Safety in Chemistry, Dangerous Goods, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Thermodynamics