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Risk reduction in the design of chemical plants

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Risk Analysis and Reduction in the Chemical Process Industry

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There is a well-known proverb that says: ‘Prevention is better than cure’, and as already indicated in this book, the best way of preventing accidents of any type is by eliminating the possibility of them taking place. The reduction of risk should begin with the conception of a new process, designing intrinsically safe and easy to control plants.

But he suddenly remembered something that one of the ship’s designers had once said to him, when discussing ‘fail safe’ systems: ‘We can design a system that’s proof against accident and stupidity; but we can’t design one that’s proof against deliberate malice… Arthur C. Clarke, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Chapter XXVIII

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    J. M. Santamaría Ramiro

  2. Amylum Ibérica, S.A., Zaragoza, Spain

    P. A. Braña Aísa

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Santamaría Ramiro, J.M., Braña Aísa, P.A. (1998). Risk reduction in the design of chemical plants. In: Risk Analysis and Reduction in the Chemical Process Industry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4936-5_7

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