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Identifications of Hazards: Some Practical Examples

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In actual practice, the plant engineers shall carefully study the PFD for their own new projects (or existing plants if expansion/diversification is being planned) and find out potential sources of hazards (HAZID), probabilities of occurrence of harmful events, and their likely consequences such as injuries to persons, environmental pollution, damage to plant equipments, and loss of production.

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Golwalkar, K.R. (2016). Identifications of Hazards: Some Practical Examples. In: Production Management of Chemical Industries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28253-4_17

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