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Inherent safety
About: Inherent safety is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 632 publications have been published within this topic receiving 9490 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors give a general overview of factors that can cause a dust explosion and the means by which such an event can be prevented and mitigated. But, the authors do not consider the safety culture and a safety management system approach.
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01 Jan 1999
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual framework of an integrated inherent safety index (I2SI), which is composed of subindices which account for hazard potential, inherent safety potential, and add-on control requirements.
Abstract: Inherent safety is a proactive approach for loss prevention and risk management. Considering the lifetime costs of a process and its operation, an inherent safety approach can lead to a cost-optimal option. Inherent safety may be achieved at any stage of process design; however, its application at the early stages of process design yields the best results. Despite being an attractive and cost-effective approach, the inherent safety methodology is not widely used. Many reasons have been attributed to this lack of widespread use; the nonavailability of systematic tools for the application of inherent safety principles is perhaps the most important reason.
This paper presents a conceptual framework of an integrated inherent safety index (I2SI). It is called an integrated index because the procedure, when fully developed, is intended to consider the life cycle of the process with economic evaluation and hazard potential identification for each option. The I2SI is composed of subindices which account for hazard potential, inherent safety potential, and add-on control requirements. An application of the I2SI is also discussed. © 2004 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog 23: 136–148, 2004
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TL;DR: An integrated inherent safety index (I2SI) was presented at the 37th Annual Loss Prevention Symposium of the AIChE (2003) and published in Process Safety Progress (volume 23(2), 136-148, 2004) as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: This paper presents details of an integrated inherent safety index (I2SI) The conceptual framework of this index was presented at the 37th Annual Loss Prevention Symposium of the AIChE (2003) and published in Process Safety Progress (volume 23(2), 136–148, 2004) In addition to the framework, the current paper discusses additional features of the index such as the cost model and system design model, which were not presented or discussed earlier I2SI is called an integrated index because the procedure considers the life cycle of the process with economic evaluation and hazard potential identification for each option I2SI is comprised of sub-indices which account for hazard potential, inherent safety potential, and add-on control requirements In addition to evaluating these respective characteristics, there are also indices that measure the economic potential of the option To demonstrate the applicability and efficacy of I2SI, an application of the index to three acrylic acid production options is also discussed in the paper
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TL;DR: Self-Explaining Road (SER) is a traffic environment which elicits safe behavior simply by its design which reduces potential errors occurring in traffic by revising the layout of the road environment.
161 citations