Reviews for Safe Use of Chemicals: A Practical Guide

The average rating for Safe Use of Chemicals: A Practical Guide based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-08-13 00:00:00 Jeremy Wittig TODO full review of the core chapters: +/- Pragmatic design process, focusing on a known, comprehensive set of components, governed by known, comprehensive laws of chemistry. ++ Interestingly, the design process is further limited by practice: (i) only a limited set of types of chemical products need to be produced, and the industry is dominated by chemical products that are sold largely undifferentiated; (ii) most designs are validated only in simulation before production, and the validation depends on the cost of the software package used to simulate (expensive licenses) and the quality of the (often proprietary) data used to seed and calibrate the models; (iii) plants are designed either from "irreducible structures" or reduced from "superstructures" (with redundancies); (iv) building new plants is likely rare, and retrofitting plants is the major concern for designers. --- A shallow primer on the economics of plant production and operation. - A long list of concerns, by component, each focusing on an important chemical process. -- Insufficient material on clean process technologies. -- Insufficient material on safety. There exist risk models in this world...

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-02 00:00:00 Joseph Tapia This book is very good