Guidelines for Process Equipment Reliability Data, with Data Tables

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John Wiley & Sons, Sep 16, 2010 - Technology & Engineering - 328 pages
The book supplements Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis by providing the failure rate data needed to perform a chemical process quantitative risk analysis.
 

Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Equipment Failure Rate Data
7
3 CCPS Taxonomy
17
4 Data Bases Sources and Studies
27
5 CCPS Generic Failure Rate Data Base
127
6 Collection and Conversion of PlantSpecific Data
213
7 Failure Rate Data Transfer
233
8 Supplemental References
235
APPENDIX A CCPS Generic Failure Rate Data Base Taxonomy
239
APPENDIX B Equipment Index
281
APPENDIX C Matrix of Data Elements in Data Resources
291
APPENDIX D Unreviewed Data Bases Data Sources and Studies
303
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The CENTER FOR CHEMICAL PROCESS SAFETY (CCPS), an industry technology alliance of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), has been a world leader in developing and disseminatinginformation on process safety management and technology since 1985. CCPS has published over 80 books in its process safety guidelines and process safety concepts series. For more information, visit www.ccpsonline.org.

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