Layer of protection analysis : simplified process risk assessment.

• Corporate Author: American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Center for Chemical Process Safety.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, ©2001.
• Series: CCPS concept book.
• Subjects: Chemical plants > Risk assessment.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 1591244455; 9781591244455; 9780470935583; 0470935588; 9780470935590; 0470935596; 0816908117; 9780816908110
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages) : illustrations

Layer of protection analysis (LOPA) is a recently developed, simplified method of risk assessment that provides the much-needed middle ground between a qualitative process hazard analysis and a traditional, expensive quantitative risk analysis. Beginning with an identified accident scenario, LOPA us...