Thermal Safety of Chemical Processes

Professor Francis Stoessel is Head of Chemical Process Safety Consulting in the Swissi Process Safety GmbH. After graduating in Chemical Engineering from the Université de Haute Alsace, he spent most of his career working for Ciba-Geigy in their Chemical Engineering Department. He was Head of the Thermal Safety Department at Ciba, later of Process Safety Consulting at Novartis. He then took up a professorship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne. Prof. Stoessel has received awards from the Swiss Expert Commission for Safety in the Chemical Industry and the Swiss Society for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry.

Part I General Aspects of Thermal Process Safety
1. Introduction to Risk Analysis of Fine Chemical Processes
2. Fundamentals of Thermal Process Safety
3. Assessment of Thermal Risks
4. Experimental Techniques
5. Assessment of the Energy Potential

Part II Mastering Exothermal Reactions
6. General Aspects of Reactor Safety
7. Batch Reactors
8. Semi-Batch Reactors
9. Continuous Reactors

Part III Avoiding Secondary Reactions
10. Thermal Stability
11. Autocatalytic Reactions
12. Heat Accumulation
13. Physical Unit Operations

Part IV Technical Aspects of Risk Reduction
14. Heating and Cooling Industrial Reactors
15. Risk Reducing Measures
16. Emergency Pressure Relief
17. Reliability of Risk Reducing Measures
18. Development of Safe Processes