Hydrocarbon Process Safety

The book is advertised as a text for students and professionals and like other books by the same author, it is based on his teaching material, largely at the level of an M.Sc. course in a Scottish university. It assumes little prior knowledge of the subject and hence is useful to a very wide group of users. The book covers virtually all aspects of hydrocarbon safety in a total of 12 chapters and is well provided with numerical examples and useful appendices. In attempting to cover a very wide range of topics in a single volume the treatment of some topics is, of necessity, rather brief, although good references are usually given. Each chapter is backed up by a large number of examples (with full solutions in the appendix) for the student to try. A general weakness is the use of a number of nonstandard symbols, which could be misleading on cursory reading, for example, the use of a rather than p for density. There is also some confusion in places between kg moles and gm moles, so that a student trained in chemical engineering could find difficulty.