CCPS Process Safety Glossary
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A coherent fault tree uses only "AND" and "OR" gates to represent the... Read More... |
Capable of burning. |
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The technique of maintaining the concentration of combustible material in a... Read More... |
(see also “Powder”). Any finely divided solid material, 425 mm or less in... Read More... |
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A term used to classify certain liquids that will burn on the basis of flash... Read More... |
Any liquid that has a closed-cup flash point at or above 100ºF (37.8ºC), as... Read More... |
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A chemical process of oxidation that occurs at a rate fast enough to produce... Read More... |
Exothermic chemical reaction with oxygen as a primary reagent. (CCPS, 1996... Read More... |
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A device that is manufactured by a consistent production method and has... Read More... |
The failure of more than one component, item, or system due to the same... Read More... |
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Failure, which is the result of one or more events, causing coincident... Read More... |
An event having a single external cause with multiple failure effects which... Read More... |
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The ability of materials to exist in contact without specified (usually... Read More... |
An equipment part. |
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Any Device, unit , or Application Program which is a part of an Automated... Read More... |
See Equipment boundary. |
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One member of the roster of methods that collectively form the complete... Read More... |
A class of models that can simulate very highly resolved three-dimensional... Read More... |
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Dispersion models that treat the partial differential Navier–Stokes... Read More... |
Equipment composed of hardware (H/W) and software (S/W) that performs basic... Read More... |
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Includes various types of computers (e.g., mini and micro), programmable... Read More... |
A computer code developed by SAIC to: aggregate data sets into a single... Read More... |
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The relative amount of a substance when combined or mixed with other... Read More... |
The initial design of a project when basic parameters are known but design... Read More... |
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The upper and lower endpoints of a confidence interval. |
An explosion that occurs when the material is present in the form of a... Read More... |
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Probability of occurrence given that a precursor even has occurred. |
Having a conductivity greater than 104 pS/m or a resistivity less than 108 W... Read More... |
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Having an average resistance between 2.5 ¥ 103 W and 1¥106Was measured using... Read More... |
Having an electrical resistance less than 103 W per meter of hose length... Read More... |
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The reciprocal of resistivity expressed as Siemens per meter or more usually... Read More... |
See “Bulking Brush Discharge.” |
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A statistical measure of uncertainty. |
The end points of a confidence interval. |
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That portion of a distribution which is expected to contain the mean value a... Read More... |
The probability that an assertion made about a statistical property of a... Read More... |