CCPS Process Safety Glossary
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A flame arrester element that is manufactured of alternate layers of thin... Read More... |
Relates to major environment or safety process risks. |
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An alarm having no automatic safety backup system and requiring immediate... Read More... |
See Quenching Diameter |
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Equipment, instrumentation, controls, or systems whose malfunction or... Read More... |
Final control element associated with an emergency shutdown system. |
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An estimation of the half thickness of a sample in an unstirred container,... Read More... |
A final element whose operation has safety implications. |
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Minimum mass that is required to enable the occurrence of an explosion. |
G24ensor whose oepration has safety implications. |
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Any circuit that contains critical protective devices and/or critical... Read More... |
Any protection device whose installation and performance is required in... Read More... |
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Those instruments installed as part of a protection circuit whose... Read More... |
Maximum cooling temperature at which all heat is generated by the mass of... Read More... |
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Mixing chemicals unintentionally, typically through the use of the same... Read More... |
A list showing all the locations in a PES Program at which a selected list... Read More... |
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A refrigerated liquid gas having a boiling point below –130 F (-90 C) at... Read More... |
A method of controlling multiaccess computer networks in which each station... Read More... |
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Critical Steady-State Temperature; The highest ambient temperature at which... Read More... |
Continuous-flow Stirred Tank Reactor; A tank reactor characterized by a... Read More... |
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The rate of transfer of electricity normally expressed in Amperes (Coulombs... Read More... |
The current (Amperes) passing through unit area of a material (square... Read More... |
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The act of receiving current. |
The act of supplying current. |
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Construction of equipment (building) with weak sections to limit the damage... Read More... |
A representation of facts, concepts or instructions in a formalized manner... Read More... |
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1) A repository for equipment reliability information categorized to... Read More... |
A unique compartment of the taxonomy in which data is stored, defined by... Read More... |
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The equipment that provides the functions required to establish, maintain,... Read More... |
The basic items which form a data set or data vector, e.g. component name,... Read More... |
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The assignment of codes and identifiers to data extracted from plant records... Read More... |
A numerical estimate of equipment reliability as a mean or median value of a... Read More... |
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A data base, report, technical paper, journal article, or conversation which... Read More... |
A formal or informal collection of information with a cohesive element which... Read More... |
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Descriptive text in a given subject area whose primary purpose is to discuss... Read More... |
Equipment consisting of digital and instruments that convert the user... Read More... |