Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Source term
3. Fire accidents
4. Vapour cloud explosions
5. BLEVEs and vessel explosions
6. Dust explosions
7. Atmospheric dispersion of toxic or flammable clouds
8. Vulnerability
9. Determination of accident frequencies
10. Domino effect
11. Quantitative risk analysis
12. Transportation of hazardous materials

About the Author

Joaquim Casal is an Emeritus Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, with 35 years of experience in quantitative risk analysis. He has conducted accident analyses for legal cases, performed risk assessments for chemical companies, and researched major accidents. A visiting professor internationally, he has authored around 300 papers and three books, focusing on safety and risk analysis in process plants and hazardous material transportation. He founded the Centre for Studies on Technological Risk in 1992 and has held leadership roles at UPC and the Autonomous Government of Catalonia. He continues to teach risk analysis courses globally.