Faisal Khan

"***EDITOR'S PICK BY BOOKLIFE***. "A fast-paced, engagingly written debut." - BookLife, from Publisher's Weekly. "Hugely entertaining...wonderfully written.". This is the inside story of the first great crypto bubble. Billions of people have invested in crypto, hoping to get rich. But is it all about profit - or could this technology make the world a better place? That was the challenge Joe Lubin, an eccentric billionaire worth more than $30B at peak, posed to Faisal Khan across a cafe table in early 2017.

This real life story describes Khan's journey around the globe, pitching board rooms in New York and celebrities in Los Angeles about the magic of the blockchain. Meanwhile Lubin's experimental company soon veered off the rails as it fell victim to anarchy and greed. Learn how to make millions off crypto tokens, impress a venture capitalist with just a tweet, and convince a government to buy vaporware. Through ConsenSys' rise, Khan's story probes the zeitgeist of a time when young men with too much money and too much power worked to create a future they hadn't fully thought through.".

Dynamic Risk Analysis in the Chemical and Petroleum Industry focuses on bridging the gap between research and industry by responding to the following questions:. What are the most relevant developments of risk analysis?How can these studies help industry in the prevention of major accidents? Paltrinieri and Khan provide support for professionals who plan to improve risk analysis by introducing innovative techniques and exploiting the potential of data share and process technologies.

This concrete reference within an ever-growing variety of innovations will be most helpful to process safety managers, HSE managers, safety engineers and safety engineering students. This book is divided into four parts. The Introduction provides an overview of the state-of-the-art risk analysis methods and the most up-to-date popular definitions of accident scenarios. The second section on Dynamic Risk Analysis shows the dynamic evolution of risk analysis and covers Hazard Identification, Frequency Analysis, Consequence Analysis and Establishing the Risk Picture. The third section on Interaction with Parallel Disciplines illustrates the interaction between risk analysis and other disciplines from parallel fields, such as the nuclear, the economic and the financial sectors. The final section on Dynamic Risk Management addresses risk management, which may dynamically learn from itself and improve in a spiral process leading to a resilient system. Helps dynamic analysis and management of risk in chemical and process industryProvides industry examples and techniques to assist you with risk- based decision makingAddresses also the human, economic and reputational aspects composing the overall risk picture.