1: Overview
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- 1.4: Failures in Process Control- Bhopal, Three Mile Island
- Process controls can have a huge impact on surrounding communities, as well as the environment. An engineer of a large-scale process, therefore, has an important ethical responsibility to operate a process safely and properly. These responsibilities extend well beyond the scope of merely the company for which they work. Catastrophic failures in process control remind us of the importance of control systems and engineering in today's world.