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Historical overview of facility siting
Author(s) -
Grounds Cheryl,
Moosemiller Mike,
Thomas James Kelly
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
process safety progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1547-5913
pISSN - 1066-8527
DOI - 10.1002/prs.12185
Subject(s) - sophistication , term (time) , engineering , computer science , construction engineering , operations research , social science , physics , quantum mechanics , sociology
Over the years, the term “facility siting” has had many meanings, has been conducted for varying, but related purposes, and has been performed with ever‐increasing degrees of sophistication following the advancement in computing capabilities. This paper describes the history of facility siting in terms of the industry events, resulting regulations and standards, improvements in modeling techniques, and expansion of computing power that have driven the changes.