Thermal hazard evaluation of cyclohexanone peroxide synthesis
Based on the thermal runaway scenario, the criticality
class of this process under various reaction conditions was
calculated (Table 6) [13, 14]. The MTSR is listed in
Table 5. The reaction was conducted in an open system,
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