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Chemical Process Safety
Prof. Shishir Sinha · IIT Roorkee
About
As chemical process technology becomes more complex, chemical engineers will need a more detailed and fundamental understanding of safety. The course focuses on understanding the important technical fundamentals of chemical process safety. The emphasis on the fundamentals will help the student to understand the concepts and apply them accordingly. This application requires a significant quantity of fundamental knowledge and technology.
INTENDED AUDIENCE : All Chemical Engineering students
PREREQUISITES : Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Chemical Technology
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Useful for all process industries, refineries, fertilizer plants, petrochemical plants specially for managers and decision makers
Lectures
Week 1
- Safety and Accident Loss Statistics
- Risk Management and Hazardous Substance Rules
- Nature of Accident and major disasters
- Fundamental Principles: Scale up and Runaway Reactions
- Problems related to Safety and Accident Loss Statistics
Week 2
- Toxicology: Introduction, Routes & Exposure
- Toxicology: Elimination, Responses, Treatment
- Dose Response Relationship
- Dose Response and Threshold Dose: Predictive models and Extrapolation
- Industrial Hygiene: Regulations and Identification
Week 3
- Material Safety Data Sheet I
- Material Safety Data Sheet II
- Industrial Hygiene: Evaluation
- Noise, vibration and Radiation
- Industrial Hygiene: Control
Week 4
- Problems related to Industrial Hygiene
- Introduction to Source Models
- Source Models for Gas
- Source Models for Pool Boiling
- Source Model Problems
Week 5
- Fire and Explosions: Introduction
- Fire and Explosion: Flammability Characteristics
- Explosion & its Classification I
- Explosion & its Classification II
- Fire Extinguishers I
Week 6
- Fire Extinguishers II
- Problems related to Fire and Explosion
- Designs to prevent Fire and Explosion: Inerting and Purging
- Designs to prevent Fire and Explosion: Static Electricity
- General Design Methods to prevent Fire
Week 7
Week 8
- Relief Sizing
- Hazard & Hazard Identification: Introduction
- Hazard Identification Methods & HAZOP
- Safety Reviews & Risk Assessment I
- Risk Assessment II
Week 9
- Review of Probability Theory
- Event Trees: Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Fault Trees: Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Cause Consequence Analysis & Layer of Protection Analysis
- Bow-Tie Analysis
Week 10
- Accident Research: Introduction
- Accident Causation Theories
- Accident Investigation Procedure I
- Accident Investigation Procedure II
- Jaipur Terminal Fire, India: October 29, 2009.
Week 11
- The Flixborough UK, Cyclohexane Disaster: June 01, 1974
- Seveso Accident: July 10, 1976
- The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: April 26, 1986
- Bhopal Gas Tragedy: December 03, 1984
- Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Investigation
Week 12
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Roorkee
- Department
- Chemical Engineering
- Teacher
- Prof. Shishir Sinha
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Chemistry, Engineering
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
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