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Chemical Process Safety

Prof. Shishir Sinha · IIT Roorkee

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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

  1. Safety and Accident Loss Statistics YouTube
  2. Risk Management and Hazardous Substance Rules YouTube
  3. Nature of Accident and major disasters YouTube
  4. Fundamental Principles: Scale up and Runaway Reactions YouTube
  5. Problems related to Safety and Accident Loss Statistics YouTube

Week 2

  1. Toxicology: Introduction, Routes & Exposure YouTube
  2. Toxicology: Elimination, Responses, Treatment YouTube
  3. Dose Response Relationship YouTube
  4. Dose Response and Threshold Dose: Predictive models and Extrapolation YouTube
  5. Industrial Hygiene: Regulations and Identification YouTube

Week 3

  1. Material Safety Data Sheet I YouTube
  2. Material Safety Data Sheet II YouTube
  3. Industrial Hygiene: Evaluation YouTube
  4. Noise, vibration and Radiation YouTube
  5. Industrial Hygiene: Control YouTube

Week 4

  1. Problems related to Industrial Hygiene YouTube
  2. Introduction to Source Models YouTube
  3. Source Models for Gas YouTube
  4. Source Models for Pool Boiling YouTube
  5. Source Model Problems YouTube

Week 5

  1. Fire and Explosions: Introduction YouTube
  2. Fire and Explosion: Flammability Characteristics YouTube
  3. Explosion & its Classification I YouTube
  4. Explosion & its Classification II YouTube
  5. Fire Extinguishers I YouTube

Week 6

  1. Fire Extinguishers II YouTube
  2. Problems related to Fire and Explosion YouTube
  3. Designs to prevent Fire and Explosion: Inerting and Purging YouTube
  4. Designs to prevent Fire and Explosion: Static Electricity YouTube
  5. General Design Methods to prevent Fire YouTube

Week 7

  1. Sprinklers I YouTube
  2. Sprinklers II YouTube
  3. Introduction to Reliefs YouTube
  4. Type of Reliefs YouTube
  5. Relief Scenario YouTube

Week 8

  1. Relief Sizing YouTube
  2. Hazard & Hazard Identification: Introduction YouTube
  3. Hazard Identification Methods & HAZOP YouTube
  4. Safety Reviews & Risk Assessment I YouTube
  5. Risk Assessment II YouTube

Week 9

  1. Review of Probability Theory YouTube
  2. Event Trees: Quantitative Risk Analysis YouTube
  3. Fault Trees: Quantitative Risk Analysis YouTube
  4. Cause Consequence Analysis & Layer of Protection Analysis YouTube
  5. Bow-Tie Analysis YouTube

Week 10

  1. Accident Research: Introduction YouTube
  2. Accident Causation Theories YouTube
  3. Accident Investigation Procedure I YouTube
  4. Accident Investigation Procedure II YouTube
  5. Jaipur Terminal Fire, India: October 29, 2009. YouTube

Week 11

  1. The Flixborough UK, Cyclohexane Disaster: June 01, 1974 YouTube
  2. Seveso Accident: July 10, 1976 YouTube
  3. The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: April 26, 1986 YouTube
  4. Bhopal Gas Tragedy: December 03, 1984 YouTube
  5. Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Investigation YouTube

Week 12

  1. Nuclear Radiation YouTube
  2. Process Safety Management YouTube
  3. Personal Protective Equipments YouTube
  4. Safety: Laws & Regulations YouTube
  5. Nuclear Disaster: Earthquake YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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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
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