Industrial & Processes Safety Engineering

This course covers the essential aspects of industrial and process safety engineering in a practical and comprehensive manner. It provides students with an understanding of industrial and process safety hazards in a variety of industrial settings including manufacturing, industrial hazmat zones, refining and petrochemical industries, mining operations, extreme industrial process hazards and the list goes on. The course will highlight the frameworks on how to manage these industrial processes in a reliable and professional manner. It covers the most important concepts: static electricity risks, processing of intensity of thermal radiation, thermodynamics of fluid phase equilibria, boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE), emission source models, hazard identification methods, risk control and methods for achieving manufacturing excellence while also focusing on safety. Extensive case studies including but not limited to i) Fundamentals, methods, and procedures for the industrial practice of process safety engineering, ii) The thermodynamic fundamentals and computational methods for release rates from ruptures in pipelines, vessels, and relief valves, iii) Fundamentals of static electricity hazards and their mitigation, iv) Quantitative assessment of fires and explosions, v) Principles of dispersion calculations for toxic or flammable gases and vapors, vi) Methods of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment and control

Course ID: SAFEN 601