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AUGS/ AGSR Division
Date: 07.01.2019
In addition to part I (General Handout for all courses appended to the Time table) this portion gives further
specific details regarding the course.
Course No : CHE F413
Course Title : Process Plant Safety
Instructor-in-Charge : AMIT JAIN
1. Course Description:
Role of safety in society; Engineering aspects of process plant safety; Chemical hazards and worker safety;
Hazardous properties of chemicals; Safety aspects in site selection and plant layout; Design and inspection
of pressure vessels; Storage, handling and transportation of hazardous chemicals; Risk assessment methods;
Toxic release; Fire and Explosions; Safety audit; Emergency planning and disaster management; Case
studies.
2. Scope and Objective of the Course:
This course deals with various safety aspects encountered in the chemical process industries.
The primary objective of this course is teach important technical fundamentals for proper assessment of
the risks posed by hazardous chemicals and continuous care during their manufacturing, processing,
treatment, packaging, storage, transportation, use and sale.
We will apply the concepts and principles learned in the course to analyze numerous cases of ‘real
world’ chemical process incidents/accidents.
This course provides guidance for developing industrial safety procedures and equipment designs.
3. Text Book:
T1 Crowl D.A., and J.F. Louvar, “Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications”, Prentice
Hall PTR, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 3rd ed., 2012.
4. Reference Books:
R1 Trevor Kletz, “What went wrong? Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters”, 4 th edition, Gulf
Professional Publishing, 1999.
R2 Sanders R.E., “Chemical Process Safety: Learning from case Histories”, Butterworth-Heinemann,
Boston, 1999.
R3 Carson, P. and C. Mumford, "Hazardous Chemicals Handbook", Butterworth-Heinemann, Woburn,
2002.
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5. Course Plan:
Module Lecture Session Reference Learning Outcomes
1. Introduction L1.1 Introduction to safety in process 1.1 - 1.2, 1.8 Understand the
to chemical plant; Recent and historical cases of (T1) Examples importance of safety
process safety process accidents; from R1, R2 standards in chemical
and news
process industries.
articles.
Internalize the
L.1.2 Role of safety programs in professional ethics and
industry;Safety audits procedures and standards in chemical
steps, Engineering ethics and professional industry.
standards;
4. Source L4.1 Introduction to source models; Flow 4.1-4.3 (T1); Understand various
models of liquid through a hole; Flow of liquid Read Cases aspects of source
through a hole in a tank from : 13.1- models and cause of
13.2 (R1); accidents.
Chapter 2 (R2) Develop source models
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L4.2 Flow of liquid through pipes; Pipe 4.4 (T1); forhazardous situations
failures 9.1 (R1) such as flowing liquid,
gas/vapor through
L4.3 Flow of gases or vapors through 4.5 (T1) holes from tanks, and
holes in pipes.
L4.4 Flow of gases or vapors through 4.6 (T1); Identify the causes of
pipes; Pipe failures 9.1 (R1) pipe and tank failures,
and methods to
L4.5 Flash liquids; liquid pool mitigate those failures.
evaporation or boiling; Realistic and
worst-case releases; conservative analysis
4.7-4.10 (T1)
L4.6 Review and discussion of source
models
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9. L9.1 Relief concepts and Definitions; 9.1-9.4 (T1) Understand the concepts
Introduction to Location of reliefs; Relief types and of pressure relief systems
reliefs characteristics and their installation and
design criteria to prevent
L9.2 Relief scenarios; Data for reliefs 9.5-9.7 (T1)
or mitigate hazards
sizing; Relief systems
10. L10.1 Hazards Checklists, Hazard 11.1-11.2 (T1) Understand the methods
Hazard Surveys; Fire & Explosion Index, of hazard identification
Identification using checklists and
L10.2 Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) 11.3-11.5 (T1)
surveys.
studies; Safety Reviews; Other methods
Understand the HAZOP
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11. L11.1-11.2 Review of Probability Theory: 12.1 (T1) Review the probability
Risk Interactions between Process Units, mathematics and its
assessment Revealed and Unrevealed Failures, use in safety
Probability of Coincidence, Redundancy, Understand two
Common Mode Failures probabilistic methods:
event trees and fault
L11.3 Event Trees: Theory and analysis, 12.2 (T1)
trees
examples
Understand the
L11.4-11.5 Fault trees: Theory& 12.3 (T1) concepts of QRA and
quantitative analysis LOPA
13. Emergency L.13.1 Steps involved in disaster Open literature Understanding the
planning and management & handling emergencies & research handling of
disaster planning articles emergencies.
management Designing systems for
managing disasters.
14. L.14.1-14.2 Static electricity, Chemical 14.1 -14.4 Study major accidents
Case histories reactivity, System designs, procedures, (T1), cases and case histories, apply
and Major List of Major accidents (1970-1998) studies from knowledge gained from
accidents reference R1 the course to analyze
the cases.
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6. Evaluation Scheme:
Duration Date & Nature of component
Component Weightage (%)
(Minutes) Time (Close Book/ Open Book)
Assignments (3) One week 15% In class Take Home/OB
Project: Recent application
20 15% In class Take Home/OB
/field advancement
15/3 9:00
Mid-Semester Test 90 30% - 10:30 CB
AM
Comprehensive Exam 180 40% 10/5 FN CB
Instructor-in-charge
Course No. CHE F413