CBE 4755
Transcript Abbreviation:
ChE Process Safety
Course Description:
Consideration of process safety concepts and application in the chemical process industry.
Course Levels:
Undergraduate (1000-5000 level)
Designation:
Required
General Education Course:
(N/A)
Cross-Listings:
(N/A)
Credit Hours (Minimum if “Range”selected):
2.00
Max Credit Hours:
2.00
Select if Repeatable:
Off
Maximum Repeatable Credits:
(N/A)
Total Completions Allowed:
(N/A)
Allow Multiple Enrollments in Term:
No
Course Length:
14 weeks (autumn or spring)
Off Campus:
Never
Campus Location:
Columbus
Instruction Modes:
In Person (75-100% campus; 0-24% online)
Prerequisites and Co-requisites:
Prereq: 3422 or 3521, and enrollment in CBE or EngPhysics major; or Grad standing; or permission of instructor.
Electronically Enforced:
No
Exclusions:
(N/A)
Course Goals / Objectives:
Become familiar with the process safety issues found in a chemical plant environment
Become familiar with the range of process safety ethical issues which commingle personal safety and environment protection with enterprise success
Understand the nature, causes and prevention of major loss events
Become familiar with process hazard analysis (PHA) methods and tools
Become familiar with government regulations related to process safety
Introduce consequence analysis methodology and worst-case estimation assumptions
Become knowledged in deciphering the anatomy of an incident through PHA and incident case studies
Understand the importance of process safety management
Check if concurrence sought:
No
Contact Hours:
| Topic | LEC | REC out-of-class | REC in-class | Weekly LAB out-of-class | Weekly LAB in-class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Process Safety Culture: introduction to process safety, code of engineering ethics, pillars of process safety management, tolerable vs acceptable risks, anatomy of an incident | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Chemical Hygiene and toxicology | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Consequence Analysis: source model, hazard material dispersion, flammability and explosions, chemical reactivity, and consequence prevent and mitigation strategies | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Process Hazard Identification and Analysis: introduction to methodologies including checklist, inherent safety review, failure model and effects analysis | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| what-if hazardous operation (HAZOP) analysis, guided-word HAZOP analysis, management of change, and pre-startup safety review | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Inductive and Deductive Risk Analysis: failure probability concepts, fault tree analysis, event tree analysis, layers of protection analysis and bow-tie concept | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Process safety incident case studies: runaway reactions (e.g. T2), dust explosions (e.g. AL Solutions, Inc.), inherent safety risk, layers of protection/swiss cheese analogy, direct and indirect consequence severity (e.g. Bhopal) | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| safeguard redundancy (e.g. utility such as Fukushima Daiichi), vapor cloud explosion and startup analysis (e.g. BP Texas City), anatomy of an incident and environmental impacts (e.g. Deepwater Horizon) | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Introduction to plant design specifications: components of a front end engineering design package including mechanical design and control specification, piping & instrumentation diagrams (P&ID) | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Pressure vessel and piping standardized mechanical design methodology and certification requirements, determination of maximum allowable working pressure and temperature (MAWP and MAWT) | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Total | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Grading Plan:
Letter Grade
Course Components:
Lecture
Grade Roster Component:
Lecture
Credit by Exam (EM):
No
Grades Breakdown:
| Aspect | Percent |
|---|---|
| No Grade Breakdown Entered. | |
Representative Textbooks and Other Course Materials:
| Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|
| “Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications,” 4th Edition | Crowl, Louvar |
ABET-CAC Criterion 3 Outcomes:
(N/A)
ABET-ETAC Criterion 3 Outcomes:
(N/A)
ABET-EAC Criterion 3 Outcomes:
| No outcome selected |
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