Chemical Process Safety

By Dr. Shishir Sinha | IIT Roorkee

Learners enrolled: 2052

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

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Chemical Engineering
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	29 Jul 2019
End Date :	18 Oct 2019
Exam Date :	17 Nov 2019 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to Process safety, Accidents and Loss statistics

Week 2: Toxicological Studies

Week 3: Fire and Explosion

Week 4: Prevention of Fire and Explosion

Week 5: Source model and dispersion

Week 6: Relief and relief Sizing

Week 7: Hazard Identification, HAZOP analysis

Week 8: Risk Assessment

Week 9: QRA and LOPA

Week 10: Process of Accident Investigation

Week 11: Reliability Engineering

Week 12: Economics of loss prevention

Books and references

1. Crowl D.A. and Louvar J.F., Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals With Applications.

2. Lees F.P. Lee’s Loss Prevention in Process industries: Hazard Identification, Assessment and control

3. Kletz T, What Went Wrong? Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters: How They Could Have Been Avoided

Instructor bio

Dr. Shishir Sinha is presently working as Professor and Head in the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Roorkee. He has been teaching the courses related to Process Utilities and Safety, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics and safe Operation to Petroleum industries to undergraduate and postgraduate students for more than 12 years.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 17th November 2019 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100
Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75.

If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.
Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies are being discontinued from July 2019 semester and will not be dispatched

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