Module Notes
Process Health and Safety
This module will not be offered for this semester
Module Details
Ability to use basic knowledge to avoid risk
Ability to apply experimental and computing methodology, data analysis and interpretation to predict risk and avoid leakages, explosions etc.
Knowledge of chemical engineering principles and their technological applications
Ability to design and assess safe chemical processes including the use of process simulation software
Ability to function professionally and behave ethically, taking into account social, environmental and health and safety issues
Ability to cooperate with multidisciplinary teams
Ability to prepare and present projects
Meaning of risk- hazardousness
Risk identification methods
Frequency of potential risks occurrence
Human factor
Pressurized gas leakage
Liquid leakage
Two-phase vapor-liquid mist
Fires
Explosions gas cloud
Bleve Explosions
Toxic cloud dispersion
Causes of equipment destruction
Ignition
Teaching Organization
LECTURES: 3 h/w
PROJECT/HOMEWORK: 1/semester
Total Module Workload (ECTS Standards):
Written examination counts for 60% while the project counts for 40% of the final grade
1. Μ.Ι. Ασσαέλ, Κ.Ε. Κακοσίμος, Ανάλυση Επικινδυνότητας, Εκδ. Τζιόλα, 2008. ISBN: 976-960-418-148-3
2. R.E. Sanders, Chemical process safety, Elsevier, eBook ISBN: 075067749X