Risk Analysis and Management Syllabus for B.Tech 8th sem is covered here. This gives the details about credits, number of hours and other details along with reference books for the course.
The detailed syllabus for Risk Analysis and Management B.Tech (R13) eightsem is as follows
OBJECTIVES:
To impart knowledge on environmental risk assessment and risk management
UNIT I : INTRODUCTION [8 hours]
Sources of Environmental hazards- Types of Risk-Environmental, Safety and ecological risks- Risk assessment framework- Regulatory perspectives and requirements- Risk Analysis and Management – Social benefit Vs technological risks- Path to risk analysis- Perception of risk- Risk assessment in different disciplines.
UNIT II : ELEMENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT [9 hours]
Hazard identification and accounting – Properties, processes and parameters that control fate and transport of contaminants – – Dose Response Evaluation – Slope Factors- Dose Response calculations and Dose Conversion Factors – Risk Characterization and consequence determination- Estimation of carcinogenic and non carcinogenic risks to human health- – Exposure Assessment – Exposure Factors -Multimedia and multipathway exposure modeling of contaminant concentrations in air, water, soils and vegetation
UNIT III : TOOLS AND METHODS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT [10 hours]
HAZOP and FEMA methods- Cause failure analysis – Event tree and fault tree modeling and analysis – Vulnerability assessment – Uncertainty analysis – Methods in Ecological risk assessment – Probabilistic risk assessments- Radiation risk assessment- Data sources and evaluation.
[TOTAL: 45 PERIODS]
OUTCOMES: The students completing the course will have ability to
- carryout hazard identification and accounting, risk characterization and consequence determination, event tree and fault tree modeling and Probabilistic risk assessments.
- develop management plans including risk communication and emergency preparedness planning
- plan environmental risk assessment of industries and hazardous activities
TEXTBOOKS:
- Cutter, S.L., Environmental Risk and Hazards, Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1999.
- Kolluru Rao, Bartell Steven, Pitblado R and Stricoff, “Risk Assessment and Management Handbook”, McGraw Hill Inc., New York, 1996.
- Kofi Asante Duah, “Risk Assessment in Environmental management”, John Wiley and sons, Singapore, 1998.
REFERENCES:
- Kasperson, J.X. and Kasperson, R.E. and Kasperson,R.E., Global Environmental Risks, V.N.University Press, New York, 2003.
- Mark Burman, Risks and Decisions for Conservation and environmental
management,Cambridge University Press, 2005
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