Process Safety Management detailed syllabus for Chemical Engineering (CE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the CE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Chemical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit CE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to CE Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of process safety management is as follows.
Unit I
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Unit II
SAFETY PROGRAMMES AND PROCEDURES 9
Need for safety in industries; Safety Programmes – components and realization; Potential hazards – extreme operating conditions, toxic chemicals; safe handling-Implementation of safety procedures – periodic inspection and replacement; Standard Operating Procedure – Overview and its importance, how to write effective operating procedure, Types of Procedures, Standard operating conditions and consequence of deviation; Emergency planning
Unit III
ACCIDENT ANALYSIS 9
Accidents – identification and prevention, promotion of industrial safety. Process Safety Incident reporting and Investigation – Element overview, reporting and its importance; Process safety incident classification, Root cause analysis, making recommendations ; Past accident analysis-Fixborough-Mexico- Chernobyl nuclear disaster-Bhopal gas analysis- process safety indicators
Unit IV
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Unit V
SAFETY MANAGEMENT 9
Employee Participation – Overview, Benefits of Employee participation, Various modes of engaging workforce in PSM, Challenges; Management of Change – Types of Changes, Managing Changes in PSM Perspective, Framework, evaluating changes-Institutionalizing and integrating safety into the PSM fabric, 5 tier approach, selection, training, Performance monitoring; Case studies – Process safety management in industry – present and futuristic approach.
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course, the students will be able to
- Understand the chemical process safety, safety codes
- safe handling of chemicals and plant inspection
- learn the different analysis to overcome the accidents in process industry
- understand the hazard analysis in process industry
- knowledge on safety management in different process industry
Text Books:
- Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications, Daniel A. Crowl, J.F. Louvar, Prantice Hall, NJ, 1990.
- Fawatt, H.H. and Wood, W.S., “Safety and Accident Prevention in Chemical Operation“, Wiley Interscience, 1965.
- Marcel, V.C., Major Chemical Hazard- Ellis Harwood Ltd., Chi Chester, UK, 1987.
- Hyatt, N., Guidelines for process hazards analysis, hazards identification & risk analysis, Dyadem Press, 2004
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