Plant Safety and Risk Management detailed syllabus for Petroleum Engineering (PE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the PE 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 Petroleum Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit PE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to PE Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of plant safety and risk management is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
NEED FOR SAFETY IN INDUSTRIES 9
Importance & objectives of safety- Safety Programmes – components and realization; Potentialhazards – extreme operating conditions, toxic chemicals; safe handling
Unit II
PLANT SAFETY AND SAFETY REGULATION 9
Implementation of safety procedures – periodic inspection and replacement; Accidents -identification and prevention; Criteria for setting & layout of chemical plant, Factories Act and Safety Regulations.
Unit III
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Unit IV
SAFETY AUDIT 9
Objective of safety audit- Hazard identification safety audits, checklist, what if analysis, vulnerability models event tree analysis fault tree analysis, Hazan past accident analysis Fixborough-Mexico-Madras-Vizag Bopal analysis
Unit V
RISK ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES 9
Hazard & Operability (HAZOP) studies- Hazard Analysis (HAZAN)-Fault Tree Analysis Consequence Analysis.
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course students are expected to
- Understand the importance of safety and its objectives.
- Understand the implementation of safety and identification and prevention of Accidents.
- Know about the types of hazards, emergency plan and ISO standards for safety studies.
- Do the safety audit in plants.
- Do the risk analysis in industries using the various techniques.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Handley, W., “Industrial Safety Hand Book “, 2nd Edn., McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969.
- Heinrich, H.W. Dan Peterson, P.E. and Rood, N., “ Industrial Accident Prevention“, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1980.
- Taylor, J.R., Risk analysis for process plant, pipelines and transport, Chapman and Hall, London, 1994
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Petroleum Engineering 6th Sem, visit PE 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Petroleum Engineering results, visit Anna University PE all semester results direct link.