Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment detailed syllabus for Safety & Fire Engineering (SFE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the SFE 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 Safety & Fire Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit SFE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to SFE Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of hazard analysis and risk assessment is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
HAZARD IDENTIFICATION AND RISK ANALYSIS 9
Hazard and risk, Types of hazards – fire, explosion and toxic gas release, Structure of hazard identification and risk assessment. Identification of hazards : Inventory analysis, Fire and explosionhazard rating of process plants – Preliminary hazard analysis, Hazard and Operability study (HAZOP),Case studies.
Unit II
RISK CONTROL & MANAGEMENT 9
Plant availability and process reliability: ways of improving plant availability, MTBF and MTTF, thereliability function, failure rate, bathtub curve, probability relationships, simple reliability estimation.The logic tree approach, set theory and Boolean algebra, application to probability, Boolean manipulation.Event tree analysis – notation.Failure mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) -methodology, criticality analysis, corrective action and follow-up.
Unit III
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Unit IV
HAZARDS MONITORING AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 9
Quantification of risk: QRA, Vulnerability analysis, accepted and imposed risk, perception of risk, risk indices, individual risk and societal risk, acceptance criteria for risk, ALARP, Presentation of measures of risk – risk contour, F-N curve. Calculation of individual risk and societal risk. Human reliability analysis (HRA) factors leading to human error, characteristics of HRA techniques, Technique for Human Error Rate Prediction (THERP),Accident Sequence Evaluation Program (ASEP).
Unit V
DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN INDIA AND RELIEF 9
History of disasters – various disasters in various countries – Disasters in India Relief and rehabilitation in disasters at local, national and global levels, Gaps in disaster management identified on analysis Worldwide Aid and Agencies, Study of different case studies on natural disaster & manmade disaster
Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course the student would be able to:
- Attain the ability to use the hazard indices, HAZOP, PHA and What if analysis for the identification of hazards in a process
- Attain the ability to assess probability of occurrence of an event using fault tree and event tree analysis
- Estimate the consequences of fire, explosion and toxic gas release using suitable empirical models
- Quantify the risk involved in a process
- Identify various Hazards related to the work practices and activity using various technique.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- AIChE/CCPS.”Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures”.(Second edition). Centre for Chemical Process Safety, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, 1992.
- AIChE/CCPS.”Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis”. (Second edition). Centre for Chemical Process Safety, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York,2000.
- Sam Mannan (Editor).”Lee’s Loss Prevention in the Process Industries”.(Fourth edition), Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., UK,2012.
- Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, National Disaster Management Division,Disaster Management in India – A Status Report,2004
- National Policy on Disaster Management, NDMA, Government of India,2009
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Safety & Fire Engineering 5th Sem, visit SFE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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