Course: Safety Engineering I

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Course title Safety Engineering I
Course code UENM/C860
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory, Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Janovský Břetislav, doc. Ing. Dr.
  • Ferjenčík Miloš, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Seveso and Chernobyl - introductory cases. Kletz`s model of accident investigation. Safety and inherently safer designs. 2. Hazards. Realizations of hazards. Incident scenarios and hazards. Human factor. Frequency of human errors. Rapid risk ranking. 3. Hazard identification. HAZOP a FMEA techniques. System analysis. Fault tree analysis. 4. Analysis of incident scenarios. Event tree technique. Estimation of incident scenarios frequencies. 5. Test of knowledge. Examination project assignment. Basic terminology in a consequence analysis. Harm to receptors. General principles. Injury and damage. Concept of dose. Relation between dose and harm. Harm to people. Harm to equipment and buildings. 6. Dispersions. Bhopal. Transmission paths and attenuation. General principles. Atmosphere as a transmission path. 7. Burning and fires. Piper Alpha. Thermal energy action. Mechanism of heat transmission. Releases of hot liquids and gases. Pool fire. Fireball. Boilover. Flash fire. BLEVE. 8. Explosions. Flixborough. Deflagration and detonation. General principles. Chemical energy action - unconfined deflagrations. Confined deflagrations. 9. Source term. Releases. Evaporation. Complex examples. 10. Colloquium of students - Process Safety Progress 11. Chemical reactors. Chemical energy releases. General principles. Classification of chemical reactions according to emission of energy. Runaway reactions. Adiabatic temperature rise Tad, process classification according to Tad. Kinetic aspects of exothermic process safety. 12. Hazards characterization and evaluation. Risk analysis - terms and concepts. Risk analysis procedures. Quantitative risk analysis. Control of process hazards. Tactics and strategy in hazard control. 13. Acceptability of risks. Management role in loss prevention. Process safety management. Risk acceptability. Legislation role. European directive SEVESO 2, American PSM, laws of Czech Republic.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
Learning outcomes
Introduce basic terms, ideas and techniques for loss prevention in industry. Inform about risk analysis and estimations in industrial installations and about tools and techniques which are applied within risk analysis.
Graduate understands basics of risk analysis and knows principles, how they are applied in order to increase effectivity of industrial safety management systems. He/she is prepared to take part in risk analysis and in relevant improvement of safety management systems.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Home assignment evaluation

written project
Recommended literature
  • články z časopisu Process Safety Progress. .
  • Crowl D.A, Louvar J.F.:. Chemical process safety: Fundamentals with applications, third edition. Boston, 2011.
  • Ferjenčík M.:. Soubor prezentací v MSPower Pointu k předmětu Bezpečnostní inženýrství 1 - 7 výukových témat. (je k dispozici na intranetu University Pardubice v programu STAG v době výuky předmětu)..
  • JANOVSKÝ B.:. Soubor prezentací v power pointu k předmětu Bezpečnostní inženýrství 1 - 6 výukových témat..
  • KLETZ T. Learning from Accidents, third edition.. Gulf Professional Publishing, 2001.
  • MARSHALL V. AND RUHEMANN S. Fundamentals of Process Safety, 2002, IChemE, Rugby. IChemE: Rugby, 2002.


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