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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 1
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
Černobyl - introductory case. Frequency of accidents. Kletz`s model of accident investigation. Safety. Industrial safety. System with hazards. Safety and inherently safer designs. Hazards. Realizations of hazards. Causations, initiation, failures. Passive hazards. Mechanical energy releases. Incident scenarios and hazards. Frequency of human errors. Hazard identification. HAZOP a FMEA techniques. Rapid risk ranking. Analysis of incident scenarios. Event tree technique. System analysis. Estimation of incident scenarios frequencies. Test of knowledge. Examination project assignment. Basic terminology in a consequence analysis. Transmission paths and attenuation. General principles. Atmosphere as a transmission path. Water as a transmission path. Soil as a transmission path. Barriers. Pressure energy action. Releases of dusts and liquids. Releases of liquefied gases or vapors, BLEVE scenario. Implosion. Releases of pressurized and liquefied gases. Thermal energy action. Mechanism of heat transmission. Releases of hot liquids and gases. Pool fire. Fireball. Releases of cold materials. Deflagration and detonation. General principles. Chemical energy action - unconfined deflagrations. Confined deflagrations. Harm to receptors. General principles. Injury and damage. Concept of dose. Relation between dose and harm. Harm to people. Harm to equipment and buildings. Harm to the environment from acute emissions. Colloquium of students - Process Safety Progress 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. 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. Acceptability of risks. Management role in loss prevention. Process safety management. Human factor. 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
C304 Industrial Process Safety

Assessment methods and criteria
Home assignment evaluation

written project
Recommended literature
  • CROWL D.A, LOUVAR J.F.:. Chemical process safety: Fundamentals with applications. Second Edition, 2002 Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J..
  • Ferjenčík M.:. Loss Prevention - Prevence ztrát. Učební texty, 2002, Univerzita Pardubice, KTTV.. Univerzita Pardubice, KTTV, 2002.
  • 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, 1993, Buterworth-Heinemann, Oxford.. Buterworth, 1993.
  • Lees F.P. Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, second edition 1996, Buterworth-Heinemann, Oxford.. Buterworth, 1980.
  • MARSHALL V. AND RUHEMANN S. Fundamentals of Process Safety, 2002, IChemE, Rugby. IChemE, Rugby, 2002.


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University of Pardubice, date of update: 29.06.2024 23:50. Data created for academic year 2016/2017