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Objectives
During the course the participants will have the opportunity
- to get familiar with risk aspects and methods for hazard identification applied in petrochemical industries
- to learn how to perform probability and consequences analysis and risk assessment
- to recognize what are the health, safety and environment issues related to petrochemical industries
Target Attendees / Participants
Engineers, managers at all levels, inspectors, legislators and other professionals dealing with risk and safety in petrochemical industry as well as students, will profit from the course by
- increasing their understanding of strengths and weaknesses of different approaches and
- extending their knowledge on current risk based approaches for petrochemical plants.
Course Content by Units
Unit 1: Risks aspects in petrochemical industry
- overview
- links to the applied methods, standards and codes
- HSE (Health, Safety, Environment) analyses and studies as a support to design and operation
Unit 2: Brief introduction to "Risk"
- origin, measure
- the "Risk Analysis" document
Unit 3: Hazard identification in petrochemical industry
- HAZOP analysis
- Brief examples of application
Unit 4: Probability Analysis
- Calculation of probability
- Elementary probability theory
- Fault Tree Analysis technique
Unit 5: Workshop - Application of Fault Tree Analysis
- identification of accident sequences
- calculation of probability of an accident
- ranking of sequences
Unit 6: The assessment of consequences of accidents
- „Source Term“ – Identification of release cases
- Evolution of a release: accident scenarios and Event Tree analysis
- Models for assessment of fires, dispersion, explosion
- Brief workshop - analysis of a typical accident by computer modeling
Unit 7: Assessment of risk
- Models to assess the vulnerability of people and equipment
- Qualitative and Quantitative risk criteria
Unit 8: Health, safety, environment issues
- environment impacts
- accident prevention
- implementation of HSE management system,
- regulatory expectations
Unit 9: Review of the course main issues and preparation for final exam
Unit 10: Exam
Teaching Methods
The course includes:
- ex cathedra lecturing
- number of examples illustrating important topics
- hands-on breakout sessions
Literature
[1] AICHE/CCPS (2000), "Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis-GCPQRA", 2nd Edition
[2] J. R. Taylor, 1994, "Risk Analysis for Process Plant, Pipelines and Transport”
[3] P.A.M. Uijt de Haag / B.J.M. Ale 2005, Guideline for quantitative risk assessment (Purple Book), Director-General of Labour, Committee for the Prevention of Disasters
[4] Vesely, W. E.; et. al. (1981). Fault Tree Handbook. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. NUREG–0492
[5] Ir. C.J.H. van den Bosch (2005): Methods for the Calculation of Physical Effects: Resulting from Releases of Hazardous Materials (Yellow Book), Director-General of Labour, Committee for the Prevention of Disasters
[6] AIChE/CCPS “Guidelines for consequence Analysis of Chemical releases”, 1999
[7] EPSC, IChemE and Chemical Industries Association, 2000, "HAZOP – Guide to Best practice for the process and chemical industries"
[8] G A Papadakis, A Amendola (ed.) - “Guidance on the Preparation of a Safety Report to meet the requirements of council Directive 96/82/EC (Seveso II)”– JRC – European commission Report ER 17690 EN, 1997
[9] I A Papazoglou, Z S Nivolianitou, G S Bonanos - “Land Use planning Policies stemming from the implementation of the SEVSO-II Directrive in the EU” - Journal of Hazardous materials, Vol 61, August 1998
[10] Barbara Pozzo, “The Implemetnation of the Seveso Directive in an Enlarged Europe: a look into the Past adna a Challenge for the future” – Kluwer Law International, 2009
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