(551b) A Process Safety Framework for Learning Process Safety

It is important to introduce students to the fundamentals of process safety and to show how calculations in process safety technology could be applied to improve safety in order to prepare students for future careers in industry, as process engineers, and academia, as instructors. When process safety is not considered there have been serious consequences to people and the environment along with significant economic losses. Incidents such as Bhopal, T2 and the 2020 Beirut explosion have continued to remind chemical engineers the cost of not designing with process safety in mind. For students, a framework is needed to help them design and evaluate processes. Therefore a process safety framework has been designed to help students organize information and enable them to identify the tools and techniques they need to create an inherently safer design and reduce the risks associated with chemical engineering processes. This new framework along with an example of a 100-gallon general purpose batch vessel will be presented to show how the framework is applied in a realistic industrial environment. All of this information will be published in the 5th Edition of Chemical Process Safety, Fundamentals with Applications.