(219b) Using AIChE's Concept Warehouse to Help Teach Process Safety-Related Engineering Science
AIChE Annual Meeting
2017
2017 Annual Meeting
Education Division
Free Forum on Engineering Education: Junior and Senior Years II
Monday, October 30, 2017 - 3:33pm to 3:51pm
The focus of this presentation is to describe a potential use for the Concept Warehouse when discussing the engineering design of equipment specifically being used to help reduce process safety risks. By integrating the key concepts for these engineering controls within the context of effective process safety systems, sets of warehouse âpallets of informationâ can be created and used. The background for developing these pallets includes our AIChE Code of Ethics, which states first that we âhold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public and protect the environment in performance of [our] professional duties.â Thus, it is essential that everyone handling hazardous materials manage them safely to protect people from the materialâs harmful properties, such as their toxicity, flammability, explosivity and/or reactivity.
In addition, recent developments for effectively managing process safety programs have focused on three essential foundations: safety culture and leadership, process safety systems, and operational discipline. This presentation will describe the key concepts for each of these foundations, the key concepts of the eight process safety systems required to effectively manage the process safety risks, and then provide some specific engineering design concept-related examples that are discussed in a process safety course or the senior design class. The engineering designs include preventive and mitigative controls, from the equipmentâs inherently safer design to the engineering controls, such as pressure relief systems, which are used to help reduce the risks. The concepts behind the design and management of these engineering controls are essential for students, helping them understand and successfully manage their future process safety risks once they graduate.
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