Mission of the lab
To develop and dissipate knowledge of safer and cleaner processes and their operation
Description
Process safety and risk management focuses on activities or events involving accidental release of chemicals and industrial wastes, and deals with the prevention of catastrophic and dangerous occurrences that have a negative impact on human safety, health, environment and the overall viability of an enterprise.
It includes activities such as accident forecasting, impact assessment, quantification of risk to industry, human health, environment and business, and development of strategies for prevention and control of such occurrences.
All these activities require precise information about chemicals, their behaviour under different operating conditions, process upsets, and design parameters. The end result is the development or optimization of processes that minimize the impact on both health and safety and the environment.
This lab provides basic
infrastructure facilities for investigating chemicals behaviour in
different operating conditions (especially in offshore operating
conditions), process upsets leading to accidents, and setting up
design parameters safety measure. In addition, pollution
prevention mechanisms and treatment technologies will also be
developed.
Objective
The basic objective of this facility is to predict behavior of the process in order to:
- Judge the suitability of the proposed process or operation
- Produce data for engineering purposes including regular operation as well as operation under upset situation
- Investigate measures to prevent the upsetting situation that may lead to accidents.
- Design process safety measures to deal with eventualities.
- Test designed safety measures against unexpected side reactions or decomposition or chemicals and mixtures.
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Minimize waste generation through process intensification and develop waste management methods
This lab also aims to develop new
models and methodologies for:
- accident forecasting
- probabilistic risk assessment,
- risk based safety measure design, and
- risk based inspection and maintenance management.
In process facilities (offshore or
onshore) there may be many types of hazards present, however this
facility focuses on three main types of hazards:
- pressure hazards,
- thermal hazards,
- reactive hazards,
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dust explosion hazards.
