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Course Overview
PDU (PEB) – Pending approval
SDU (MOM) – Pending approval
Process safety is an important contributor to the reliability of chemical manufacturing. It is an integral but sometimes underappreciated, part of the design, operation and maintenance of process plants.
A key component of process safety management and information includes identifying and understanding reactive hazards and safe operating limits. Chemical reactivity hazards arise from both the intrinsic property of a material (e.g. thermal decomposition), uncontrolled chemical interactions with other chemical species (e.g. incompatibles) and/or undesirable process conditions (e.g. temperature).This course is designed to introduce the essential steps in managing such hazards which include identifying, testing and assessing chemical reactivity risks with the aid of calorimetry. The information collected will then be used in the design of appropriate vent sizing which is part of Process Safety. This course is designed specifically for chemists, chemical engineers, process safety engineers and safety and health professionals who are involved in developing and operating chemical processes or conducting safety/risk assessments. This course will also be useful for specialists involved in accident investigations where reactive hazards are involved.
This course will enhance your understanding of how reactive hazards impact scale-up and process safety. You will also discover how such hazards can be characterised and their corresponding risks assessed. In addition, you will be introduced to the use of calorimetry to assess reactivity hazards and its application in vent sizing. This knowledge will aid chemical engineers and safety practitioners to predict, prevent or review chemical runaway scenarios. This course will also aid in developing bases of safety or safety cases of chemical processes and a better understanding of safe operating limits.
Who Should Attend
- Chemical engineers, process safety engineers, EHS engineers, safety consultants, regulators
What You Will Learn
Topic 1: Process safety-reactive hazards
- Introduction to process safety
- Why is safety important – review of previous industrial incidents
- Process safety strategy
- Basics of risk analysis
- Hazard assessment strategy
- What does onset temperature really mean?
- Assessment of desired chemistry-reaction calorimetry
- Assessment of undesired chemistry-adiabatic or isothermal calorimetry
- Hazards of scaling up a process
- Case study: calorimetry used to evaluate hazards of a phenol-formaldehyde reaction
- Introduction to vent sizing
- Fundamentals of flammability hazards
- Dust hazards and safeguards
Topic 2: Calorimetry and vent sizing
- Discussion of calorimetry (instruments and methods)
- What is thermal inertia and why it is important
- Overview of VSP2 and ARSST (low thermal inertia calorimetry)
- Basics of test design
- Calorimetry data interpretation
- Determination of kinetics and applications
- Onset temperature vs. time to maximum rate (TMR)
- Case study: scale-up considerations for hydrolysis of epichlorohydrin
- Two-phase flow fundamentals
- Case study: Vent sizing examples using calorimetry data
Teaching Team
![Shaik Salim](/sitlearn/openhouse/sites/sitlearn/files/styles/card_profile/public/2023-03/Shaik%20Salim.png.webp?itok=EcsleGco)
Shaik Salim
Principal Specialist, Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment
![Gabriel Wood](/sitlearn/openhouse/sites/sitlearn/files/styles/card_profile/public/2023-03/Gabriel%20Wood.jpg.webp?itok=6O4WloK-)
Gabriel Wood
Senior Chemical Engineer, Fauske International
Certificate and Assessment
A Certificate of Participation will be issued to participants who:
- Attend at least 75% of the course, and
- Undertake and pass non-credit bearing assessment during the course
Fee Structure
The full fee for this course is S$2,180.00.
Category | After SF Funding |
---|---|
Singapore Citizen (Below 40) | S$654.00 |
Singapore Citizen (40 & Above) | S$254.00 |
Singapore PR / LTVP+ Holder | S$654.00 |
Non-Singapore Citizen | S$2,180.00 (No Funding) |
Note: All fees above include GST. GST applies to individuals and Singapore-registered companies.
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