Oct 18, 2024  
Graduate Catalog 2022 - 2023 
    
Graduate Catalog 2022 - 2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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CHE 548 - Chemical Process Safety

[3 credit(s)]
Pre-requisites: CHE 404 and CHE 408; or graduate standing in chemical engineering. The course objective is to understand the fundamentals of process safety and apply them to process design. Major chemical accidents are reviewed and lessons that have been learned. Topics covered include hazards and risk assessment methods, industrial hygiene and toxicology, source models for liquid and gas leakage, toxic releases and dispersion models, fires and explosions and ways to prevent them, chemical reactivity and relief systems and relief sizing.


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