Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

302269 (v.2) ChE 421 Risk Management


Area: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 2 x 3 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 302201 (v.2) ChE 541 Risk Management or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 302257 (v.2) ChE 321 Mass Transfer Operations or any previous version
AND
302259 (v.2) ChE 322 Process Plant Engineering or any previous version
AND
302263 (v.2) ChE 325 Reaction Engineering or any previous version
AND
302264 (v.2) ChE 326 Process Control or any previous version
Syllabus: Risk management. Accident sources, consequences and preventative action. Personnel health and safety. Process safety analysis. Loss prevention. Process safety in design. Process safety in operations. Defining and quantifying risk. Checklists. Harzard and operability analysis (HAZOP) studies. Hazard analysis (HAZAN) techniques. Human factors. Linking HAZOP, process control, instrumentation and alarm systems. Cost of plant safety. Environmental impact. Case studies of serious plant accidents.; ;
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 030301 Chemical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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