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. **

Tutorial:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Other:

1 x 1 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. Personal health and safety. Process safety analysis. Loss prevention. Process safety in design. Process safety in operations. Defining and quantifying risk. Checklists. HAZOP studies. HAZAN techniques. Human factors. Linking HAZOP, process control, instrumentation and alarm systems. Cost of plant safety. Environmental impact. Case studies of serious plant accidents.

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Field of Education:

030301 Chemical Engineering

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

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
2006	Bentley 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