Process Safety Engineering Fundamentals: 3 semester hours

Catalog description

This course addresses aspects of chemical process safety and loss prevention, such as identification of potential hazards and hazardous conditions associated with processes and equipment involved in the chemical process industries. It includes methods of predicting the severity of the associated hazards and preventing, controlling or mitigating them. It emphasizes quantitative engineering analysis; techniques for performing process hazard analysis, risk assessment, and accident investigation are introduced.