Overview
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.
What You’ll 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
Who Should Attend
- Chemical engineers, process safety engineers, EHS engineers, safety consultants, regulators
Certificate and Assessment
A Certificate of Participation will be issued to participants who:
- Attend at least 75% of the course, and
- Undertake non-credit bearing assessment during the course
Continuing Professional Development
This course is eligible for the following continuing professional development units:
Schedule
| Date (2023) |
Time |
Venue |
| 6 – 7 Feb 2023 |
9:00 am – 6:00 pm |
SIT@Dover, 10 Dover Drive S138683 |
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Fees
| Category |
Full Fee |
After SF Funding |
| Singapore Citizen (Below 40) |
$2,140.00 |
$642.00 |
| Singapore Citizen (40 & above) |
$2,140.00 |
$242.00 |
| Singapore PR/LTVP+ Holder |
$2,160.00 |
$648.00 |
| Non-Singaporeans |
$2,160.00 |
Not Eligible |
Note:
- All figures include GST. GST applies to individuals and Singapore-registered companies.
- You can opt for either SkillsFuture Funding or Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy. Both cannot be combined.
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Terms & Conditions:
SkillsFuture Course Funding
To be eligible for the 70% training grant awarded, applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) must:
- Be a Singaporean Citizen or Singapore Permanent Resident or LTVP+ Holder
- Not receive any other funding from government sources in respect of the actual grant disbursed for the programme
SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy
To be eligible for the 90% enhanced subsidy awarded, applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) must:
- Be a Singaporean Citizen
- Be at least 40 years old
- Not receive any other funding from government sources in respect of the actual grant disbursed for the programme
SIT reserves the right to collect the balance of the programme fees (i.e. the potential grant amount) directly from the applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) should the above requirements not be fulfilled.
SIT reserves the right to make changes to published course information, including dates, times, venues, fees and instructors without prior notice.
