ID:
SCC0578
Duration (hours):
76
CFU:
9
SSD:
IMPIANTI CHIMICI
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (22/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
Companies and processes that deal with hazardous substances which are capable of causing accidents with consequences of great magnitude on both workers and citizens (eg. fires, explosions, release of gaseous toxic substances, etc ..), need to be carefully analyzed and characterized from a security point of view.
The course aims to give the students a complete understanding of these issues, addressing them to the management of a company with a full and total awareness of the responsibilities related to the safety of industrial activities at high risk. This goes through the acquisition of a basic knowledge related to the risk assessment in process companies.
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the teaching, the student:
1) will be able to identify hazards and accident scenarios in industrial environments;
2) will be able to qualify and quantify practically (in probabilistic terms) the risk and evaluate the magnitude of the accident events identified during the hazard identification phase;
3) will be able to identify and propose mitigation measures and intervention devices in emergency conditions.
Companies and processes that deal with hazardous substances which are capable of causing accidents with consequences of great magnitude on both workers and citizens (eg. fires, explosions, release of gaseous toxic substances, etc ..), need to be carefully analyzed and characterized from a security point of view.
The course aims to give the students a complete understanding of these issues, addressing them to the management of a company with a full and total awareness of the responsibilities related to the safety of industrial activities at high risk. This goes through the acquisition of a basic knowledge related to the risk assessment in process companies.
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the teaching, the student:
1) will be able to identify hazards and accident scenarios in industrial environments;
2) will be able to qualify and quantify practically (in probabilistic terms) the risk and evaluate the magnitude of the accident events identified during the hazard identification phase;
3) will be able to identify and propose mitigation measures and intervention devices in emergency conditions.
Course Prerequisites
Not binding prerequisites.
The course requires the well-established knowledge of basic elements of inorganic and organic chemistry, mathematical analysis and physics.
The course requires the well-established knowledge of basic elements of inorganic and organic chemistry, mathematical analysis and physics.
Teaching Methods
The course will be conducted using both lectures and numerical exercises.
Frontal lessons will make extensive use of multimedia movies in order to promote the learning of all the notions concerning: 1) the operation mode of the treated industrial equipment; 2) the dynamics of all the analyzed processes; 3) the possible accident scenarios related to the use of the treated equipment.
Frontal lessons will make extensive use of multimedia movies in order to promote the learning of all the notions concerning: 1) the operation mode of the treated industrial equipment; 2) the dynamics of all the analyzed processes; 3) the possible accident scenarios related to the use of the treated equipment.
Assessment Methods
The final exam is a written test lasting approximately 3 hours, which verifies the acquisition of the expected knowledge and skills.
The written test consists of three different types of questions aimed at ascertaining the ability to:
1) summarize and critically analyze a topic (or part of a topic) covered within the course;
2) numerically solve a typical problem handle during the practical exercises (industrial ventilation, dispersion of substances in the atmosphere, fires, sizing of emergency devices);
3) compile a table for hazards identification, identify accidental scenarios and appropriately quantify the risk for simple industrial systems (represented through their “Piping and Instrumentation Design”).
The written test consists of three different types of questions aimed at ascertaining the ability to:
1) summarize and critically analyze a topic (or part of a topic) covered within the course;
2) numerically solve a typical problem handle during the practical exercises (industrial ventilation, dispersion of substances in the atmosphere, fires, sizing of emergency devices);
3) compile a table for hazards identification, identify accidental scenarios and appropriately quantify the risk for simple industrial systems (represented through their “Piping and Instrumentation Design”).
Contents
Module 1: Security Elements
Duration: 20 hours – Frontal lessons
Basic concepts: risk and danger (definitions within the context of reliability and safety). Illustration of the structure of a chemical company at risk of a major accident. Assessment of exposure to toxic/flammable compounds: evaporation models. Industrial ventilation: modeling and solving simple patterns in working environments.
Module 2: Risk Analysis
Duration: 26 hours - Lectures + 10 hours – Exercises
Description of the structure of a risk analysis. Identification of hazards and identification of accident scenarios, quantification of the probability of occurrence. Quantification of the magnitude of accident events. Risk estimation. Individual and social risk. Risk assessment criteria.
Module 3: Illustration of the operating principle of industrial equipment that intervenes in accident conditions.
Duration: 18 hours – Lectures + 2 hours - Exercises
Emergency devices. Torches, quench pools and gravity separators. Numerical applications for the sizing and verification of such equipment.
Duration: 20 hours – Frontal lessons
Basic concepts: risk and danger (definitions within the context of reliability and safety). Illustration of the structure of a chemical company at risk of a major accident. Assessment of exposure to toxic/flammable compounds: evaporation models. Industrial ventilation: modeling and solving simple patterns in working environments.
Module 2: Risk Analysis
Duration: 26 hours - Lectures + 10 hours – Exercises
Description of the structure of a risk analysis. Identification of hazards and identification of accident scenarios, quantification of the probability of occurrence. Quantification of the magnitude of accident events. Risk estimation. Individual and social risk. Risk assessment criteria.
Module 3: Illustration of the operating principle of industrial equipment that intervenes in accident conditions.
Duration: 18 hours – Lectures + 2 hours - Exercises
Emergency devices. Torches, quench pools and gravity separators. Numerical applications for the sizing and verification of such equipment.
Course Language
Italian
More information
The teacher receives on appointment. It is possible to book an appointment by sending an email to: sabrina.copelli@uninsubria.it.
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ENGINEERING FOR WORK AND ENVIRONMENT SAFETY
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