Process Risk Assessment and Management
Objectives
The student must be able to identify, analyse and evaluate the risks associated with processes and bioprocesses, even when these risks are not obvious. He/She must be able to use the main techniques of risk assessment, qualification and quantification
during the various stages of given processes and bioprocesses, including those associated with the design, operation and maintenance steps. He/She must know the legislative framework and the good practices applicable to the identification, management, reduction and monitorization of risks.
General characterization
Code
12571
Credits
3.0
Responsible teacher
Mário Fernando José Eusébio
Hours
Weekly - 2
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Português
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Risk Assessment and Risk Management for the Chemical Process Industry, edited by: Harris R. Greenberg and Joseph J.Cramer, Wiley (2008)
What Went Wrong?: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided, Trevor Kletz, Butterworth-Heinemann, 5th edition (2009)
Security Risk Assessment: In the Chemical and Process Industry. Edited by: Genserik Reniers, Nima Khakzad and Pieter Van Gelder, De Gruyter (2017)
Teaching method
Available soon
Evaluation method
Available soon
Subject matter
Main techniques of identification, qualification and quantification of risk. Risk management in processes and bioprocesses
including development, operation and maintenance phases. Techniques of cost-benefit analysis of different options for mitigation, reduction or elimination of risk. Legal and normative instruments for risk prevention. Real case studies of risk assessment and management applied in processes and bioprocesses, to be presented by company managers.