SAChE® Certificate Program – Reactor Runaway and Overpressure Protection

Source: SAChE – Safety and Chemical Engineering Education

Course ID:

ELA989
Type:
eLearning (online) Course
Language:

English
Skill Level:

Advanced
Duration:

3.5 hours
CEUs:

0.35
PDHs:

3.50
Accrediting Agencies:

Florida
New Jersey
New York
RCEP

This course covers the process safety hazards associated with runaway chemical reactions. Several significant incidents are presented to introduce the concerns/hazards, which leads to a detailed presentation on the process safety information required to analyze these potential hazards followed by in-depth discussion of inherently safer methods, design methods, and layers of protection commonly applied to eliminate, prevent the occurrence, and mitigate the impact of runaway reaction incidents. The specialized considerations for overpressure system design for potential runaway reactors is introduced. A significant industrial runaway reactor incident is used to illustrate these concepts.

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Instructor(s):

Robert E. Young

Dr. Robert E Young is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering Practice in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science at the University of Southern California. Since joining USC full-time in 2016 (part-time from 2014 to 2016), Robert has taught the Chemical Engineering Process Control, Computer-Aided Design, Process Plant Design, and the Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Laboratory courses. Additionally, he has developed and taught a Chemical Process Safety course that is new to USC. He is currently working with the CCPS Undergraduate Process Safety...Read more

Gregory Hounsell

Greg developed his technical capabilities over a 35 year career at Pfizer Inc., first as a manager for ten years in the Brooklyn manufacturing facility, overseeing the production of synthesis and fermentation based food additives and antibiotics, and then as a design engineer and project manager in the corporation's Global Engineering Department. His engineering activities included providing process consulting support to sites worldwide, process support to capital projects, and design management on various projects.

Greg was instrumental in the development of...Read more

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What You'll Learn

Unit 1

Describe several runaway reactor process safety incidents
Identify common causes of this class of incident
Relate these causes to the Center for Chemical Process Safety Risk Based Process Safety management system elements.

Unit 2

List the key questions to ask and data needed to characterize an exothermic reaction
Describe reactor calorimetry experiments
Use reactor calorimetry data to characterize the reaction.

Unit 3

Elimination and Prevention of Runaway Reaction Hazards
Consideration of Inherently Safer Options
Design for Process Safety Layers of Protection

Unit 4

Identify key factors that influence the relief system design
Identify important factors in determining the reactive relief load
Classify the phase of a runaway reactor’s contents
Describe the general process of designing a relief valve for a vessel with the potential for a runaway reaction
Recognize the need for good hazard identification, good process safety information, and good analysis of potential risk scenarios to design safeguards to prevent and mitigate runaway reaction hazards.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed to be of interest to those students (undergraduate and graduate) as well as new professionals, who have had previous exposure to process safety fundaments and reactor kinetics/design. This course builds other related SACHE courses, primarily those dealing with reactive hazards (ELA962) and pressure relief systems (ELA971). This course provides a baseline understanding for those students who wish to pursue more extensive and detailed study of the hazards associated with runaway reactions.

Outline

Unit 1: Review of Reactor Runaway Process Safety Incidents
Unit 2: Characterization of Reactor Systems with the Potential for Runaway Events;
Unit 3: Elimination and Prevention of Runaway Reaction Hazards; and
Unit 4: Design of Overpressure Relief Systems.

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