CX4002 Environmental Risk Assesment Syllabus:
CX4002 Environmental Risk Assesment Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
• To study the tools to for quantitative risk assessment
• To develop a basic understanding of health hazards and risk assessment
• To gain knowledge about emergency risk management process
• To learn about different risk Hazard and accident models
• To analyze the past accidents and to frame policies for the future
UNIT I RISK ANALYSIS
Risk analysis introduction, quantitative risk assessment, rapid risk analysis –comprehensive risk analysis–identification, evaluation and control of risk
UNIT II RISK ASSESSMENT
Risk assessment – introduction and available methodologies, Risk assessment steps, Hazard identification, Hazard assessment (consequence analysis), probabilistic hazard assessment (Fault tree analysis)
UNIT III EMERGENCY PLANNING
Overall risk contours for different failure scenarios – disaster management plan – emergency planning – onsite and offsite emergency planning, risk management ISO 14000, EMS models – case studies–marketing terminal gas processing complex.
UNIT IV HAZARD MODELS
Safety measures design in process operations. Accidents modeling– release modeling, toxic release and dispersion modeling, fire and explosion modeling.
UNIT V POLICIES FOR MITIGATION
Past accident analysis: Flux borough – Mexico – Bhopal analysis. Government policies to manage environmental risk
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Students will able to
CO1: Understand the methods and processes employed in environmental health and risk assessment
CO2: Apply different tools to aid the risk assessment analysis
CO3: Gain knowledge on environmental laws and regulations to develop guidelines, procedures and processes for health and safety issues
CO4: Use epidemiological data and to analyze the various methods of risk assessment.
CO5: analyse the policies through realistic case studies
REFERENCES
1. Crowl, D. A. and Louvar, J. F., Chemical process safety; Fundamentals with applications, Prentice Hall Publication Inc., 2002
2. Houstan, H. B., Process safety analysis, Gulf publishing company, 1997
3. Khan, F. I. and Abbasi, S. A., Risk assessment of chemical process industries; Emerging technologies, Discovery publishing house, New Delhi, 1999
4. Paul Pritchard., Environmental Risk Management, Routledge, 2000
5. Ted W Simon., Environmental Risk Assessment – a Toxicological Approach, 2nd Edn., CRC Press., 2019