An Approach for Teaching Process Safety Risk Engineering and Management Control Concepts Using AIChE's Web-based Concept Warehouse

摘要

One of many efforts to help instructors teach process safety-related concepts to undergraduate chemical engineers includes using AIChE's web-based Concept Warehouse, a real-time, interactive teaching tool which can be used during lectures when teaching chemical engineering subjects. This article describes a student outreach effort by the AIChE Safety and Health Division to help populate the Concept Warehouse with vetted process safety-related problems. The purpose of this article is to describe how we are bridging the gap between the practitioner volunteering their expertise and faculty members interested in incorporating current process safety-related concepts into their classes. The goal for this effort is to provide a comprehensive instructional tool that can be used to help teach process safety-related engineering design concepts, as well as to help teach the essential administrative process safety and risk management system concepts, using problems that describe both the engineering and administrative controls required for safe and reliable operations. The Concept Warehouse is an information database and instructional tool accessible to anyone teaching core chemical engineering topics such as thermodynamics, kinetics, or process safety anywhere in the world. This article defines and provides the framework of this effort to populate the Concept Warehouse with process safety-related problems. As process safety risk reduction efforts continue to evolve, this article provides updates to traditional definitions that can be used to help orient those unfamiliar with these systems-related process safety risk management strategies. The article concludes with a few example problems which could be used when teaching process safety-related concepts. (c) 2018 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog 38: e12010, 2019