Functional and Process Safety

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	040-0161/01
Abbreviation	FaPB
Course title	Functional and Process Safety
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Occupational and Process Safety
Course coordinator	prof. Dr. Ing. Aleš Bernatík

Subject syllabus

1. Qualitative methods of hazard identification in technologies.
2. Index methods (DOW).
3. Qualitative Methods - Advanced Methods (HAZOP, FMEA).
4. Fundamentals of probabilistic engineering - reliability
5. Mean time between failures, determination of device control interval.
6. Quantitative Methods - Fault Analysis Using a Fault Tree.
7. Failure propagation analysis using the event tree method.
8. Analysis of sources of human failure in chemical plants.
9. Quantification of individual and social risk.
10. Probit function.
11. Functional safety.
12. SIL level determination, safety valves.
13. LOPA Analysis.

E-learning

Study materials are available at system E-vyuka.

Literature

"Dow's Fire and Explosion Index Hazard Classification Guide and Chemical Expesure Guide, Dow Company", T.D.C., 1994
Guidelines for Chemical Process -- Quantitative risk analysis, Second edition, AICHE, CCPS, 2000

Advised literature

JELEMENSKÝ, Ľ. -- LABOVSKÝ, J. -- LABOVSKÁ, Z. -- MARKOŠ, J. Hodnotenie nebezpečenstva chemických procesov. Bratislava : Nakladateľstvo STU, 2012. 112 s. .
Lees, Loss prevention in the process industries, 1996.

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