Risk management and process simulation
written 50%, TP 30%, Oral 20%
The objective of this teaching is to sensitize students to the concepts of thermal stability of substances, thermal runaway, operating conditions (real-time simulation) and process safety (risk analysis methods).
The first part of the course will be in the form of lectures on the risks of thermal runaway of products and chemical reactions, on the implementation of transient simulations and on hazard analysis methods.
The second part of the teaching will consist of a supervised project, implementing the reactions studied. The aim will be to design and manage a transient production unit (Aspen plus®, Aspen Hysys® dynamic) and to validate the operational safety of the process in terms of chemical risks using hazard analysis methods
Students who have completed this course will be able to:
– Determine the important parameters of a chemical reaction (enthalpy of reaction and decomposition, reaction rate, TMRad : Time to Maximun Rate under adiabatic conditions).
– Know how to simulate an industrial process on a large real-time software (Aspen plus, Aspen Hysysys dynamic) in order to predict any process drifts.
– Know how to make a chemical process safe by validating its operational integrity (start-up, steady state, shutdown of the installation) using hazard analysis methods (HAZOP method, cause tree, butterfly knot…).
Teaching language: FR
Documents:
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