24/25 Semester genap
Chemical Process Safety
(TKK62026)
Instructor: Rama Oktavian
Email: rama.oktavian@ub.ac.id
Outlines
1. Course syllabus and grading
2. Process Safety: Overview
3. Chemical process safety terms
Introduction
 Based on study guide
 2 credits - compulsory
– Allowed :
Introduction
– Not Allowed :
Academic misconduct
University Rule:
Come to class minimum 80% during one semester meeting or you will
miss FINAL EXAM
Course syllabus
Course objectives:
Course contents:
Course textbooks
D. A. Crowl, J. E. Louvar.
2020. Chemical Process
Safety, 4th edition
R. L. Brauer. 2016. Safety and
Health for Engineers, 3rd edition
Course syllabus
• Let see our course agenda for Chemical Process safety course
• What about the course grading system?
What is safety?
Some definitions
• Safety, in general, is defined as “a strategy for accident prevention.”
• Process safety is safety applied to processes, including chemical processes.
• Accident: An unplanned event or sequence of events that results in an undesirable consequence
Example: A leak in a pressurized vessel containing 500 kg ammonia.
• What is the difference between accident and incident?
What is safety?
Some definitions
• What is the difference between accident and incident?
• Read Chemical Process Safety, 4th
edition textbook on Table 1-1 for another
safety terms
European agency for Safety and Health at Work
What is safety?
Some definitions
• Process safety includes hazard identification and evaluation, as well as risk analysis.
What is Process safety?
Myths about Process safety
• Process safety is the same as personal or even laboratory safety?
Why should we learn process safety?
• The Importance of Process Safety: Protecting Lives and Assets
• The implementation of effective chemical process safety measures prevents incidents and accidents
at pilot or manufacturing scale.
Why should we learn process safety?
Learning From History…
Why should we learn process safety?
Chemical Process plant is needed to
facilitate human livelihood
Convert Raw Materials into Useful Products
Why should we learn process safety?
Human is never Perfect !
Despite all the efforts, Accidents happened…
1980’s : A shocking decade
…numerous accidents still in our memory…
Bhopal (Dec 3, 1984)
40 tons Methyl Isocynate
escape to environment
3000 killed, 500,000 suffer aftermath
USD470mil spent
San Juanico (Nov
19,1984)
PEMEX Tank Farm Fire &
Explosion
550 people killed. Thousands injured.
Chernobyl (Apr 26, 1986)
(Prypiat, Ukraine)
Nuclear Melt-down in
power plant
50 killed, 4000 to hundreds of thousands cancer
death. Massive environmental effects. Chernobyl
exclusion zones covering portion of Ukraine and
Belarus. Prypiat remained evacuated
Piper Alpha (July 6, 1988)
(North Sea)
Fire & Explosion in oil
production platform
167 killed. Total insured loss is about US$ 3.4
billion. To date it is rated as the world's worst
offshore oil disaster in terms both of lives lost
and impact to industry.
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
(Mar 24, 1989)
Long Beach, California
250,000 barrel of crude oil dumped into the sea.
The worst man-made industrial disaster. Massive
environmental effect for many years
Bhopal, 1984
● 40 tons Methyl Isocynate escape
● Immediate cause : 500L seepage
● Erupts and release fumes
● 3000 died : respiratory failure
● 500,000 suffer aftermath
● USD 470 million spent
Chernobyl, 26 April 1986
● 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor, Ukraine
● Large area of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus evacuated, 336,000
people resettled.
● Fewer than 50 direct death but, thousands of cancer related cases
● Severe damage to the environment
More Recent: Fukushima Daiichi, Japan (2011)
● March 11, 2011. Nuclear meltdown following earthquake and
Tsunami
● 6 reactors designed by GE
● Full meltdown of reactor 1,2,3
● No immediate deaths due to direct radiation
● at least six workers exceeded lifetime legal limits for radiation
● more than 300 received significant radiation doses
● Impacted Japan’s Energy Policy
Deepwater Horizon, 20 April 2010
The Deepwater Horizon was a floating semi-submersible drilling unit owned by
Transocean and built in Korea, leased to BP.
Well blowout causes gas release, followed by explosion and fire. 11 killed, 16
injured Oil leaks at 8,000 barrels per day up to 17,000 barrels.
Deepwater Horizon sank on April 22, 2010.
Why should we learn process safety?
• Week 1 assignment
• Watch “Deepwater Horizon” movie (Netflix) starred by Mark Walhberg
• Find some safety terms and regulations (if any) mentioned from the movie dialogues
• Provide some screenshots from the dialogue where you can find those terms and
regulations
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Analyze from the process safety point of view for these following lists:
What is the company’s name:
What is the company’s business process?
What is the accident:
How did that happen:
Why should we learn process safety?
• Week 1 additional assignment
• Find the difference between Safety Engineer and Safety Officer