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CL4040 - Safety, Environment and Sustainability in the Process Industries
Credit points: |
3 |
Year: |
2021 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band
2 |
Administered by: |
College of Science and Engineering |
Safety, environmental and sustainability issues are critical concerns for engineers
in industry. Designing and operating safe and sustainable systems that enhance society
and the environment in which those systems are situated, are key skills that must
be developed. The genesis of those skills find their place in the undergraduate curriculum,
and are especially focussed upon in this subject. CL4040 is divided into two halves.
The first is concerned with developing the skill of risk management for decision making
to analyse, assess and improve the safety characteristics of socio-technical chemical
process systems. This includes learning from past accidents in the chemical industry,
hazard identification, quantitative consequence and frequency analyses, evaluating
risk and making a design as to how to treat the risk. Safety risk assessment and treatment
involves consideration of inherently safer design principles. Importantly, the limitations
to the effectiveness of traditional risk assessment practices will be discussed, to
encourage the students to develop a realistic appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses
of the tools they are using. The second half of the subject focusses on environmental
impacts and sustainability. It is designed to develop students with skills in life
cycle assessment, pollution control technologies in air, water and land. It also covers
the basic philosophy, principles and practical guidelines for sustainable development
of industries. A key theme running through this subject is to make the students aware
of their responsibilities as an engineer across safety, environment and sustainability
issues and practices.
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate knowledge of risk and safety analysis techniques in chemical engineering;
- analyse risk and safety cases in process industries;
- explain the implications of legal, ethical, sustainability and environmental impact
responsibilities in chemical engineering decision making;
- evaluate projects using sustainability and life cycle assessment principles and techniques.
Subject Assessment
- Written > Test/Quiz 1 - (50%) - Individual
- Oral > Presentation 1 - (10%) - Individual
- Written > Abstract - (30%) - Group
- Written > Research report - (10%) - Individual.
Prerequisites: |
Must have completed 48 credit points toward BEngineering |
Availabilities
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Townsville,
Study Period 1,
Internal
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Census Date 25-Mar-2021 |
Coordinator: |
Professor Yinghe He |
Lecturers:
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Professor Yinghe He, Dr Liyuan Fan. |
Workload expectations: |
The student workload for this
3
credit point subject is approximately
130 hours.
- 26 hours lectures (didactic or interactive)
- 39 hours workshops
- assessment and self-directed study
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Note:
Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process,
and in case
of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest
official information.