European Master and Certification Program
in Risk Engineering and Management

I-R02 PETRO
Risk Analysis in Petrochemical Industry

Course code: 136469 (SEM)
Language of instruction: English
Duration of the course: 5 days (45h)
Lecturers: MA Svetozar Eremić (NIS Gasprom Neft Refinery Pancevo), M.Sc. Giovanni Uguccioni (RINA S.p.A.), Michael Renner (Asset & Corrosion Management Consultancy)
Assessment: Written Exam, Transfer Paper, [optional topic for Project Study Paper]

Short description

The petroleum industry is changing rapidly, challenging organizations and individuals to keep pace and distinguish opportunity from understanding, assessing and managing risk. This course presents current global and regional issues of risk analysis in petrochemical industries. Topics include risk aspects and methods for hazard identification, probability and consequences analysis, risk assessment, and health, safety and environment issues related to petrochemical industries.

Objectives

During the 4-day course the participants will have the opportunity

  • to get familiar with risk aspects and methods for hazard identification applied in petrochemical industries
  • to learn how to perform probability and consequences analysis and risk assessment
  • to recognize what are the health, safety and environment issues related to petrochemical industries

Target Attendees / Participants

Engineers, managers at all levels, inspectors, legislators and other professionals dealing with risk and safety in petrochemical industry as well as students, will profit from the course by

  • increasing their understanding of strengths and weaknesses of different approaches and
  • extending their knowledge on current risk based approaches for petrochemical plants.

Course Content by Units

Unit 1: Risks aspects in petrochemical industry

  • overview
  • links to the applied methods, standards and codes
  • HSE (Health, Safety, Environment) analyses and studies as a support to design and operation
Unit 2: Brief introduction to "Risk"
  • origin, measure
  • the "Risk Analysis" document
Unit 3: Hazard identification in petrochemical industry
  • HAZOP analysis
  • Brief examples of application
Unit 4: Probability Analysis
  • Calculation of probability
  • Elementary probability theory
  • Fault Tree Analysis technique
Unit 5: Workshop - Application of Fault Tree Analysis
  • identification of accident sequences
  • calculation of probability of an accident
  • ranking of sequences
Unit 6: The assessment of consequences of accidents
  • „Source Term“ – Identification of release cases
  • Evolution of a release: accident scenarios and Event Tree analysis
  • Models for assessment of fires, dispersion, explosion
  • Brief workshop - analysis of a typical accident by computer modeling
Unit 7: Assessment of risk
  • Models to assess the vulnerability of people and equipment
  • Qualitative and Quantitative risk criteria
Unit 8: Health, safety, environment issues
  • environment impacts
  • accident prevention
  • implementation of HSE management system,
  • regulatory expectations

Unit 9: Review of the course main issues and preparation for final exam

Unit 10: Exam

Teaching Methods

The course includes:

  • ex cathedra lecturing
  • number of examples illustrating important topics
  • hands-on breakout sessions
  • preparation for the exam by repetition of all course units and main issues
  • exam

Literature

  1. Textbook:
    Risk Analysis in Chemical/Petroleum industries, version 1, February 2009
  2. Transparencies:
    Unit 1: Methods, Standards and Codes and HSE Activities
    Unit 2: Risk Analysis - Principles and methods
    Unit 3: Hazard Identification - HAZOP
    Unit 4: Probability analysis
    Unit 5: Application of Fault Tree Analysis
    Unit 6: Consequences Analysis
    Unit 7: Risk Analysis
    Unit 8: Health, safety, environment issues
  3. Certification material, version 1, February 2009
  4. Additional material:
    FAULT THREE HANDBOOK, NUREG 0-492


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(Course profile ID: I-R02, generated on March 28, 2024)