Process Safety Calculations

Renato Benintendi Msc CEng FIChemE is Senior Researcher at Chemical Physical Department ULB University, Brussels and Process Safety and Loss Prevention Principal Consultant at Wood (Formerly Foster Wheeler), Reading Office. He authored more than 40 publications on international journals, is tutoring and mentoring dissertations in several universities in the UK, France, and Italy. He has 35 years’ experience in process engineering, process safety engineering, environmental engineering, asset integrity management, is lecturing and delivering conference papers in USA, Asia, Europe, and is the author of research programs in process safety and environmental engineering. His specialties encompass process safety, safety modelling, HSE international regulation expertise, environmental engineering, process engineering, and unit operation engineering.

PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS 1. Chemistry of Process Safety 2. Thermodynamics and Thermochemistry of Process Safety 3. Reaction Engineering for Process Safety 4. Fluid-Dynamics for Process Safety 5. Loads and Stress Analysis for Process Safety 6. Statistics and Reliability for Process Safety

PART 2: CONSEQUENCE ASSESSMENT 7. Source Models 8. Dispersion Models 9. Fire 10. Explosions 11. Dust Explosions

PART 3: QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT 12. Quantitative Risk Assessment 13. Explosion protection of vessels and enclosures 14. Structural dynamics of buildings subject to explosion loads 15. Mitigation of toxic risk 16. Layer of Protection Analysis for SIL assignment 17. Calculations for equipment asset integrity management