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Safety, Environmental Assessment and Risk Analysis
Last Updated: 2026-02-05 16:07:46
Abstract
This module provides an overview of safety in the chemical industry, focusing on toxicology, industrial hygiene, fires and explosions, hazards identification and risk assessment. It also introduces the fundamentals of environmental impact studies, focusing on life cycle assessment.
Objective
This module introduces the concepts and tools needed to understand and analyze the main hazards in chemical processes, including fires and explosions, chemical reactivity, toxic emissions, and equipment failure. It also provides an overview of the life cycle assessment methodology and how to use it to quantify the environmental footprint of chemical products from cradle to grave, covering carbon emissions, and impacts on human health and ecosystems.
Content
The module includes lectures on general safety principles, the fundamentals of fires and explosions and chemical reactivity, toxicology and industrial hygiene, risk analysis and quantification, and life cycle assessment. The lectures include both theory and coursework based on the concepts and tools explained.
Resources
Lecture Notes
The lecture notes will be delivered to the students in the form of slides and additional material.
Literature
The module is mostly based on the book Chemical Process Safety by Daniel Crowl and Joseph Louvar, Pearson Education US ISBN: 9780134857770.
Learning Materials (Links)
- Main link
- All the material available in Moodle
- Recording
- ETH streaming and recording. Additional streaming via zoom, links will be provided in Moodle.
- Learning environment
- All the material available in Moodle
- Documents
- All the material available in Moodle
- Literature
- All the material available in Moodle
- Additional links
- All the material available in Moodle
General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- BSC , DR
- Frequency
- Yearly recurring
Examination
- Type
- session examination
- Mode
- written 180 minutes
- Aids
- Closed-book exam, only calculators allowed.
Course Components
| Type | Title | Time & Place | Hours |
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| lecture with exercise | Safety, Environmental Assessment and Risk Analysis |
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2 h weekly |
Offered In
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Doctorate Chemistry and Applied Biosciences (For further information: )
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