Safety and Pollution Control in Chemical Industry Course Code: 4340504
Safety and Pollution Control in Chemical Industry Course Code: 4340504
Safety and Pollution Control in Chemical Industry Course Code: 4340504
1. RATIONALE:
In the race of becoming an economic powerhouse without compromising safety and
environmental degradation is utmost priority for all stakeholders. Better Industrial safety and
pollution control in chemical industries leads to improve in reputation, work culture and safe
and smooth run of plant without breakdown which leads to economic growth. Chemical
engineer plays an important role in industrial safety and pollution control. This course deals
with basic concepts and methods for industrial safety and pollution control.
2. COMPETENCY:
The aim of this course is to help the student to attain the following industry identified
competency through various teaching learning experiences:
Use principles of safety & pollution control to operate plant safely, and control
pollution within permissible limits in chemical industries.
3. COURSE OUTCOMES(COs):
The theory, practical experiences and relevant soft skills associated with this course are to be
taught and implemented, so that the student demonstrates the following industry oriented
COs associated with the above mentioned competency:
1. Understand basic concepts of Environment, Health & Safety.
2. Apply hazard control method in chemical industries.
3. Discuss hazard identification method & Risk assessment method.
4. Apply pollution control methods in chemical industries.
(*):Out of 30marks under the theory CA,10 marks are for assessment of the micro-project to
facilitate the integration of COs, and the remaining 20 marks are the average of 2 tests to be taken
during the semester for assessing the attainment of the cognitive domain UOs required for the
Practical/Exercise
Sr. Unit Approx.
(Course Outcomes in Psychomotor Domain according
No. No. Hrs Required
to NBA Terminology)
1 Prepare a report of "Learning From Incident" for a given Incident I 2
Demonstrate handover of equipment( any one of heat
2 exchanger/Pump/Vessel etc.) for maintenance by applying lock II 2
out tag out (LOTO)
Prepare Work permit for maintenance of any equipment (heat
3 II 2
exchanger/Pump/Vessel etc.)
Demonstrate working of different fire extinguishers according to
4 II 2
classes of fire
5 Apply HAZOP method for a given chemical plant or any job/task III 2
6 Remove suspended Impurities from air using cyclone system IV 2
7 Determine pH value of given sample of water. V 2
8 Determine the chloride content in given sample. V 2
9 Determine Total solid in given sample. V 2
10 Determine dissolved oxygen of given sample. V 2
11 Determine biological oxygen demand of given sample. V 4
12 Determine chemical oxygen demand of given sample. V 2
13 Measure dosage of alum for waste water treatment. V 2
prepare chart of solid waste management method suitable for
14 VI 2
solid waste
Total 30
Note
I. More Practical Exercises can be designed and offered by the respective course teacher
to develop the industry relevant skills/outcomes to match the COs. The above table is
only a suggestive list.
II. The following are some sample ‘Process’ and ‘#Product’ related skills (more may be
added/deleted depending on the course) that occur in the above listed Practical
Exercises of this course required which are embedded in the COs and ultimately the
competency.
Fire Extinguisher: (1). DCP stored pressure type 6 kg, (2) Carbon
8 4
dioxide Extinguisher 4.5 kg.
8. UNDERPINNING THEORY:
The major underpinning theory is given below based on the higher level UOs of Revised Bloom’s
taxonomy that are formulated for development of the Cos and competency. If required, more
such higher-level UOs could be included by the course teacher to focus on the attainment of
Cos and competency.
Unit Major Learning Outcomes Topics and Sub-topics
(in cognitive domain)
Unit – I 1a. Describe importance of 1.1 Importance of Industrial Safety and
Introduction to safety in Industry pollution control
Industrial 1b. Discuss Significant Industrial 1.2 Significant Industrial Disaster: Bhopal
Safety and Disasters gas tragedy
pollution 1c. Define Safety 1.3 terminologies:
control a. Safety
b. Pollution
c. Exposure
d. Severity
e. Probability
f. Hazard
g. Risk
h. Accident
i. Unsafe Act and Unsafe Condition
j. Nearmiss
k. Aspect and Impact
1d. List out various Indian and 1.4 Overview of Indian and International
International Safety, health and Safety, health and Environmental
Environmental laws, and Standards and Laws
standards Air and Water quality specifications by
GPCB or CPCB)
Unit – II 2a. Describe chemical Industrial 2.1 Describe Chemical industrial Hazards
Hazards and hazards a. Chemical hazard
Their Control b. Electrical hazard
c. Mechanical hazard
d. Biological hazard
e. Radiation hazard
2b. Classify Chemical Hazard 2.2 Classification of Chemical hazard
2c. List out various Occupational 2.3 Occupational diseases and their causes
diseases and their causes
2d. Explain Hazard control 2.4 Hazard control hierarchy
methods
a. Elimination
b. Substitution
c. Engineering Controls
Ventilation and lighting, Enclosure,
Isolation
d. Administrative Controls
Work permit system, Lock Out Tag
Out(LOTO) Management, Drills and
table top exercises, Good
Housekeeping- 5S, Color codes and
symbols for safety in chemical
plants
e. Personal Protective Equipments
(PPEs)
2e. Explain Fire Hazard and its 2.5 Fire hazards & their causes
control methods 2.6 Fire Triangle and Fire Extinguishment
method
2.7 Classes of fire and respective suitable
firefighting equipment
2.8 Fire extinguisher operation: PASS
2f. Discuss MSDS 2.9 MSDS
Unit – III 3a. Explain Hazard Identification 3.1 List out various Hazard Identification
Hazard Methods methods :
Identification 3.2 Explain Hazard Identification Method:
and Risk Hazard Operability Study (HAZOP)
Assessment 3b. Explain Risk Assessment 3.3 List out various Risk Assessment
Methods Methods
3.4 Explain Risk Assessment method: ETA
and FTA
Unit – IV 4a. Define Air Pollution, 4.1 Air Pollution Pollutants, and its sources
Air Pollution Pollutants and its sources
Control 4b. Describe Particulate control 4.2 Particulate control equipments Gravity
equipments Settling Chamber, Cyclone separator, Fabric
Filter, Wet Scrubber and Electrostatic
Precipitator
4c. Describe Thermal 4.3 Thermal incineration, stack
incineration
4d. Apply control methods for 4.4 Methods for control of Sulfur dioxide
gaseous air pollution due to emission
Sulfur dioxide emission a. Extraction of sulfur from fuels:
Hydrodesulphurization of coal
b. Desulphurization of flue gases by
Wet processes (wet scrubbing
methods)
4e. Apply control methods for 4.5 Methods for control of Nitrogen Oxides
gaseous air pollution from a. Modification of operating condition
Nitrogen Oxides. b. Modification of design condition
Unit – V 5a. Define Water Pollution. 5.1 Water Pollution Pollutants, and its
Water 5b. List out different Water sources
Pollution Pollutants and its sources
Control 5c. Explain characteristics of 5.2 characteristics of water
water DO, BOD,COD, VM, Suspended Matter
(turbidity), TDS, pH
5d. Describe removal of 5.3 Waste water treatment method
pollutants by applying Waste a. Primary treatment
water treatment methods i. Pretreatment
ii. Sedimentation
iii. Floatation
b. Secondary
treatment
i. Aerobic process
ii. Anaerobic process: Activated
sludge process
iii. trickling filter
5e. Describe removal of 5.4 Suspended solids treatment
pollutants by applying various methods
treatment methods on a. Micro straining
suspended solids b. Coagulation
c. Filtration
5f. List treatment methods for 5.5 Dissolved solids and treatment
dissolved solids methods
a. Ion exchange
b. Reverse Osmosis
Note: This specification table provides general guidelines to assist students for their
learning and to teachers to teach and question paper designers/setters to formulate test
items/questions to assess the attainment of the UOs. The actual distribution of marks at
different taxonomy levels (of R, U and A) in the question paper may slightly vary from above
table.
related co-curricular activities which can be undertaken to accelerate the attainment of the
various outcomes in this course: Student should perform the following activities in group
and prepare small reports of about 5 pages for each activity. They should also collect/record
physical evidence such as photographs/videos of the activities for their (student’s) portfolio
which will be useful for their placement interviews:
a) Make a survey on Accident/incidents happened in your city with the help of newspaper/TV
or any social media.
b) Visit any public place and nearby industry, prepare a report on safety features
incorporated at both place.
c) Make a survey on awareness of people regarding firefighting and emergency response
at your society/village. Conduct an awareness drive and again survey the same.
d) Make a survey of air quality of your city with the help of internet.
e) Visit nearby fire station and make a report of same.
f) Make a report on Sewage water treatment plant located in your city.
g) Make a survey of solid waste management in your city/village.
h) Make a report on Environment Impact assessment of any project, Available on internet
i) Prepare a report on Nature based solutions for climate change in India, Gujarat and your
district/city/village. Efforts needed for their improvements. At last engage yourself for
NBS and acknowledge same in the report with the help of photos.
These are sample strategies, which the teacher can use to accelerate the attainment of the
various outcomes in this course:
a) Massive open online courses (MOOCs) may be used to teach various topics/subtopics.
b) Guide student(s) in undertaking micro-projects/activities.
c) Different types of teaching methods i.e. video demonstration, activity based learning,
case study, m-learning need to be employed by teachers to develop the outcomes.
d) Some of the topics/sub-topics which is relatively simpler or descriptive is to be given to
the students for self-learning but to be assessed using different assessment methods.
e) Teachers need to ensure to create opportunities and provisions for co-curricular
activities.
f) Guide students to address issues on environment and sustainability with reference to
using the knowledge of this course
g) OERs, V-lab, and O-labs may be used to teach for the teaching of different concepts.
14. SUGGESTEDLEARNINGWEBSITES
a) https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
b) https://www.vlab.co.in/
c) https://nptel.ac.in/
d) https://www.osha.gov/
e) https://labour.gov.in/industrial-safety-health
f) https://www.iso.org/popular-standards.html
g) https://ndma.gov.in/
h) https://www.csb.gov/videos/
i) https://www.oisd.gov.in
j) https://cpcb.nic.in/
k) https://gpcb.gujarat.gov.in/
l) https://www.accuweather.com/
m) https://unfccc.int/
Contact
Sr. Institute Email ID
Name and Designation No.
No.
Ms. Khushbu N G. P. khushbu.ch306@gmail.com
Chaudhary Gandhinagar
1
Lecturer in Chemical
Engg.
Mr. Savan S Prajapati G. P. Rajkot svnprajapati@gmail.com
2 Lecturer in Chemical
Engg.