Process Sustainability and Safety

The focus of the Process Sustainability and Safety module (ENG11056) is sustainability and safety of processes to ensure innovative approach to process industries.  This requires a multi-disciplinary approach to the design process that is informed by engineering, safety, environmental, economic, and societal constraints. 

The module covers modern technologies used to enhance process safety, improve product quality, reduce waste generation and resources usage, and develop innovative approaches and the understanding of how to combine and apply different principles such as sustainability, economics, and safety to novel and complex situations with cultural, societal, environmental and commercials considerations. 

Process Integration: benchmarking process performance and mass targeting, waste discharge minimisation, fresh usage minimisation, mass integration strategies, pinch techniques and recycle network design. 

Process Intensification: principles and applications, miniaturisation and microprocessing, enhanced transport processes, integration of process steps.  Mechanisms and merits (economic, process and environment) involved in process intensification.

Inherently Safer Process Design: ISD concepts and fundamentals, techniques for ISD implementation and applications to wider engineering disciplines.  Risk perception, accident and loss statistics, probability theory, event and faulty trees, QRA and LOPA.

Safety Management Systems (SMS): Management of safety during change. Investigation of process incidents.  Human errors.  Incident investigation management system, classifying incidents, incident causation theories, and causal factor identification.

On successful completion of this module the student will be able to:

• Develop a critical knowledge of understanding advanced safe and sustainable technologies, and the analysis of the environmental and societal impact of solutions to complex problems.
• Develop advanced and critical knowledge of the role played by process design and safety principles in the design and system analysis that will also take into consideration issues such as economics, environmental protection, resources conservation and social development.
• Develop the underlying knowledge that will enable the analysis of systems even in the cases of missing and incomplete data through research and innovation with financial, social and other risks considerations.
• Develop critical understanding and a broad knowledge of emerging design and safety technologies, their fit for purposes and limitations, and be able to communicate it to a variety of audiences.

This is an SCQF Level 11 module and upon successful completion, participants will be awarded 20 credits.

To view the module descriptor, please visit Programme Specifications and Module Descriptors 

 

Delivery 

This module will be delivered at the Paisley campus.  Timetable to be confirmed.

 

Course presenter

This module will be delivered by Dr Li Sun.

 

Funding

This course may be available on a fully funded basis to some delegates.  Further details, including regarding eligibility, are available under Funding Support.

If you have any questions, please contact us at cpd@uws.ac.uk    

 

NOTE: This is a university module and upon approval of your application, you will be invited to register and then supported to complete enrolment. To enrol on the university system, the first step involves security set-up using the Microsoft Authenticator app; you will need to ensure that you have a compatible smartphone.

Further enrolment information is available at the Student Information Portal.

To access this module via the CPD route, individuals should be ordinarily resident in Scotland.  

 

Further study

In addition to being available on a CPD basis, this module is part of our MSc Environmental Management.

Our MSc Environmental Management course prepares you for a career in the growing environmental and resource management sector, where there is increasing global demand for skilled graduates.

Modules available through the UWS CPD Centre include:

• Pollution Control
• Waste Management
• Clean Technology and Resource Management
• Sustainability Principles
• Environmental Systems

In addition to being available on a CPD basis, this module is part of our MSc Sustainable Technology.

Our MSc Sustainable Technology course prepares you for careers in the sustainable engineering sector where there is increasing demand for graduates. 

Modules available through the UWS CPD Centre include:

• Sustainable Energy: Sources and Storage
• Managing Quality
• Operations Management for Sustainability
• Pollution Control
• Project Management Fundamentals
• Stakeholder Management and Governance
• Clean Technology and Resource Management
• Sustainability Principles
• Environmental Systems
• Process Sustainability and Safety

Also, you may wish to consider our ground-breaking Master’s in Professional Practice (MProf).

The provides a personal, tailored learning experience at postgraduate level, blending personal development with academic studies where you build your own programme of study.

For the first time, learners can choose modules from across a wide range of options offered by all four Schools at UWS, allowing you to create a bespoke curriculum, with support and guidance from programme staff.

This personalised approach ensures that each learner's unique needs are recognised, supported, and integrated into the qualification they receive.  There are options for you to achieve a Postgraduate certificate, a Postgraduate Diploma, or a full Masters qualification. 

The UWS CPD Centre can also support your first steps onto the MProf through the following module:

• Making an Experiential Claim

For further information regarding these postgraduate programmes, please contact ask@uws.ac.uk

For further information regarding any of the above modules, please contact cpd@uws.ac.uk