Integration of Process Safety into a Chemical Reaction Engineering Course: The Review of the T-2 Incident
The explosion and subsequent death of four people at the T2 Laboratories, Inc. chemical facility in Jacksonville, Florida, USA in 2007 has resulted in the United States Chemical Safety Board (CSB) finding that undergraduate chemical engineering students do not receive adequate knowledge in the hazards associated with chemical processing. This paper will summarize the events that led up to the T-2 tragedy. Afterwards, an analysis of the event will be presented that can be used in a chemical reaction engineering classroom to show the hazards involve when dealing with exothermic reactions. This event can be integrated into the educational experience of chemical engineering students learning about runaway reactions. Further, extension of techniques used for modeling will be covered for practitioners in the field of thermochemistry of exothermic reactions.
process safety education runaway reactions reactor explosions
Ronald J.WILLEY H.Scott FOGLER Michael B.CUTLIP
Dept.of Chem.Eng., Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA Dept.of Chem.Eng., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,USA Dept.of Chem.Eng., University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
国际会议
The 2010 International Symposium on Safety Science and Technology(2010 安全科学与技术国际会议)
杭州
英文
935-943
2010-10-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）