Safety and Chemical Engineering Education (SaChE)

1. Safety and Chemical Engineering Education (SaChE) Dr. Tom Spicer Professor and Head Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of Arkansas

2. What we are going to do • Introductions • Safety as professional mindset • What SaChE does to promote safety education • SaChE products • Process Safety Beacon • ChemE Car Safety • Faculty workshops (next 14-18 Sept 2008, Rohm & Haas) • Demonstration of liquid fuel flammability

3. Safety as Professional Mindset • Part time staff person as Safety Officer • Responsible for all training programs • Responsible for chemical inventory maintenance • Responsible for regulatory compliance • Comprehensive lab safety program – undergrad program • Required training on lab safety in undergraduate labs • Required 3 hour course in chemical process safety

4. Safety as Professional Mindset • Comprehensive lab safety program – grad programs • Ongoing safety training programs for graduate students to meet regulatory requirements (annual calendar, pre-testing used to screen for need for training) • Annual walk through inspections of graduate student labs; follow up with faculty • Annual fire extinguisher training for graduate students • Red Cross Basic first aid for all incoming graduate students • Lab safety policies fairly enforced • Arbitrary (Seinfeld’s “soup nazi”) v. relevant • Over-the-top requirements v. common sense is not common • Inform and educate

5. Safety as Professional Mindset • Relevance • Bhopal, India • Graniteville, SC • BP, Houston • Dallas, TX

6. SaChE Products • Available with annual membership in SaChE ($300/yr) • Group Manager at each school is the primary point of contact; Group Manager grants login capabilities to individual faculty or staff • Faculty can grant access to some products to students as a group (in progress) • SaChE web site: http://www.sache.org/index.asp

7. SaChE Problem Sets • Problem 41 • Would the background be relevant to an undergraduate in Thermodynamics? • Were the instructor comments helpful? • Would you assign this problem: • as is? • with some modifications?

8. SaChE Problem Sets • Problem 42 • Were the instructor comments helpful? • Would you be comfortable assigning this problem if you didn’t understand where the criteria for mixture flash point comes from? • Would you assign this problem: • as is? • with some modification? • for a nonideal solution?

9. SaChE Problem Sets • Problem 48 • Would this problem work well on a process simulator? If so, would you modify it? • Would you assign this problem: • as is? • with some modification? • for a nonideal solution?

10. Fire in the Hole!Chemical Engineering andOur Commitment to Safety

11. Fire triangle Ignition source Fire Self-propagating Exothermal Reaction Fuel Oxygen

12. Think about this exercise! • Fire is officially one of the first three elements – so people have thought about it for a long time • Did you read the assignment for today? • So, you have a lot experience including some text book background • Do you think you are going to be surprised today? All of this underscores the need for lifelong learning.

13. Flammability demonstration • In case of an uncontrolled fire: • Anybody worked a fire extinguisher before? • Class of fire and appropriate extinguisher • Rule of thumb; fire feedback • Misuse of an extinguisher can spread the fire • Exit the room and the building in an orderly fashion – be cool • Activate the fire alarm on the way out of the building

14. Fuels

15. Still other things to consider

16. Post 9-11 Issues – Shipping 33,000,000 gal LNG 10,000 gal LNG

17. Further information • E-mail: tos@uark.edu • Web: www.cheg.uark.edu