Improving Process Safety in the Chemical Industry: Fundamental and Advanced Research
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2025 | Viewed by 1070
Special Issue Editors
Interests: process safety; hydrogen safety; machine learning; risk management
Interests: risk analysis; safety assessment; sustainable design and technology innovation in chemical processes; safety and sustainability in process design; inherent safety and inherently safe design; industrial risk
Interests: fire safety economics; risk management; chemical process safety; fire-induced domino effects
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The chemical industry is related to nearly every facet of industry and society. Its development dramatically improves the quality of life and makes a significant contribution to world Gross Domestic Product (GDP). With the increasing demand for chemical products and energy sources, the chemical industry utilizes more complex processes, builds larger chemical industrial parks, and produces emerging energy sources, such as hydrogen and batteries. Process safety remains a major challenge during the development and operation of chemical industrial processes. Understanding possible risks related to chemical production and storage and developing effective risk management to deal with those risks is imperative to ensure the safe development of this specific industry, indicating the necessity of process safety research.
This Special Issue aims to present recent progress on the prevention, mitigation and management of process hazards and risks leading to incidents, such as fire, explosion and toxic releases. The scope of this Special Issue is thus concerned with advancements of safety related to the use, storage, manufacture, handling, and transportation of highly hazardous chemicals. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Process safety management;
- Process safety culture;
- Fundamental issues of safety;
- Incident investigation;
- Design and reliability of protective systems;
- Process alarm management;
- Emergency planning;
- Process fires;
- Gas and dust explosions;
- Dispersion of toxic materials;
- Runaway reactions;
- Safety in decarbonized processes;
- Safety of chemical energy vectors (hydrogen, batteries, etc.);
- Inherently safer design;
- Human error/human factors;
- Risk assessment;
- Process safety education and training;
- Domino effect;
- Natech;
- Cascading events.
Prof. Dr. Bin Zhang
Prof. Dr. Valerio Cozzani
Prof. Dr. Genserik Reniers
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogen safety
- lithium-ion battery safety
- domino effect
- process safety
- risk assessment
- risk management
- chemical industry
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