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Safety and Risk Analysis of Industrial Processes from the Perspective of Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 July 2024 | Viewed by 1578

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Paolo Mocellin

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Interests: safety of industrial chemical processes and plants; safety and security of innovative and strategic infrastructures (CCUS, energy carrier supply chains, electrified chemical processes); development of chemical processes according to integrated frameworks (economics, safety, environment and social acceptability); fire safety engineering in the industrial and civil contexts; electrification of the chemical industry; applied computational fluid dynamics for safety and fire prevention

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to launch a new Special Issue focusing on the safety and risk analysis of industrial chemical processes from the perspective of sustainability. Sustainable processes must also ensure high-level safety via appropriate hazard and risk identification, management and reduction strategies. Such strategies, including technical, operational and educational approaches, can be applied at any stage of the lifecycle of a process (design, construction, operation and dismission) and during emergencies. Each processing category (e.g., chemical, pharmaceutical, the food industry, energy industry, waste industry, etc.) is affected by specific hazards and risks that need to be identified, tackled and controlled in light of particular process conditions and regimes, the unit operations involved, and the size and nature of the plant.

Based on this foreword, the Special Issue aims to collect high-quality papers addressing current challenges and innovations or perspectives in the safety and risk analysis of industrial chemical processes from the perspective of sustainability.

In this context, this Special Issue seeks papers encompassing the following topics, among others:

  • Innovative hazard and risk analysis techniques in the field of industrial processes;
  • Applied safety and environmental analysis frameworks;
  • Approaches to include multi-risk analysis in the process industry;
  • Safety, environmental, and societal metrics, indicators and policies;
  • Case-studies;
  • Preventive and mitigative strategies for industrial and environmental accidents related to industrial processes;
  • Design of safe and sustainable industrial chemical processes, including environmental issues;
  • Environmental management in industrial chemical processes;
  • Methods for evaluating the environmental and societal impact of industrial processes;
  • Technical, environmental and societal safety in industrial processes;
  • Accident consequence modeling and environmental remediation;
  • Post-incidental analysis, legal issues and responsibility;
  • Education, training and communication of technical and environmental safety of industrial chemical processes.

This Special Issue aims to take a step forward in the integrated analysis of multi-risks related to industrial processes, including technical, environmental and societal aspects.

We welcome state-of-the-art research, perspectives, innovative models or approaches, system improvements, performance measurement, empirical studies, and applied case studies or surveys.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Paolo Mocellin
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainable processes
  • safety
  • hazards and risks
  • environment
  • industrial processes
  • integrated framework
  • industrial accidents
  • responsibility
  • prevention
  • mitigation

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Sustainable Energy Safety Management Utilizing an Industry-Relative Assessment of Enterprise Equipment Technical Condition
by Hanna Hrinchenko, Olha Prokopenko, Nadiia Shmygol, Viktor Koval, Liliya Filipishyna, Svitlana Palii and Lucian-Ionel Cioca
Sustainability 2024, 16(2), 771; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16020771 - 16 Jan 2024
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The study considers approaches to ensuring energy management for the safe operation of facilities and their equipment and ways to improve it. It has been established that to ensure effective safety management of industrial enterprises, one of the critical areas is the technical [...] Read more.
The study considers approaches to ensuring energy management for the safe operation of facilities and their equipment and ways to improve it. It has been established that to ensure effective safety management of industrial enterprises, one of the critical areas is the technical diagnostics of power equipment during operation. An assessment of the actual technical condition of power equipment of VVER-1000 power units is proposed based on establishing the aging mechanisms and determining the relative evaluation coefficients for the characteristics of individual equipment elements. The results of the calculations allowed us to conclude that the obtained results correspond to the coefficients of relative assessment Ki of the technical characteristics of the power equipment that determine its degradation. Studies indicates that when assessing the state of power equipment, it is necessary to consider the presence and impact of the following operational factors that are not considered in the design calculations: loads, high levels of mechanical stress, fatigue damage, and metal defects, which primarily indicate the presence of degradation changes. To assess the technical condition of the equipment, considering the degree of mechanical wear, 17 technical characteristics were selected to determine the aging mechanisms by signs of degradation. A mathematical model of the dependence of the relative evaluation coefficient K on changes in the operating parameters is presented, and it is noted that the most significant influence on the value of the coefficient is the temperature of the coolant at the inlet (K = 0.56). The developed approach makes it possible to improve the safety management system of power facilities by introducing the proposed model to assess the technical conditions of power equipment by defining the parameters in the overall safety management system. Full article
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Sustainable Biocomposites Based on Invasive Rugulopteryx okamurae Seaweed and Cassava Starch
by Ismael Santana, Manuel Felix and Carlos Bengoechea
Sustainability 2024, 16(1), 76; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16010076 - 21 Dec 2023
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The development of plastic materials based on cassava reduces the dependence on non-biodegradable petroplastics, and enhances the sustainability of the cassava value chain. In this sense, cassava starch (CS) is used as a reinforcer of biocomposites that also contain brown seaweed Rugulopteryx okamurae [...] Read more.
The development of plastic materials based on cassava reduces the dependence on non-biodegradable petroplastics, and enhances the sustainability of the cassava value chain. In this sense, cassava starch (CS) is used as a reinforcer of biocomposites that also contain brown seaweed Rugulopteryx okamurae (RO). RO is an invasive species whose accumulation poses a strong environmental burden in the strait of Gibraltar. Because it can be used as a biopolymer, its use in the plastics industry would promote a healthy ecosystem. Thus, RO/CS mixtures with different RO/CS ratios (from 100/0 to 30/70) were processed through injection moulding at 140 °C. The thermal properties of plastic samples have been analysed through calorimetric, thermogravimetric and rheological techniques. Moreover, the mechanical properties, hydrophilicity, and microstructure of samples have also been studied. Thus, biopolymer degradation of the composites seems to happen at 213–303 °C, as revealed by thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) of the samples, whereas an exothermic peak observed in DSC at 350–500 °C would be related to the degradation of organic compounds in anaerobic conditions. Rheological tests evidenced a softening of the RO/CS biocomposites when CS content increased in the formulation, so that elastic moduli dropped from 23.72 MPa in the 70/30 to 5.69 MPa for 30/70. However, RO/CS biocomposites became more resistant and deformable as CS content increased: maximum stress and strain at break increased from 78.2 kPa and 0.14% (70/30 system) to 580 kPa and 25.2% (30/70), respectively. Finally, no important differences were observed in their water uptake capacities or microstructures when increasing CS ratio in the mixture. As cassava starch can be extracted from agro-industrial wastes (i.e., cassava peel and bagasse), its use in biocomposites could be of great use for a more sustainable approach for plastic materials. Full article
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