Sustainable Safety Science and Engineering for Chemical Industry

Dear Colleagues,

The chemical industry is a topical process industry based on production through physical and/or chemical changes. From a safety viewpoint, the characteristics of the chemical industry are numerous hazardous materials with strict operating conditions. If there are safety loopholes, they will easily have catastrophic consequences for personnel, the environment, and property. To prevent loss in the chemical industry, the related study of sustainable safety science and engineering is fundamentally essential along with the emergence of new scientific and technic problems. These include the following:

1) Modeling the complexity of the chemical process;

2) The prediction of the allowable temperature, pressure of process equipment;

3) Online risk assessment for an operating unit with variables like temperature, pressure, level, flow rate, the concentration of hazardous materials, and the allowable temperature and pressure of equipment;

4) Online risk evolution and assessment of various series of operating units;

5) Online risk reduction through the protection of multiple layers.

To further keep the process’s physical safety of chemical manufacturing, the cyber security of A/D (Analog-to-Digit), D/D (Digit-to-Digit), and D/A (Digit-to-Analog) also needs to be tsken into consideration, especially the online integrated cyber–physical safety–security risk assessment and reduction with multiple cyber–physical protection layers.

Therefore, we put forward a Special Issue, “Sustainable Safety Science and Engineering for Chemical Industry". And we hope that the research findings will help the research community highlight the latest advances in the field of chemical safety science and engineering, and outline possible issues that need to be further explored to better provide a solid scientific basis and technological support for global sustainable safety.

Dr. Zhan Dou
Prof. Dr. Lei Ni
Dr. Qianlin Wang
Dr. Xu Diao
Guest Editors

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