Lecture: Process safety: a never-ending endeavor to securing people, energy and welfare

Lecturer: Genserik Reniers (Professor)

Time: 09:00-11:00 am, July 9^th

Avenue: A403, National Key Lab

Bio:

Professor Genserik Reniers is a world-leading expert in the field of process safety. He is Dean of the Safety and Security Science Group at the Delft University of Technology, also a Visiting Professor both at the University of Antwerp and at the KU Leuven. Dr. Genserik Reniers has served as the Chairman of the European Committee for Process Safety and Loss Prevention, Director of the Leiden Delft Erasmus (LED) Safety Research Center, Co-Chairman of the Occupational Safety Technical Committee of the European Association for Safety and Reliability, and Chairman of the European Technical Platform for Safety Education, Training, and Standardization. In addition, he serves as the Editor-in-chief of the internationally renowned SCI journals including Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries and Safety Science, and has published over 300 papers in high-quality academic journals, and has (co-)authored and (co-)edited some 30 books.

Abstract:

In this presentation, an historic overview will be elaborated and used to dive into the DNA of safety science. Process safety, as one of the domains of safety science, will be presented as an innovation-driven and creative field of science that has led to many safety-related breakthroughs. Models, metaphors, technologies, theories, techniques and tools, management approaches and what have you, have been developed by process safety scientists that are now used throughout all industries to keep things safe. Over the past seven decades, process safety gradually evolved from understanding phenomena towards anticipation, prevention and resilience of large-scale clusters. The benefits that process safety has brought in terms of people, energy infrastructure and -use and welfare, cannot be underestimated. The ongoing energy transition undeniably has a strong influence on process safety research, thus far that a transition of such research in terms of scope, inter-disciplinarity and complexity, is to be expected.

Organizer and Sponsor：Petroleum Engineering School, SWPU