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Computer aided assessment of occupationally healthier processes during research and development stage

Pandian, Santha and Hassim, Mimi Haryani and Hurme, Markku (2012) Computer aided assessment of occupationally healthier processes during research and development stage. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 31 . pp. 270-274. ISSN 1570-7946

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Abstract

Each year more people die from occupational related diseases than are killed in industrial accidents. Therefore it is critical to start considering health aspect early when developing a new chemical process. In this paper, computer aided tool for assessing inherent occupational health is proposed for chemical process research and development stage. The method was developed based on the reaction chemistry data, which is the only data available at this stage. Three types of approaches were formulated to calculate the route index value using additive type, average type and worst case type calculations. The tool can be used to rank the alternative chemical synthesis routes by their health properties as well as characterize the hazard level of single process. Finally the tool was applied to six process routes for methyl methacrylate production for demonstration.

Item Type:Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:Computer aided tool, Inherent occupational health, Process design
Subjects:Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:Chemical Engineering
ID Code:33012
Deposited By: Fazli Masari
Deposited On:31 Jul 2013 05:39
Last Modified:14 Oct 2018 07:24

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