ENGR 4355 - Industrial Safety

Credits: 3 Class: 3 Lab: 0
Prerequisite(s): Core complete, ENGR 3380 and junior standing.
Principles of fire dynamics, heat transfer and thermodynamics are combined with a general knowledge of automatic detection and suppression systems to analyze fire protection requirements for generic industrial hazards. Topics covered include safety separation distances, plan layout, hazard isolation, smoke control, warehouse storage and flammable-liquid processing and handling. Historic industrial fires influencing current practice on these topics are also discussed.