1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook
1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook
1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook
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Recommended reading<br />
Byrt, W.J. and Masters, P.R., The Australian Manager. 2nd edn,<br />
Melbourne, Macmillan, 1982<br />
Corder, AS., Maintenance Management Techniques. London,<br />
McGraw-Hill, 1976<br />
Cunningham, C.E. and Cox, W., Applied Maintainability<br />
Engineen'ng. New York, Wiley Interscience, 1972<br />
Dhillon, B.S. and Reiche, H., Reliability and Maintainability<br />
Management. New York, Von Nostrand Rheinhold, 1985<br />
Kelly, A., Maintenance Planning and Control. London,<br />
Butterworths, 1984<br />
Moss, M.A., Designing for Minimal Maintenance Expense: The<br />
Practical Application of Reliability and Maintainability. New<br />
York, M. Dekker, 1985<br />
MM756 Chemical Engineering Design 3<br />
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn<br />
Assessment: examination<br />
A first year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk<br />
Management<br />
Objectives<br />
To give students a basic understanding of the principles<br />
involved in the design of batch and continuous reactors, and<br />
to specifically study the operation of small scale batch plant<br />
as used in many Australian industries.<br />
Content<br />
Reactor design a review of chemical reaction kinematics,<br />
flow kinematics of various reactor types including batch,<br />
tubular and CSTR, temperature and pressure effects on<br />
reactor performance. Adiabatic and isothermal operation.<br />
Gas and liquid phase reactions. Heterogeneous operations.<br />
Batch processes - unsteady state operation of chemical<br />
plant with examples including batch distillation, batch<br />
drying, batch filtration, batch reactors and batch leaching<br />
and absorption, solvent extraction, ion exchange, semibatch<br />
operation.<br />
Recommended readings<br />
Coulson, J.M., Richardson, J.F. and Backhurst, J.R., Chemical<br />
Engineering, vol. 2. 4th edn, Pergamon Press, 1991<br />
Denbigh, K.G. and Turner, J.C.R., Chemical Reactor Theory An<br />
Introduction. 3rd edn, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,<br />
1984<br />
Levenspiel, O., Introduction to Reaction Engineering<br />
MM81 0 Risk Engineering Science<br />
6 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn<br />
Instruction: lectures and tutorials<br />
A second year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk<br />
Management<br />
Objective<br />
To introduce scientific principles concerning the interaction<br />
of humans with their environment and the performance of<br />
physical materials, as contributing factors to situations of risk.<br />
Content<br />
Ergonomic principles; physical environment influences on<br />
human performannce due to noise and lighting; cognitive<br />
psychology: concepts, displays and controls; error and<br />
reliability, workplace design requirements: basic<br />
anthropometry, human anatomy and physiology, injury<br />
causation due to material handling, slips, trips and falls.<br />
Material science principles nature and property of metal and<br />
polymer materials; fundamentals of corrosion; material<br />
failurre due to overload, fatigue and corrosion; mechanisms<br />
of wear and principles of lubrication.<br />
Energy principles the nature of fire; brief introduction to<br />
terminology of force, stress, pressure; application to fluid flow.<br />
Environmental principles.<br />
Recommended reading<br />
Cote, A.E. and Bugbee, P.L., Principles of Fire Protection. Quincy,<br />
Mass. National Fire Protection Association, 1988<br />
Galer, I., Applied Ergonomics <strong>Handbook</strong>. 2nd edn, London,<br />
Butterworths, 1987<br />
Sanders, M.S. and McCormick, E.J., Human Factors in<br />
Engineering &Design. 7th edn, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1993<br />
Sarkar, A.D., Wear of Metals. Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1976<br />
Sarkar, A.D., Friction and Wear. London, Academic Press, 1980<br />
Schultz, N., Fire and Flammability <strong>Handbook</strong>. New York, Van<br />
Nostrand Reinhold, 1985<br />
Stewan, D. and Tulloch, D.S., Principles of Corrosion C.<br />
Protection. London, Macmillan, 1968<br />
MM81 1 Management Practices (Health<br />
and Safety)<br />
6 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn<br />
Instruction: lectures and tutorials<br />
A second year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk<br />
Management<br />
Objectives<br />
Tto provide an introduction to the terminology and<br />
prinEiples influencing the practice of risk management in<br />
practical areas of health and safety.<br />
Content<br />
The syllabus will comprise a common subject applicable to<br />
all three streams of health and safety, plant and practice, and<br />
maintenance, followed by a subject covering specific<br />
management practice topics applicable to health and safety.<br />
Common subject loss forecasting and estimation; the<br />
structure of losss data management systems; review of risk<br />
identification principles: data surveys, work-group input,<br />
computerised data bases; data interpretation and reporting;<br />
review of risk interpretation techniques. Management<br />
program audit and assessment processes.<br />
Management practice applied to health and safety historical<br />
precepts of injury control; examples of application of<br />
Victorian legislation: acts, regulations and codes. Health and<br />
safety program principles, design and strategies; introduction<br />
to H&S program evaluation techniques.<br />
Recommended reading<br />
Allianz <strong>Handbook</strong> of Loss Prevention. 2nd edn, Berlin, Allianz<br />
Versicherungs AG, 1987<br />
Hammer, W., Occupational Safety Management and Engineering.<br />
4th edn, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice Hall, 1989<br />
Lees, F.P., Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. London,<br />
Butterworths, 1980<br />
Ridley, J., Safery at Work. 4th edn, London, Butterwonh-<br />
Heinernann, 1994<br />
Other literature to be advised<br />
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