About the Book
Methods in Chemical Process Safety: Method of Process Systems in Energy Systems: emerging energy systems
Table of Contents:
Preface
1. Energy Systems Analysis for Process Safety
Edison Sripaul and Faisal I. Khan
2. Advancing Operational Risk Assessment in emerging Energy Systems: Methods and Applications
Rouzbeh Abbassi
3. From Process Design to Control: Advancing Instrumented Energy System for Sustainable and Efficient Operations
Mili Bang, Komal Tripathi, Anil Gupta and Shreyas Kumar
4. Reliability-Informed Economic Assessment of Blue Hydrogen Production Design in a Low-Carbon Energy System
Ahmad Al-Douri, Katrina M. Groth, V. Kazantzi, M. El-Halwagi and N. Kazantzis
5. Pipeline repurposing for energy transition: Hazards and safety considerations
Srinivas Sriramula
6. Data Fusion and Machine Learning in Fault Detection \& Diagnosis
Syed Imtiaz
7. AI-based Prediction Models for Dispersions in Energy System Safety
Qingsheng Wang
8. Safer and Reliable AI in Energy Systems
Rajeevan Arunthavanathan and Zaman Sajid
9. Identifying Cyber Risks in Energy Systems: Challenges and Strategies
Matteo Iaiani, Alessandro Tugnoli and Valerio Cozzani
10. Cybersecurity of Energy Systems
Shreyas Kumar, Komal Tripathi and Saptarishi Das
11. Cyber-Physical Energy System Integrated Security & Safety
Hans Pasman, Ming Yang and Md Tanjin Amin
12. Cyber-Secure and Safe Operation of Renewable Energy Distribution Systems
Jaewon Kim, Le Xie, Prasad Enjeti and P R Kumar
13. Assessing Integrated Safety and Security Risks in Chemical Process Industry Cyber-Physical Systems
Genserik Reniers and Shuaiqi Yuan
14. Regulatory perspective on operational risk
Howard Pike
About the Author :
Faisal I. Khan is a Chemical Engineering Professor and Director of the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center and the Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI), Texas A&M University. He is the founder of the Centre for Risk Integrity and Safety Engineering (C-RISE), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering. His areas of research interest include offshore safety and risk engineering, inherent safety, risk management, and risk-based integrity assessment and management. Dr. Khan is actively involved with multinational oil and gas industries in addressing safety and asset integrity issues. He also served as the Safety and Risk Advisor to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He continues to serve as a subject matter expert to many organizations, including Lloyd's Register EMEA, SBM Modco, Intecsea, Technip, and Qatar Gas. He served as a Visiting Professor of Offshore and Marine Engineering at the Australian Maritime College (AMC), University of Tasmania, Australia, where he led the development of the offshore safety and risk engineering group and initiated global engagements with numerous international institutions.
Dr. Khan is the recipient of the President's Outstanding Research Award of 2012–13 at Memorial University, the President's Outstanding Research Supervision Award of 2013–14 at Memorial University, the CSChE National Award on Process Safety Management of 2014, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers award for his contribution to Health, Safety, and Risk Engineering. He has authored over 500 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences on safety, risk, and reliability engineering. He has authored five books on the subject area. He is the Editor of the Journal of Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Safety in Extreme Environment, and ASME Part A (Risk and Uncertainty Analysis). He regularly offers training programs/workshops on safety and risk engineering in various locations, including St. John's, Chennai, Dubai, Beijing, Aberdeen, Cape Town, Doha, and Kuala Lumpur. Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos is a distinguished chemical engineer and academic leader, currently serving as Director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute and holding the Dow Chemical Chair Professorship in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in the USA. He has been working at Shell Chemicals in Amsterdam. He has served as Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, directing the Centre for Process Systems Engineering. His research focuses on process systems engineering, particularly multi-parametric programming, model predictive control, and integrated frameworks for designing, opti mizing, and scheduling complex systems with applications in energy, man ufacturing, and biomedical engineering. Dr. Pistikopoulos is the lead developer of the PAROC framework and has authored hundreds of publications and several books. Professor Pistikopoulos is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, IChemE, and AIChE, and has received numerous honors, including the AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, the IChemE Sargent Medal, and the Royal Academy of Engineering’s MacRobert Award. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Chemical Engineering, underscoring his global leadership in advancing process systems engineering. Zaman Sajid is a Senior Research Engineer at the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he is also affiliated with the Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI). He also serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Texas A&M Energy Institute. His career reflects a strong commitment to safety, sustainability, and innovation in the chemical and process industries. He holds a Ph.D. in Process Engineering from Memorial University (Canada), an M.S. in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom), and an MBA in Sustainable Management from Anaheim University (United States), demonstrating both technical expertise and managerial acumen. With over a decade of research and teaching experience, Dr. Sajid specializes in systems analysis, process safety, and environmental risk assessment. His work integrates data-driven methods, artificial intelligence, and risk-based approaches to enhance the safety, resilience, and sustainability of chemical processing and energy systems. Drawing on his experience at the Ocean Frontier Institute (Canada), he plays a key role in managing the $52 million federally funded OESI program, which advances U.S. offshore energy safety. He also leads interdisciplinary projects addressing challenges in renewable energy, system safety, and advanced process technologies, emphasizing both economic and environmental advancements for the U.S. economy.
Dr. Sajid is an active researcher and leader who has published extensively in high-impact journals and presented at international conferences. He serves as a peer reviewer for leading journals and as a technical reviewer for the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Gulf Research Program (GRP), the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and international organizations, including Research Manitoba, Canada. He is a member of the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium. He serves on the editorial boards of Frontiers in Environmental Engineering, ChemEngineering, and the International Journal of AI for Materials and Design. Additionally, he is the editor of Methods in Chemical Process Safety, Volume 8. Through his research, leadership, and professional service, Dr. Sajid continues to advance innovation, safety, and sustainability in the U.S. chemical and process industries.
