Prof. Sandip Roy's talk

Apr 06, 2017 - 17:00

Apr 06, 2017 - 18:00

Rm. No. 118 Ground floor Chemical Engg. Dept.

Seminars

Prof. Sandip Roy Department of Chemical Engineering IIT Bombay

Abstract: The conflict between environmental sustainability and human safety versus industrial development is an elemental one for an emergent economy like India. Several national codes and regulations exist presently for controlling spatial separation between hazardous industrial facilities and neighboring developments. Despite this a number of challenges remain to be addressed which inter alia include: burgeoning demographic pressure lack of consolidated governmental policy on Land Use Planning (LUP) absence of objective industrial risk tolerability criteria and diversity within the states in terms of development levels and land use patterns. Absence of an integrated solution to these challenges has led to gradual creation of high societal risk areas over the last few decades especially contiguous to process industry hubs. While technological risk assessment can provide a point of beginning the practicable solutions to LUP in the vicinity of process industries need to take cognizance of the socio-economic predilections of the stakeholders i.e. the landowner the general populace the industry and the government. This presentation attempts to highlight how risk assessment for process industries can be effectively integrated with LUP policies to mitigate the effects of major accident hazards posed by fixed process installations while keeping in mind the industrial development priorities of the country. In particular the potential economic conflict between private and societal interests is assessed through a CostBenefit Analysis for evolving possible solutions towards socially acceptable mode of risk management. Further a mathematical model based on the well-known economic indicator Life Quality Index (LQI) is proposed in way of suggesting a possible approach to conflating industry and government strategies on public risk management. The need for accommodating the underpinning ethical imperatives grounded in Indian and Western philosophical traditions is also highlighted.Bio-sketch: Sandip Roy is presently a faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering IIT Bombay. He holds a B Tech degree from IIT Kharagpur and M.S. from State University of New York at Buffalo (USA). His research interests include Process Risk Management Supercritical Fluid Processing and Interfacial Engineering. He also works as a consultant to the process industry particularly in the area of risk management. Before joining IIT Bombay he worked as a free-lance journalist contributing to national dailies and magazines such as Business Standard and Business World. He has also been the editor of UPDATE the erstwhile R&D magazine of IIT Bombay. It is compulsory for CL702 and CL704 students.