Process safety and environmental protection

Process safety and environmental protection (PSEP) focuses on how the process industries address process safety and environmental protection in a scientific and responsible way.

PSEP contains both experimental and theoretical research, offering new perspectives on established principles. We also publish special issues throughout the year, dedicated to key themes and conferences.

The journal is available in print and online format, and is reference-linked via CrossRef. 

A sample issue is available online in ScienceDirect. For further information send your details to the journals department.

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Aims and scope

PSEP aims to be the principal international journal for publication of high quality, original papers in the branches of engineering concerned with the safety of industrial processes and the protection of the environment.

Papers showing how research results can be used in process engineering design, and accounts of experimental or theoretical research work bringing new perspectives to established principles, highlighting unsolved problems or indicating directions for future research, are particularly welcome. Contributions that deal with new developments in safety or environmental aspects of plant or processes and that can be given quantitative expression are encouraged. The journal is especially interested in papers that extend the boundaries of traditional engineering.

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Core topic areas

Chemical safety, fire and explosion

• Fires and combustion
• Explosions (including dust explosions)
• Runaway reactions
• Consequence modelling
• Oil and gas production safety
• Terrorism

Energy and alternative energy sources

• Renewable and non-renewable energy sources and storage
• Chemical and biochemical conversion of fossil fuels, biomass and waste
• Life-cycle assessment
• Energy infrastructure
• Cature and storage of carbon dioxide
• Nuclear energy
• Energy and sustainable development
• Process integration and intensification of energy processes

Human factors in design and management

• Human factors in risk analysis
• Human organizational factors in safety cases
• Quantification of human behaviour in hazard and risk identification
• Human error reduction by inherently safe design
• Process safety performance measurement
• Leading and lagging indicators

Inherent safety and plant security

• Design and development of new processes
• Design and development of new equipment
• Methodologies for ranking inherent safety
• Retrofitting inherently safer solutions: upgrading existing plant for improved safety
• Pipeline leak detection/measurement and corrosion assessment

Nuclear safety

• Waste disposal
• Design for decommissioning
• Passively safe reactor designs
• Nuclear reactor protective system reliability and risk monitoring

Reaction hazards

• Chemical thermal stability
• Thermal reaction hazards
• Influence of impurities on reaction hazards
• Development of reactivity hazard index ranking tool
• Runaway reactions (detection and mitigation)
• Compatibility/reactivity of chemicals involved in a chemical process

Risk management

• Quantified risk assessment
• Uncertainty in quantitative risk assessment
• Risk decision-making
• ALARP and cost-benefit analysis
• Integrated risk management

Sustainable technology

• Carbon footprinting
• Lifecycle analysis
• Clean technology
• Green technologies
• Renewable resources
• Sustainable process and product design
• Sustainability assessment
• Waste minimisation
• Landfill
• Contaminated land recovery
• Scrubbing, venting and flaring

Water

• Biological processes (including aerobic and anaerobic)
• Chemical processes (including adsorption and oxidation)
• Physical processes (including filtration and sedimentation)
• Membrane technology
• Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment
• Potable water treatment
• Sludge treatment and management
• Water reuse and recycling

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Special issue schedule

PSEP regularly publishes special issues, featuring papers on topics identified as being topical, emerging and fast-moving.

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Editorial board

Honorary editor:

Professor John Perkins
MASDAR Institute of Science and Technology, UAE
Email: jperkins@mist.ac.ae

Executive editor:

Professor Stephen Richardson
Imperial College London, UK
Email: s.m.richardson@imperial.ac.uk

Chemical safety, fire and explosion

Professor Martin Braithwaite
Imperial College London, UK
Email: m.braithwaite@imperial.ac.uk

Dr Andrzej Pekalski
Shell Global Solutions, UK
Email: andrzej.pekalski@shell.com

Energy and alternative energy sources

Professor Didier Lecomte
Ecole des Mines d'Albi, France
Email: didier.lecomte@enstimac.fr

Professor Chun-Zhu Li
Monash University, Australia
Email: chun-zhu.li@eng.monash.edu.au

Human factors in design and management

Miss Helen Conlin
RPS Energy, UK
Email: ConlinH@rpsgroup.com

Professor Sue Cox
Lancaster University Management School, UK
Email: scox@lancaster.ac.uk 

Inherent safety and plant security 

Mr José Lana Calvo
Enagas, S.A., Spain
Email: jalana@enagas.es

Dr David Edwards
Granherne, Russia
Email: david.edwards@granherne.com

Professor Jai Gupta
Indian Institute of Technology, India
Email: jpg@iitk.ac.in

Professor Geoff Hankinson
Loughborough University, UK
Email: G.Hankinson@lboro.ac.uk

Mr Brian Rothwell
TransCanada Pipelines Ltd, Canada
Email: brian_rothwell@transcanada.com

Ms Jill Wilday
Health and Safety Laboratory, UK
Email: jill.wilday@hsl.gov.uk

Nuclear safety

Professor Philip Thomas
City University, UK
Email: p.j.thomas@city.ac.uk

Dr Mike Weightman
Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, UK
Email: mike.weightman@hse.gsi.gov.uk

Reaction hazards 

Dr Laurence Cusco
Health & Safety Laboratory, UK
Email: Laurence.Cusco@hsl.gov.uk

Professor Rosa Nomen
Universitat Ramon Llull
Spain
Email: rnome@iqs.url.es

Risk management

Mr Richard Gowland
European Process Safety Centre, UK
Email: Rtgowland@aol.com

Dr Sam Mannan
Texas A&M University, USA
Email: mannan@tamu.edu

Sustainable technology

Professor Adisa Azapagic
University of Manchester, UK
Email: adisa.azapagic@manchester.ac.uk

Professor Roland Clift
University of Surrey, UK
Email: r.clift@surrey.ac.uk

Professor Barry Crittenden
University of Bath, UK
Email: b.d.crittenden@bath.ac.uk

Dr Stephen Etheridge
Asia Biogas Company Limited, Thailand
Email: spe@asiabiogas.com

Professor Willhelm Höflinger
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Email: whoeflin@mail.zserv.tuwien.ac.at

Professor Markus Reuter
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Email: m.a.reuter@city.tudelft.nl

Professor Paul Sharratt
University of Manchester, UK
Email: paul.sharratt@manchester.ac.uk

Mr Bob Skelton
University of Cambridge, UK
Email: rls1@cheng.cam.ac.uk

Professor Po-Lock Yue
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Email: keplyue@ust.hk

Water

Professor Akiyoshi Sakoda
University of Tokyo, Japan
email: sakoda@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Professor Andrew Shilton
Massey University, New Zealand
email: a.n.shilton@massey.ac.nz

Professor Tom Stephenson
Cranfield University, UK
Email: t.stephenson@cranfield.ac.uk