SAFETY CENTRE

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GANDHINAGAR

THE JOURNEY SO FAR

ABOUT THE SAFETY CENTRE

RESEARCH

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Modern chemical plants regularly handle large amounts of hazardous materials at ele-vated temperatures and pressures. The consequence of abnormal conditions is not mere-ly production loss but often injury to personnel or worse as was witnessed in Bhopal. Therefore continuous monitoring of the process is necessary to ensure effective and safe operation of process plants. Among the various layers of protection, the role of the hu-man operator in ensuring safe controlled plant operation is of the utmost importance. Recent studies on major process plant accidents point out various improvements needed both in control room design as well as in information flow to the operator. Research in IIT Gandhinagar focuses on the cognitive ability of the human operator to take correct and timely decisions when major disturbances occur in the chemical plant. Since the cognitive abilities of the human operator are limited it is necessary to understand the ways in which information is perceived and processed by the operator, particularly dur-ing stressful events. Recent studies on eye gaze tracking reveal the fact of eye-mind relationship in decision making. In our research, eye gaze tracking has been used to analyze the behavior of human operators during normal and abnormal operations. Our preliminary experimental studies reveal intriguing tradeoffs between operators’ speed of response and the accuracy of their decisions.

The computational modeling of a novel condensed phase aerosol based fire extinguisher is considered in this study to assess its operational details and performance. A solid pro-pellant is present inside the canister which is ignited using piezoelectric actuators pro-ducing hot fire extinguishing gases. The cooling of these hot gases is facilitated by a matrix of chemically active cooling pellets placed along the canister which condenses hot gas and discharges solid aerosol particulates. The initial experimental investigation of the extinguisher carried out at the premises of the industrial partner showed that im-proper cooling of the hot gases by the pellets can lead to high temperature of the efflu-ent gases and sparks at the exit. This provided the basis for exploring computational modelling to develop a better understanding of the physics of the extinguisher perfor-mance and to develop improved experimental procedures on the basis of the results from a computational fluid dynamics model.

Computational Modeling of the Condensed Phase Aerosol

Cognitive Engineering for Process Safety

Several research projects at PhD and Master’s level have been undertaken by Faculty, including study of human factors in process control and alarm management directed towards preventing accidents in chemical plants and design of inherently safe chemical plants. A number of under-graduate projects have also been initiated including development of an Indian Fire incident Database and development of an Android App for fire reporting.

Initial modeling efforts centered on the finite volume solution of the Euler equations modified to incorporate the essential physics of the prob-lem such as mass flow from the pellets and the heat transfer. On the basis of the computed results from this simplified model, a multi-component combustion gas flow inside the extinguisher is computed by solving high fidelity three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. While detailed chemical kinetics are not accounted for in the computation, initial experimental estimates of these processes are used in the simulations to account for the effects on dynamics of the process. The computed results show how improper cooling by the pellet region may lead to hot spots in the extinguisher & will be used to improve the experimental design.

The objective of the IIT Gandhinagar Safety Centre is to promote safety in public and private spheres, industry and the informal sector. The Safety Centre advances these objectives with activities to:

• Discover: Research projects, consultancy and project implementation. Promoting awareness and undertaking public advocacy around safe-ty.

• Teach: Introducing industrial safety courses in IIT Gandhinagar’s graduate and undergraduate curriculum.

• Outreach: Safety conferences and seminars to enable safety professionals from around the world to network and explore the state of the art and new safety technologies; as well as training programs for safety professionals.

• Practice: Training staff and students on safe working practices in all aspects of IIT Gandhinagar’s operations such as labs and event organization.

Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a not-for-profit product safety testing and certification organization is associated with IITGn since 2009. As a major supporter of the Safety Centre, UL supports various collaborative initiatives in safety-related education and research through a five-year grant. One such initiative is a series on engineering challenges on varied safety related themes. One challenge is floated each year and students are invited to propose ideas to address them. Over the years, hundreds of students, ranging from first year freshmen to 4th year seniors across various specializations have enthusiastically participated in these challenges in the ‘Ideation Phase’. An expert panel evaluates their ideas and picks eight finalists based on innovation, feasibility, application and commercial potential of the idea for the 2nd round of ‘Design and Implemen-tation’. These teams are further mentored by experts, encouraged to visit various research labs, and provided an opportunity to pursue internship at UL and other labs abroad. Through these opportunities, the students work on translating their ideas into products. These engineering challenges have birthed several labs on campus including the Fire Engineering Lab, 20 kW Solar PV Roof-top plant, PV research lab, and Electric Vehicle lab. The UL grant also generously supports several research initiatives at IITGN and participation of students and faculty at International Con-ferences.

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) - IIT Gandhinagar Collaborative Initiatives

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National Fire Database Challenge, 2010

Innovative PV Applications Challenge, 2011

Eighty IITGn students embarked upon the first UL-IITGN challenge of developing innovative ideas to address fire accidents in urban India. To obtain the necessary background students visited fire services in three major Indian cities - Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad., interacted with fire department officials, and were mentored by UL experts from India & US and by chiefs of fire service departments. The expert panel commended the work of all participants, and recommended four teams to graduate to the Conceptualization and Technology development phase. The 8 finalists — Anchit Gaurav, Adnan Ahmad Ansari, Vivek Yadav, Abhishek Umrao, Saurya Prakash Sinha, Divyank Singh, Shruti Jain and Ekta Prashnani also availed a three-week internship at UL, Chicago during summer 2010 . They were also invited to present their ideas in the International Confer-ence on Disaster Mitigation through Fire Safety and Earthquake Engineering 2010, at Ahmedabad.

Innovative photovoltaic (PV) applications with special emphasis on performance and safety issues was the theme of the Engineering Challenge in 2011. The four winning teams from the Ideation phase compris-ing Sunil Patidar, Shubham Chauhan, Divyank Singh, Abhilash Patel, U. Revanth Sandeep, Ravi Teja, Ab-hishek Kandoi and Maisum Ali Dairkee pursued in-ternship at UL Chicago and at the PV Labs of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA during the summer of 2012 .

CONFERENCES and SYMPOSIA

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An interdisciplinary “International Conference on Safety” was held at IIT Gandhinagar during Oct 12-13, 2012. The conference attracted participants from all corners of India and other parts of the globe including United States, Eu-rope, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Nearly 300 researchers, educators, safety officials, engineers, safety advocates, policy makers and consultants par-took in the event. Dr Anil Kakodar (former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commis-sion of India), Shri S. B. Mathur (Directorate General, Factory Advice Service & Labour Institute), and Dr M. Sam Mannan (Director, Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University, USA) were the keynote speakers.

An International conference on "Disaster Mitigation through Fire Safety and Earthquake Engineering" was held on Mar 29, 2010 at Ahmedabad. The conference was collaboratively organized by the Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA), IIT Gandhinagar and Underwriters Laboratory, USA. Honorable Chief Minister of Gujarat, Sri Narendra Modi, in his inaugural address, emphasized the top priority of Gujarat government on disaster mitigation since the 2001 devastating earthquake.

A two-day Symposium on Process Safety was arranged during Dec 19-20, 2013 (SPS 2013). About 115 Indian professionals including stu-dents and faculty from different University attended the symposium. The leading National and International Process Safety experts, includ-ing Prof M Sam Mannan, Director, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University; Mr Hirak Dutta, Executive Director, Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD); Dr Gopal Jayaraman, Advisor-HSE Essar Oil Ltd; Prof. S A Abbasi, Head, Centre for Pollution Con-trol, Pondicherry University; Mr G Vishwanathan, Former Deputy General Manager, Indian Petrochemicals Corporation, Vadodara; Dr Hugo Vits, General Manager, Bitumen Technology and Site & HSSE Manager Shell Technology Center Bangalore; Dr. Mimi Haryani Has-sim, Senior Lecturer, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Mr.Nageswara Rao, Site HSSE Manager, Project and Technology; S.Ganeshan, Pro-gram Director Asia Pacific Region, Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and Prof. Rajagopalan Srinivasan, Professor in Chemical Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar facilitated the event.

Safer Water Challenge, 2013 Thirty two students undertook the challenge of designing and developing a research platform for drinking water sta-tion for community use. A special seminar by Dr. T.N.V.V.Rao, Head Water Solution, UL and Mr. Ravi Sewak, Country Director, Safe Water Network was ar-ranged for the participants. Students also visited UL, Ban-galore to observe different test facilities and technologies for water purification. The two winning teams from the Ideation Phase comprising Manjot Singh, Monish Bhan-gale, Sanjit Jena, Saurabh Vaichal, Ch Suryavinay Koundinya, Rakesh Ranjan, Shubham Pachori, and Vidyanand Wagh availed a summer internship opportunity at UL Chicago.

Electric Vehicle Challenge, 2012

One Hundred and Fifty two students undertook the challenge of develop-ing an electrical vehicle platform specifically targeted at understanding safety challenges in Indian conditions. The review committee selected two teams Madan Taldevkar, Vaibhav Gandhi, Kimaya Kale, Prathamesh Bhat, Kishan Suthar, Shubham Gupta, Varun Gupta, and Shreyas Vaidya worked on transforming their designs into a working prototype. They also succeeded in transforming a conventional auto-rickshaw into a battery-operated vehicle by making minimal changes to its existing structure.

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JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS and PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES Journal Publications • Natarajan, Sathish and Srinivasan, Rajagopalan, “Implementation of multi agents based system for process supervision in large-scale chem-

ical plants”, Computers and Chemical Engineering, DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2013.08.012, vol. 60, pp. 182-196, Jan. 2014

• Rai, Durgesh C.; Jain, Sudhir K.; Murty, C.V.R. and Bansal, Dipanshu, "Large capacity reaction floor-wall assembly for pseudo-dynamic testing at IIT Kanpur and its load rating", Current Science, vol. 106, no. 1, pp. 93-100, Jan. 2014

• Ghosha, Kaushik; Ramteke, Manojkumar and Srinivasan, Rajagopalan, "Optimal variable selection for effective statistical process monitor-ing", Computers & Chemical Engineering, DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2013.09.014, vol. 60, pp. 260-276, Jan. 2014

• Jain A., Nyati P., Nuwal N., Ansari A., Ghoroi C. and Ghandi P., 2014. Pre-detection of kitchen fires due to auto-ignition of cooking oil and LPG Leakage in Indian kitchen, Fire Safety Science (Digital Archive, Published online, February 10, Final paper yet to appear).

• Mehta, R., Shah, P., Gupta, H., Bhat, P., Gandhi, V. Kale, K., Taldevkar, M., Singh, A. Ghoroi, C., Bhargav, A., Karnik, A. 2014. “Conversion of a CNG powered auto rickshaw to an electric rickshaw designed for Indian conditions," SAE International Technical Paper 2014-01-1968 (doi:10.4271/2014-01-1968).

• Kumar, Manish; Rai, Durgesh C. and Jain, Sudhir Kumar, “Ductility reduction factors for masonry in filled RC frames”, DOI: 10.1193/110512EQS322M, Earthquake Spectra, Aug. 2013

• Kolay, Chinmoy; Prashant, Amit and Jain, Sudhir Kumar, "Non-linear dynamic analysis and seismic coefficient for abutments and retaining walls", Earthquake Spectra, DOI: 10.1193/1.4000141, vol. 29. No. 2, pp. 427-451, May 2013.

• Basu, Dhiman; Whittaker, Andrew S. and Constantinou, Michael C., “Extracting rotational components of earthquake ground motion using data recorded at multiple stations”, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2233, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 451-468, Mar. 2013

• Basu, Dhiman; Whittaker, Andrew S. and Constantinou, Michael C., “Estimating rotational components of ground motion using data rec-orded at a single station”, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, vol. 138, no. 9, pp. 1141-1156, Sep. 2012

• Mondal, Goutam; Prasant, Amit and Jain, Sudhir Kumar, “Significance of interface nonlinearity on the seismic response of a well-pier sys-tem in cohesionless soil”, Earthquake Spectra, DOI: 10.1193/1.4000074, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 1117-1145, Aug. 2012.

• Srinivasan, Babji; Nallasivam, U. and Rengaswamy, R., “Root cause analysis of linear closed-loop oscillatory chemical process systems”, Industrial & Engineering and Chemistry Research, DOI: 10.1021/ie2024323, vol. 51, no. 42, pp. 13712-13731, Aug. 2012.

• Jain, Sudhir Kumar and Yadav, Siddharth, “Strong motion data from structural response recorders in Indian earthquakes”, Earthquake Spec-tra, DOI: 10.1193/1.3672977, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 77-103, Feb. 2012

• Mondal, Goutam; Prashant, Amit and Jain, Sudhir Kumar, “Simplified seismic analysis of soil-well-pier system for bridges”, Soil Dynam-ics and Earthquake Engineering, DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2011.08.002, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 42-55, Jan.2012.

• Prashant, Amit and Jain, Sudhir Kumar, “Analysis of buried pipelines subjected to reverse fault motion”, Soil dynamics and earthquake engineering, DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2011.02.003, vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 930-940, Jul. 2011

• MacRae, G. A.; Myint, U. T. and Jain, Sudhir Kumar, “Steps in earthquake proofing a country: A case study of Myanmar”, Bulletin of the New Zealand society for earthquake engineering, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 87-98, Jun. 2011

• Jain, Sudhir Kumar et al., “The possibility of site effects: The Anjar case, following the past earthquakes in Gujarat, India”, Seismological Research Letters, vol. 82, no. 1, pp. 59-68, Feb. 2011

• Jain, Sudhir Kumar et al., “A proposed rapid visual screening procedure for seismic evaluation of RC-Frame buildings in India”, Earth-quake Spectra, DOI: 10.1193/1.3456711, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 709–729, Aug. 2010

• Jain, Sudhir Kumar et al., “Seismic design of concrete gravity dams”, Current Science, vol. 97, no. 10, pp. 1407-1708, Nov. 2009

• Kaushik, H. B.; Rai, D. C. and Jain, Sudhir Kumar, “Effectiveness of Some Strengthening Options for Masonry-Infilled RC Frames with Open First-Storey”, Journal of Structural Engineering, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2009)135:8(925),vol. 135, no. 8, pp. 925-937, Aug. 2009

Papers Presented at Conferences, Symposia and Book Chapters • Sharma, Himanshu and Damodaran, Murali, "Computational modeling of a novel fire extinguisher design", in the 5th International and 41st

National Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference (FFMP-2014), IIT Kanpur, IN, Dec. 12-14, 2014.

• Sharma, Himanshu; Damodaran, Murali and Gandhi, Pravinray, "Computational modelling of the condensed phase aerosol based fire extin-guisher", in the Computational Modelling of the Condensed Phase Aerosol Based Fire Extinguisher, Chicago, US, Aug. 3-7, 2014, Paper No.: FEDSM2014-21104.

• Gupta, Ashish Kumar; Sharma, Gaurav; Heda, Shashank; Dave, Ujash; Ghoroi, Chinmay and Srinivasan, Rajagopalan, “Towards an Indian fire accident database - an android app for automated data gathering”, in National Conference on Fire Research & Engineering, IIT Roor-kee, IN, Mar. 1-2, 2014.

• Kumar, Pardeep; Barai, Samit; Srinivasan, Babji and Mohapatra, Nihar R. , “Process Model Accuracy Enhancement Using Cluster Based Approach”, in Physics of Semiconductor Devices, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03002-9_9, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 33-36, ISBN: 978-3-319-03001-2

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Papers presented at Conferences

• Mehta, Rounak; Shah, Preet; Gupta, Harsh; Bhat, Prathamesh; Gandhi, Vaibhav; Kale, Kimaya; Taldevkar, Madan; Singh, Akash; Ghoroi, Chinmay; Bhargav, Atul and Karnik, Amey, “Conversion of a CNG Powered Auto Rickshaw to an Electric Rickshaw Designed for Indian Conditions”, SAE International, DOI: 10.4271/2014-01-1968, Paper No. 2014-01-1968, Apr. 8, 2014.

• Upadhyay, Abhishek; Dighe, Aditi and Chakraborty, Arup Lal, “Rapid detection of methane, carbon dioxide and ammonia for harsh envi-ronments using tunable diode laser spectroscopy”, in International Conference on Microwaves and Photonics (ICMAP2013), ISM Dhanbad, IN, DOI: 10.1109/ICMAP.2013.6733517, Dec. 13-15, 2013.

• Jain, Akshay; Pineda, Alba; Ghoroi, Chinmay; Papadaki, Maria and Mannan, M. Sam, "Thermal decomposition of alkyl pyridine N-oxides: Thermal runway study using the Automatic Pressure Tracking Adiabatic Calorimeter (APTAC)", in International Conference on Chemical and Bio-process Engineering, NIT Warangal, IN, Nov. 17, 2013

• Ghoroi, Chinmay, “Kitchen safety per IIT-G nu unique model (In Gujarati) “, Sandesh City Life, p. 1, Apr. 12, 2013

• Jain, A., Nyati, P., Nuwal, N., Ghoroi, C., Ansari, A., Gandhi, P. D. 2013. “UL – IIT Gandhinagar, Kitchen Fire Safety System”, Interna-tional conference on Suppression, Detection and Signaling Research and Applications (SUPDET 2013), organized by Fire Protection Re-search Foundation, NFPA, February 26 - March 01, Orlando, Florida, USA.

• Upadhyay, A. and Chakraborty, Arup Lal, “ Detection of methane at 1650nm and carbon dioxide at 2004nm using tunable diode laser spectroscopy”, in 12th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS 2012), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, IN, December 9-12, 2012.

• Nyati, Prateek; Jain, Akshay; Nuwal, Nakul; Gandhi, Pravinray D. and Ghoroi, Chinmay, “Kitchen Fire Safety System”, in International Conference on Safety: Promoting a Culture of Safety, Ahmedabad, IN, October 12 - 13, 2012

• Chavan, D. S. ; Mondal, G. and Prashant, Amit, "Permanent Displacement of Nailed Soil Slopes Subjected to Earthquake Loading", in 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, PT, September 24-28, 2012

• Jain, Sudhir Kumar and Pathak, Shashank, “Intensity based casualty models: case study of Bhuj and Latur earthquake in India”, in 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, PT, September 24-28, 2012

• Jain, Sudhir Kumar et al., “Role of masonry in seismic strengthening of newly-built pharmaceutical plant buildings”, in Proceedings of the 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, PT, September 24-28, 2012

• Rai, D.C.; Jain, Sudhir Kumar. and Chakrabarti, I., “Evaluation of properties of steel reinforcing bars for seismic design”, in Proceedings of the 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, PT, September 24-28, 2012

• Basu, Dhiman; Whittaker, Andrew S. and Constantinou, Michael C., “Characterizing the rotational components of earthquake ground mo-tion”, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, New York, Technical Report MCEER- 12-0005, pp. 378, Jun. 15, 2012

• Chakraborty, Arup Lal, “Tunable diode laser spectroscopy of gases for calibration-free measurement of concentration and pressure", in 20th DAE-BRNS National Laser Symposium, Chennai, IN, January 9-12, 2012.

• Chakraborty, Arup Lal, " Current Status of Calibration-Free Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy Techniques for Industrial Gas Monitoring " in 36th OSI Symposium, Frontiers in Optics and Photonics, Delhi, IN, December 3-5, 2011.

• Jain, Sudhir K. and Naik, B Koteswara Rao, “Management for research excellence in developing countries in WTO era: a study of Indian premier technical academic institutions”, Liberalizing Research in Science and Technology: Studies in Science Policy, pp. 260-271, 2010, ISBN 978-5-904031-76-3

• Jain, Sudhir Kumar et al., "A Rapid Visual Seismic Assessment Procedure for RC Frame Buildings in India", in the proceedings of the 9th U.S. National and Tenth Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, CA, 25-29 July, 2010

• Jain, Sudhir Kumar, "Some Recent Capacity Building Activities in India towards Seismic Risk Reduction", in the proceedings of the 9th U.S. National and Tenth Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, CA, 25-29 July, 2010

• Mondal, G. and Jain, Sudhir Kumar, “Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Seismic Analysis of Soil-Well-Pier System Considering Soil Nonlineari-ty”, in the proceedings of the 9th U.S. National and Tenth Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, CA, 25-29 July, 2010

• Rai, D. C. and Jain, Sudhir Kumar, "NICEE's Role in Promoting Confined Masonry as an Appropriate Technology for Building Construc-tion in India", in the proceedings of the 9th U.S. National and Tenth Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, VA, 25-29 July, 2010

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• A Short course on “Soil-Structure Interaction: Computer Applications and Material Models” was organized during 21-24 Jan 2014. 61 peo-ple from Academia and Industry attended the workshop. Dr. Chandrakant Desai from University of Arizona and Dr Gaurav Srivatsava, Dr. Dhiman Basu and Dr. Amit Prashant from IIT Gandhinagar facilitated the event.

• A workshop on Confined Masonry was held during Feb 22-23, 2014 jointly by National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) of IIT Kanpur, Confined Masonry Network of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and Civil Engineering department of IIT Gandhinagar.

• A workshop on Fire Safety was organized during March 2-3, 2013. Nearly 150 people from all over India attended the event. Dr. Dhi (Director, Corporate Research Underwriters Laboratories, USA) & Mr. G. B. Menon (Retired Fire Advisor , NAFO) were the chief facilita-tors.

• An International Workshop on Process Safety Management was organized on October 14 & 15, 2012 and was attended by 65 national and international participants. Prof. M. Sam Mannan (Regents Professor and Director, Process Safety Centre, Texas A&M University, USA), Shri Jitendra C. Patel (Fellow of American Society of Safety Engineers, USA) and Prof. Rajagopalan Srinivasan (National University of Singa-pore) were the facilitators.

• IIT Gandhinagar, together with IIT Kanpur and Buildings and Materials Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC) New Delhi, organized an International workshop on Confined Masonry on April 17–18, 2011. Invitees from Canada, USA New Zealand, Peru, and India partook in the deliberations.

• A National Workshop on Seismic Retrofitting Policy was organized on October 22, 2010 by Prof. Sudhir K. Jain. The event was sponsored by Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council, Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India, New Del-hi.

Several short courses were organized with the main objective of imparting theoretical training and practical knowledge to professionals & bridg-ing the gap between academia and industry in perspectives of identifying challenges, perceiving problems, understanding concepts and imple-menting solutions.

WORKSHOPS and SHORT COURSES

Name of the Course Dates Facilitators

Seismic Design of Rein-forced and Confined Ma-sonry Buildings

Feb 17-21, 2014 Prof. Sudhir K. Jain and Dhiman Basu from IIT Gandhinagar, Prof. Durgesh Rai from IIT Kanpur, Dr. Juan Jose Perez Gavilan from UNAM, Mexico and Dr. Svetlana Brzev from BCIT, Canada.

Seismic Design of Earth and Rock Filled dams.

Oct 15-18, 2013 Prof. Sudhir K Jain, Dr. Ajanta Sachan and Dr. Amit Prashant from IIT Gandhinagar and Dr. Ahmed Elgamal from University of California, San Diego.

Geotechnical aspects of earthquake engineering

Mar 4-8, 2013, Feb 27- Mar1, 2012 and 5-8 March 2011

Prof. Amit Prashant, Prof. Ajanta Sachan and Prof. Sudhir K. Jain from IIT Gandhinagar and Prof. Debasis Roy from IIT Kharagpur

Seismic Design of Rein-forced Concrete Buildings

Nov 26-30, 2012 Prof. Sudhir K. Jain, Prof. Dhiman Basu, and Prof. Amit Prashant from IIT Gandhinagar, Prof. Durgesh Rai from IIT Kanpur, and Prof. Greg MacRae from University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics and Safety

Feb 18–20, 2010 Prof. Manfred Groll (Stuttgart University, Germany), Om Pal Singh (Outstanding Scientist and Secretary, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board), Prof. Kannan N. Iyer and Associate Prof. S.V. Prabhu (IIT Bombay) and As-sociate Prof. Manmohan Pandey from IITGandhinagar

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Solar Power System Installation at IIT Gandhinagar

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The institute houses a 10 kW roof-top solar photovoltaic (PV) system capable of gener-ating 15000 kWh electricity there by reducing total CO2 emissions by 28 tonnes and significantly cutting down the cost of energy to the institute. The facility was provided jointly by NTT Facilities, Inc., Japan (64 thin film module of 150W each manufactured by Solar Frontier, Japan) sand Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA), Gandhi-nagar (44 crystalline silicon modules of 230 W each, manufactured by Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd, India). The facility is also being used for collaborative research with Underwriters Laboratories.

LECTURES and VISITS AT IIT GANDHINAGAR • Lecture on “Lessons from the Christchurch earthquake 2011” by Shri Mukesh Bhandari, Chairman and Dr S. R. Uma from GNS Science,

New Zealand on Dec 20, 2011

• A delegation from Underwriters Laboratory (UL), Northbrook, USA comprising Mr August W. Schaefer (Senior Vice President) and Dr. Pravin Gandhi (Corporate Fellow), visited IITGN on Apr 18, 2011. Mr Schaefer addressed the audience on Public Safety. The delegation was given a demonstration on laboratory set-up for research on kitchen fire safety and a presentation on National Fire Database and Kitch-en Fire Safety in India by 3 undergraduate students Anchit Gaurav, Adnan Ansari, and Abhishek Umrao.

• Lecture on “Issues in Natural Circulation Based Nuclear Reactors” by Dr S K Gupta (Distinguished Scientist and Director, Safety Analysis and Documentation Division, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Mumbai) on April 8, 2010.

SOLAR POWER SYSTEM INSTALLATION AT IIT GANDHINAGAR

• Virendra Singh Panwar, Yash Pratap Singh, Vikram Alriya, Jitin Prabha, Himanshu Bikonia and Priyanka Bansal were awarded Summer Research Fellowships to work on Safety Related Projects during Summer 2014.

• Nakul Nuwal for presenting a paper at 11th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Canterbury, New Zealand during Feb 11-14, 2014.

• Rounak Mehta, for presenting a paper on Electric Vehicle at SAE International Conference at Detroit, US.

• Akshay Jain for presenting a paper at International Conference on Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering at National Institute of Technolo-gy Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India during November 16-17, 2013.

• Ashis Gupta and Gaurav Sharma to present a paper at National conference on Fire Research and Engineering (FiRE 2014) at IIT Roorkee during March 1-2, 2014.

• Akshay Jain and Pranav Bagaria for a visit to Underwriters Laboratories (UL), Chicago during July 8-19, 2013.

• Dr. Chinmay Ghoroi for a visit to Underwriters Laboratories (UL), Chicago and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Colorado, Denver during July 8-19, 2013.

• Prateek Nyati for presenting a poster at International Workshop on Fire Research at IIT Kanpur during July 31– 01 Aug, 2013.

AWARDS and HONOURS

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

• The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering (NZSEE) had inducted Prof. Sudhir K Jain as a life member for his “exceptional

services to society” and in recognition of his work in the field of earthquake engineering in India and abroad. He is the first Indian to re-ceive this honour. The recognition was conferred to Prof Jain at the NZSEE 2013 Technical Conference in New Zealand on April 27, 2013.

• Prof Sudhir K Jain had been elected as the President of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE). IAEE is an inter-national association with memberships of the societies of 56 countries.

• Prof. Sudhir Jain’s contributions in the field of earthquake engineering were also noted at the national and international level in a recent book titled Earthquakes and Engineers: An International History authored by Robert K Reitherman and published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE Press, 2012.

Faculty Involved INVITED TALKS and MEETINGS ATTENDED BY FACULTY

Faculty Involved

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• Prof. Rajagopalan Srinivasan, delivered a talk on “Where the mind is without fear” at All India seminar on Hazards in chemical Industry – Technology, prevention and remedies organized by the The Institute of Engineers (India), Gujarat State centre, during 06-07 March, 2014.

• Prof. Rajagopalan Srinivasan delivered a talk on “Uncovering Sustainability Trends in Industry Through Text Mining” at AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, during Nov 3-8, 2013.

• Prof. Rajagopalan Srinivasan delivered a talk on “Approach to Work Place Safety in Process Industries” at 5th Annual Fire Safety Council Meet during 23-24th October, 2013.

• Prof. Chinmay Ghoroi delivered a talk on “Pre-detection of kitchen fire due to oil heating” in the International Workshop on Fire Research at IIT Kanpur , UP, during July 31 – Aug 01, 2013.

• Prof. Chinmay Ghoroi delivered a talk on “ Indian chemical industries and IIT Gandhinagar Safety Centre” at Texas A&M University, Tex-as, USA, during July 26, 2013,.

• Prof.Chinmay Ghoroi along with two IITGn undergraduate Chemical Engineering students (Akshay Jain and Pranav Bagaria) visited Mary Kay O’connor Profess Safety centre at Texas A&M University during May – July, 2013 and worked on runway reactions and dust explo-sion.

• Prof. Sudhir K Jain attended UL Council meeting at Chicago during May 6-8, 2013. • Prof. Sudhir K Jain delivered Keynote address at the Conference organized by New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering at Welling-

ton, New Zeal on Earthquake Engineering in the Modern World during April 26-28, 2013. • Prof. Sudhir K Jain delivered public lectures on 'Historical Developments in India Towards Seismic Safety and the Road Ahead' in Auckland

on April 30, 2013. • Prof. Sudhir K Jain met the organizing committee of the 15 World Conference on Earthquake Engineering at Lisbon, as an Executive Vice

President of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering, during September 24-28, 2012 and reviewed preparations. • Prof. Sudhir K Jain attended the annual Meeting of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) in Memphis, Tennessee, during April

10-13, 2012. • Prof. V. Kadambi attended the Indo-US nuclear energy safety summit at IIT Bombay on September 30, 2011. • Prof. Sudhir K Jain attended UL India Fire Security and Signaling Advisory Council Meet 2011 at New Delhi on September 21, 2011. • Saurya Prakash Sinha, a pre-final year B.Tech student, gave a talk on Data Centric Approach at UL Safety Seminar in Mumbai on July 19,

2011. • Prof. Sudhir K Jain attended the 19 CAETS Convention on “Engineering Analysis and Management to Reduce Risks” in Mexico City as a

member of the delegation headed by the President of the Indian National Academy of Engineering during June 27 - July 1, 2011. • Prof. Sudhir K Jain delivered a public lecture on Confined Masonry: An Alternative Building Typology for Seismic Regions of India at Guja-

rat Institute of Civil Engineers and Architects, Ahmedabad on May 21, 2011. • Prof. Sudhir K Jain delivered lectures in the “Short Course on Seismic Design of Railway Bridges” at IIT Kanpur during May 2-6, 2011. • Prof. Sudhir K Jain delivered a talk on The Future of Product Safety in India at the 2 Annual UL India Product Safety Summit, Delhi on

April 20, 2011. • Prof. Sudhir K Jain delivered a keynote address on Seismic Safety in India: Past, Present and Future at GSDMA International Conference on

Post-Earthquake Reconstruction, Gandhinagar during April 14-16, 2011 • Prof. Sudhir K Jain attended the 63 annual meeting of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) in San Diego, USA during Feb-

ruary 9-12, 2011 • Prof. Sudhir K Jain delivered an invited talk at the International Symposium on 2001 Bhuj Earthquake and Advances in Earthquake Science

held at ISR Gandhinagar during January 22-24, 2011. • Prof. Sudhir K Jain attended meetings on Understanding Risk Conference on Innovation in Disaster Risk, organized by the Global Facility

for Disaster Risk Reduction (GFDRR) of the World Bank, and Outreach Meeting of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) at the World Bank in Washington DC (USA) during June 1-4, 2010.

• Prof Sudhir K Jain attended the World Seismic Safety Initiative (WSSI) Board of Directors' meeting at Singapore during February 20-21, 2010.

SPONSORED RESEARCH CONSULTANCY

• “Seismic design criteria for metro structures” for MEGA (Metro Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad). Principal Investigator: Prof. Sudhir K. Jain, Civil Engineering.

• “Identification of an Optimal Disinfectant for the Preservation of RO Purified Water” for "Sarvjal", Piramal Waters Private Limited. Principal Investigator: Prof Sharad Gupta, Biological Engineering.

EDUCATION and TRAINING

PRACTICE

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Curriculum Development SACHE Membership IIT Gandhinagar endeavors to develop and integrate safety related courses into its graduate and undergraduate curriculum. Elective courses currently being offered are: 1. Introduction to Fire Engineering : Introduced in the UG curriculum from 2012, this course was developed by Prof. Jim Milke (Professor and Associate Chair, Dept. of Fire Protection Engi-neering, University of Maryland), Dr. Pravin Gandhi (Director, Corporate Research, Underwriters Laboratories, Chicago) and Dr. Chinmay Ghoroi (Asst. Professor, IITGN) and was taught by Dr. Chinmay Ghoroi and Dr. Gandhi. 2. Fundamentals of Chemical Process Safety : Introduced in the UG curriculum from 2013, this course was developed by Prof. Rajagopalan Srinivasan (Professor, IITGN), Prof. Sam Mannan (Director, MKO Process Safety Centre, Texas A&M University) and Dr. Chinmay Ghoroi (Asst. Professor, IITGN) and taught by Prof. Srinivasan and Dr. Chinmay Ghoroi. In addition to the fun-damentals of Process Safety, students are familiarized with HAZOP analysis and Risk Assessment through their class project. 3. Structures Under Fire: Prof. Gaurav Srivastava from Civil Engineering has developed a course on structural design for fire. The course covers design considerations for individual mem-bers exposed to fire: structural members in tension, compression, bending; provisions in Euro-codes and IS codes to ensure fire safety; behavior of structural systems under fire; preventive/protective systems for structures. The centre is exploring the potential of developing minor courses and certificate, graduate pro-grams in industrial safety in the coming years. Several PhD and Master's research projects have been started including study of human factors in process control and alarm manage-ment directed towards preventing accidents in chemical plants and design of inherently safe chemical plants. A number of undergraduate projects have also been initiated including develop-ment of an Indian Fire incident Database, development of an Android App for fire reporting.

Field Trips For a first-hand view of how the con-cepts covered in classes translate to in-dustrial practice, students visited the Institute of Fire Safety and Disaster Management (IFSDM) in Vadodara and the Gujarat International Finance Tech (GIFT) city to observe the advanced Fire Safety systems for high-rise buildings.

IIT Gandhinagar has become a member of Safety and Chemical Engineering Educa-tion SACHE program of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). This program provides teaching material and programs that bring elements of pro-cess safety into undergraduate and gradu-ate student curriculum. This membership provides IITGN students access to a wide range of educational materials prepared by AIChE’s Centre for Chemical Process Safety.

The institute has a comprehensive Safety Management System. The Safety committee has formulated policies, developed a safety manual and conducts regular training programs for staff and students. Monitoring is a part of safety management system. It includes safety audits and inspec-tions. Regular checks are also conducted for fire safety including fire extinguishers and PPEs. The safety management system also undertakes investigations of incident and proper follow ups. The institute has two full time safety officers to oversee on-campus safety including class rooms, labs, workshops and hostels. A separate safety officer monitors construction work at new campus. The centre conducted Laboratory Safety Orientation training for students, staff and faculty on Apr 27, 2013. As a follow-up, a day-long safety training workshop was conducted for all technical staff members of IIT Gandhinagar on 4 Jan 2014. Besides lectures emphasizing the importance of safety in academic labs, the participants carried a hazard assessment of their respective labs and reported on improvements needed. The after-noon sessions provided technical and hands-on training on fire fighting and were conducted by personnel from Ceasefire industries Limited.

The centre is enforcing the following provisions to ensure safety.

• “Basic Rules of Lab Safety” has been prepared and will be provided to all the students who should affirm strict adherence to the same through an undertaking.

• Emergency contact details of all laboratory personnel made readily available and prominently displayed

• Creation of campus wide awareness through prominent display of signage about Handling Fire, Spillage and Usage of Personal Protective Equipment in laboratory at all times and Emergency contact details in case of accident, is in progress.

The centre had also lined up a series of lectures and hands-on-training sessions for all the students who will join the institute in Jul 2014.

FACULTY

Dr. Amit Prashant

Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering

Dr. Achal Mehra

Behavioral Safety, Public Advocacy

Dr. Arup Lal Chakraborty

Op�cal Fiber Sensor, Gas Detec�on

Dr. Sudhir K Jain

Earthquake Engineering, Building Safety

Dr. Chinmay Ghoroi

Process Safety, Fire Safety

Dr. Atul Bhargav

Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide Safety

Dr Rajagopalan Srinivasan

Process Safety, Systems Engineering, Design & Opera�ons Dr. Babji Srinivasan

Performance monitoring, Fault diagnosis

Dr. Pravin Gandhi (Underwriters Laboratory)

Fire Engineering

Dr. Krishnaprasad Miyapuram

Behavioral Safety, Cogni�ve Sciences, Learning & Decision making

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Dr. Gaurav Srivastava

Large dynamical systems, Behavior of structures under fire

Dr. Murali Damodaran

Fire Engineering

Dr Sharad Gupta

Bioengineering

Dr. Dhiman Basu

Earthquake Engineering, Building Safety

Safety CentreO�ce: S3/224Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar VGEC Complex, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad, Gujarat - 382424

Tel: +91-79-32459897 , +91– 7819859732E-Mail: safety@iitgn.ac.in Web: http://safety.iitgn.ac.in