experimental Risk Assessment and Management Lab

• subjectSkills

  By dealing with risk, the eRAM laboratory is interdisciplinary by vocation and, as such, capitalises skills from different engineering fields. More specifically, the skills involved in the activities of the laboratory are as follows:

  • Environmental engineering
  • Chemical engineering
  • Cognitive engineering
  • Management engineering
  • Computer engineering
  • Process engineering
  • Risk engineering
  • Safety engineering

  Dealing with experimental risk assessment, the laboratory, in addition to the aforementioned engineering skills, depending on the type of risk to be assessed, also capitalises skills in disciplinary fields other than engineering. For example, there have been capitalised skills in areas such as that of psychology and sociology (for evaluating the performance of operators), as well as that of food technologies (for the evaluation of food safety).

• subjectResearch activities

  The eRAM laboratory deals with the experimental risk assessment by exploiting immersive visualization technologies (i.e. virtual, augmented, and augmented virtual reality), simulation technologies, as well as artificial logic for identifying the critical issues and the scenarios to test.

  By assessing the risk, the possible areas of research and development are different and transversal. Among those addressed to date, there are:

  • the assessment of the risk (on product quality, on the effectiveness of maintenance, on possible effects on health, safety, and the environment) associated with the control activities of process plants
  • the automated assessment (both individual and group) of the performance of control room and field operators
  • the digital training in fire prevention (immersive simulator)

  The results that the activity of the eRAM laboratory allows to obtain are important to support the decision-making process both for decisions aimed at optimizing production processes (based on risk) and for those aimed at preventing negative externalities (health, safety, protection/security, environment).

• linkKeywords

  Additive Manufacturing

  Biochemicals

  Biofuels

  Biomass Transformation

  Carbon Capture and Storage

  Carbon dioxide

  Chemical Reaction Engineering

  Energy, Safety & Environment

  Industry 4.0

  Multi-Scale Modeling

  Natural Gas and Biogas Processing

  Plant Optimization

  Polymerization Processes

  Process Control

  Process Engineering & Manufacturing

  Process Intensification

  Process Simulation/Modeling

  Product Design and Engineering

  Renewable Fuels

  Renewable Sources

  Risk Analysis

  Risk Engineering

  Risk-based Process Systems Engineering

  Separation Processes

  Sport Engineering

  Sustainable Energy

  Sustainable Processes

  Transport phenomena

  Waste to Energy