Otto von Guericke University, Dept. Plant Design and Process Safety (OvGU)

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Address /
Contact person

Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg, Germany
www.iaut.ovgu.de/as
Prof. Ulrich Krause, ulrich.krause(at)ovgu.de

Profile

Dept. Plant Design and Process Safety offers academic education in the fields of process safety, fire and explosion protection and hazard response. Focal points of research are risk analysis, consequence assessment, modeling and simulation in process safety, lab-scale experiments on fires, explosions and runaway reactions.

Key Business / Risk Area

Business Areas:

Energy

Environment

Health

Infrastructure & Construction

Materials/Nanotechnology

Social science & humanities

Transport

Food

Industrial Technologies

ICT

Security

Space

Other: Recycling

Risk Areas:

Risk Governance

Industrial Risk

Environmental Risks

Occupational Risks

Financial Risks

Social/Societal Risks

Health Risks

Asset Integrity Risks (RBI etc.)

Life Cycle Analysis

Standards and Regulations

Other:

Main Products / Services

Risk analysis consulting; consequence scenario studies; fluid dynamics based dispersion, fire and explosion simulation; testing for hazardous substances.
 

Key Projects
(running or just finished)

• iNTeg-Risk - Early Recognition, Monitoring and Integrated Management of Emerging, New Technology related Risks, www.integrisk.eu-vri.eu
• TIBRO - Innovative safety architecture of hazard response, http://web.fbd.uni-wuppertal.de/fbd0040/Tibro
• HYPOS - Hydrogen Power and Storage Solutions, www.hypos-eastgermany.de

Why we joined EU-VRi?

Since EU-VRi is the principal organization to promote research projects in the field of risk management and process safety on European level.