Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Process Safety and Environmental Protection is published by Elsevier on behalf of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and is the official journal of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering, Part B, having covered the safety of industrial processes and the protection of the environment since 1990, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 7.9 and a rank of 30 of 183 in engineering, chemical《过程安全与环境保护》（Process Safety and Environmental Protection）由（Elsevier）代表（Institution of Chemical Engineers）出版，是（European Federation of Chemical Engineering）B 辑官方期刊，自 1990 年起覆盖工业过程安全与环境保护，2025 年影响因子为 7.9，在工程·化工类 183 种期刊中列第 30 位。

Scope

• Risk assessment and reliability engineering covers consequence analysis, uncertainty quantification, human reliability analysis and integrity management风险评估与可靠性工程涵盖后果分析、不确定性量化、人的可靠性分析与完整性管理。
• Technical safety, loss prevention and functional safety include fire and gas detection, layer of protection analysis, bowtie analysis, HAZOP and emergency response技术安全、损失预防与功能安全包括火灾与气体探测、保护层分析、蝴蝶结分析、危险与可操作性分析以及应急响应。
• Modelling and machine learning methods address release and dispersion, fire, explosion and toxic effects, often with computational fluid dynamics建模与机器学习方法处理泄漏与扩散、火灾、爆炸及毒性效应，常借助计算流体力学。
• Fire and explosion science, reaction hazards, inherent safety and inherently safer design form a further cluster火灾与爆炸科学、反应危害、本质安全与本质更安全设计构成另一组选题。
• Energy safety spans nuclear reactor protection, small modular reactors, energy storage, batteries and fuel cells, pipelines and carbon capture and storage能源安全涵盖核反应堆保护、小型模块化反应堆、储能、电池与燃料电池、管道以及碳捕集与封存。
• Environmental protection covers air pollution control, resource and waste management, water and wastewater treatment, and green technologies环境保护涵盖空气污染控制、资源与废物管理、水与废水处理以及绿色技术。
• Environmental papers must take an integrated pollution control approach and show that a treatment method does not simply shift pollution from one medium to another环境类论文须采用一体化污染控制思路，并证明处理方法不会把污染从一个环境介质简单转移到另一个介质。

History

• The journal began in February 1990 as volume 68, part B1, under the title Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Part B该刊于 1990 年 2 月以第 68 卷第 B1 期创刊，题名为《化学工程师学会会刊 B 辑》。
• It was launched as a companion to Chemical Engineering Research and Design and carries that journal's volume numbering该刊作为《化学工程研究与设计》的姊妹刊创办，并沿用该刊的卷号。
• It became the official journal of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering, Part B, in 2004该刊于 2004 年成为（European Federation of Chemical Engineering）B 辑的官方期刊。
• It is a publication of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and is produced with Elsevier under the IChemE journals partnership该刊是（Institution of Chemical Engineers）的出版物，并通过该学会与（Elsevier）的期刊合作机制出版。
• Impact factors were 6.158 in 2021, 7.926 in 2022, 7.8 in 2024 and 7.9 in 2025影响因子为 2021 年 6.158、2022 年 7.926、2024 年 7.8、2025 年 7.9。
• In 2025 it ranked 30th of 183 in engineering, chemical at the 83.9th percentile and 16th of 88 in engineering, environmental2025 年该刊在工程·化工类 183 种期刊中列第 30 位，百分位 83.9，在工程·环境类 88 种期刊中列第 16 位。

Editors

• The editors-in-chief are Guohua Chen of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Faisal Khan of the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University主编为（Hong Kong University of Science and Technology）的 Guohua Chen 与（Texas A&M University）玛丽凯·奥康纳过程安全中心的 Faisal Khan。
• Chen works on electrochemical technologies for water purification and advanced oxidation, while Khan specialises in dynamic risk and safety managementGuohua Chen 研究水净化的电化学技术与高级氧化，Khan 则专长于动态风险与安全管理。
• David Edwards of Loughborough serves as editorial consultant, and Colin Smith of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in Rugby is managing editor（Loughborough）的 David Edwards 担任编辑顾问，（Institution of Chemical Engineers）拉格比本部的 Colin Smith 担任管理编辑。
• Process safety editors include Rouzbeh Abbassi of Texas A&M University and Chi-Min Shu of the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology过程安全方向编辑包括（Texas A&M University）的 Rouzbeh Abbassi 与（National Yunlin University of Science and Technology）的 Chi-Min Shu。
• Environmental protection editors include Dominic Foo of the University of Nottingham Malaysia, Yang Hou of Zhejiang University and Bart Van der Bruggen of KU Leuven环境保护方向编辑包括（University of Nottingham Malaysia）的 Dominic Foo、（Zhejiang University）的 Yang Hou 与（KU Leuven）的（Bart Van der Bruggen）。
• The board has 123 editors and members in 32 countries, led by China with 24, followed by Italy and the United States with nine each编委会共 123 位编辑与成员，分布于 32 个国家，其中中国 24 位居首，意大利与美国各 9 位。