Fire Protection Integrity and Optimization
Abstract
The greatest challenge to fire protection engineering is the gap between codes and optimized facility design. Fire code and industrial practices provide prescriptive guidelines to mitigate the risk and control hazards. However, within the past decade new processes or methods of construction have been used and their associated hazards have not been foreseen in the current guidelines or standards. Atkins Consulting Canada Ltd. has developed a means to link process safety methods (PHA, Consequence Modeling, QRA, Facility Siting etc.) and the deterministic approach to optimize the design while also maintaining integrity of fire protection elements. This methodology focuses on risk-based (probabilistic) and performance-based (deterministic) assessment to select the most appropriate active and passive fire protection system and optimize the design. This presentation demonstrates a practical application of process safety to assess fire hazard scenarios and implementing the results in design to meet both the prescriptive legislative requirement as well as the goal of optimal safety in design.
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PresentationSubject
Fire ProtectionCollections
Citation
Sanati, Sam (2015). Fire Protection Integrity and Optimization. Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /193738.