Quantitative Risk Assessment for Refinery Industry
Abstract
A quantitative risk assessment is widely accepted methods for safety assurance in process industry. The methods is continuosly improving by introduction of new approaches both to hazards identification and risk evaluation. This paper adresses two important aspects: 1. Selection of creditable inicidents after qualitative hazards identification which subsequently are used in individual and group risk evaluation 2. "Domino effects" understood as a subsequent chain of accidents after single hazard event. The first aspect is developed by the application of multilayer risk matrix where each layer represents risk reduction level according to typical prevention, protection and response layers met in a particular refinery installation. The second aspect is presented by guidelines on a particular chain of events occuring for the most often refinery types of the equipment (storage tanks, loading and unloading areas, reactors, pipe networks and other types of process equipment). The above aspects are illustrated by the case sudy of a HF Alkylatian Plant.
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Refinery IndustryCollections
Citation
Markowski, Adam (2001). Quantitative Risk Assessment for Refinery Industry. Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /193771.