Modelling the risk of failure in explosion protection installations
| Autor: | P.E. Moore, Gautam Mitra, Paresh Date, R.J. Lade |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Engineering
Graph theoretic Process (engineering) business.industry General Chemical Engineering Process plant Energy Engineering and Power Technology Graph theory Management Science and Operations Research Protection system Explosion protection Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Reliability engineering Control and Systems Engineering Safety Risk Reliability and Quality business Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 22:492-498 |
| ISSN: | 0950-4230 |
| Popis: | This paper proposes a new algorithm to compute the residual risk of failure of an explosion protection system on an industrial process plant. A graph theoretic framework is used to model the process. Both the main reasons of failure are accounted for, viz. hardware failure and inadequate protection even when the protection hardware functions according to speciflcations. The algorithm is shown to be both intuitive and simple to implement in practice. Its application is demonstrated with a realistic example of a protection system installation on a spray drier. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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