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Accident scenarios triggered by lightning strike on atmospheric storage tanks
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In this article, a case study focused on the identification of event sequences and accident scenarios following lightning impact on atmospheric tanks is presented, where reference event trees, validated using past accident analysis, are provided to describe the specific accident chains identified, accounting for reference protection and mitigation safety barriers.About:
This article is published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety.The article was published on 2014-07-01. It has received 68 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lightning strike & Accident analysis.read more
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Towards dynamic risk analysis: A review of the risk assessment approach and its limitations in the chemical process industry
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the progress of risk assessment during the last decades is presented, which offers an overview on its recent advancements and possible future direction for chemical and process industries.
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The future of risk assessment
Enrico Zio,Enrico Zio +1 more
TL;DR: This paper swings on the rapid changes and innovations that the World that the authors live in is experiencing, and analyze them with respect to the challenges that these pose to the field of risk assessment.
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Quantitative assessment of safety barrier performance in the prevention of domino scenarios triggered by fire
TL;DR: A LOPA (layer of protection analysis) based methodology, aimed at the definition and quantification of safety barrier performance in the prevention of escalation was developed and data on the more common types of safety barriers were obtained.
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Risk evaluation of oil and natural gas pipelines due to natural hazards using fuzzy fault tree analysis
TL;DR: The proposed FFTA framework was used to analyze the occurrence of top event even in the absence of historical probability data, and the results are expected to be helpful to the safety professionals while making decisions related to the risk management of oil and gas pipelines.
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Application of dynamic Bayesian network to performance assessment of fire protection systems during domino effects
TL;DR: The dynamic evolution of fire protection systems has been investigated qualitatively using event tree analysis and a dynamic Bayesian network methodology has been developed to quantify the temporal changes and their impact on the escalation of fire domino effects.
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Loss prevention in the process industries
TL;DR: In this paper, loss prevention in the process industries, loss prevention for process industries is discussed, and loss prevention is discussed in terms of process process process industries and process process processes.
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A study of storage tank accidents
James I. Chang,Cheng-Chung Lin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a Fishbone Diagram is applied to analyze the causes that lead to storage tank accidents and corrective actions are also provided to help operating engineers handling similar situations in the future.
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Loss prevention in the process industries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method for measuring the performance of a single node in a set of images.ING and INDEXING, e.g., this article.
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ARAMIS project: a comprehensive methodology for the identification of reference accident scenarios in process industries.
TL;DR: The work carried out in the part of the project devoted to the definition of accident scenarios, which is the building of a methodology for the identification of major accident hazards (MIMAH), and an application on an ethylene oxide storage.
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An Improved Procedure for the Assessment of Overhead Line Indirect Lightning Performance and Its Comparison with the IEEE Std. 1410 Method
TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with the assessment of the lightning performance of distribution lines, namely the estimation of the annual number of lightning-induced flashovers versus the critical flashover voltage of the line insulators.