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Title
Resilience-based approach to safety barrier performance assessment in process facilities
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Abstract
The performance assessment of safety barriers is essential to find vulnerable elements in a safety barrier system. Traditional performance assessment approaches mainly focus on using several static indicators for quantifying the performance of safety barriers. However, with the increasing complexity of the system, emerging hazards are highly uncertain, making it challenging for the static indicators to assess the performance of safety barriers. This paper proposes a resilience-based performance assessment method for safety barriers to overcome this problem. Safety barriers are classified according to their functions first. The dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) is then introduced to calculate the availability function under normal and disruption conditions. The ratio of the system's availability, when affected by the disruption, to the initial availability, is used to determine the absorption capacity of the system. The ratio of the quantity of availability recovery to the total quantity of system represents the adaptation and restoration capacity of the system. The system's resilience is represented by the sum of absorption, adaptation, and restoration capacities. The wax oil hydrogenation process is used to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed methodology.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of loss prevention in the process industries. - Stoneham
Publication
Stoneham : 2021
ISSN
0950-4230
DOI
10.1016/J.JLP.2021.104599
Volume/pages
73 (2021) , p. 1-14
Article Reference
104599
ISI
000694797800009
Medium
E-only publicatie
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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UAntwerpen
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Creation 05.10.2021
Last edited 11.11.2024
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