Dynamic Risk Analysis in the Chemical and Petroleum Industry by Paltrinieri, Nicola; Khan, Faisal Irshad;

Long description:

Dynamic Risk Analysis in the Chemical and Petroleum Industry focuses on bridging the gap between research and industry by responding to the following questions:

• What are the most relevant developments of risk analysis?
• How can these studies help industry in the prevention of major accidents?

Paltrinieri and Khan provide support for professionals who plan to improve risk analysis by introducing innovative techniques and exploiting the potential of data share and process technologies. This concrete reference within an ever-growing variety of innovations will be most helpful to process safety managers, HSE managers, safety engineers and safety engineering students.

This book is divided into four parts. The Introduction provides an overview of the state-of-the-art risk analysis methods and the most up-to-date popular definitions of accident scenarios. The second section on Dynamic Risk Analysis shows the dynamic evolution of risk analysis and covers Hazard Identification, Frequency Analysis, Consequence Analysis and Establishing the Risk Picture. The third section on Interaction with Parallel Disciplines illustrates the interaction between risk analysis and other disciplines from parallel fields, such as the nuclear, the economic and the financial sectors. The final section on Dynamic Risk Management addresses risk management, which may dynamically learn from itself and improve in a spiral process leading to a resilient system.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Introduction
1. A short overview of risk analysis background and recent developments
2. New definitions of old issues and need for continuous improvement

Part II: Dynamic Risk Analysis
Sub-section 1: Hazard Identification
3. Advanced techniques for dynamic hazard identification
4. Dynamic hazard identification: tutorial and examples

Sub-section 2: Frequency Analysis
4. Reactive approaches of probability update based on Bayesian inference
5. Proactive approaches of dynamic risk assessment based on indicators
6. Coupling of reactive and proactive approaches: tutorials and examples
7. Comparison and complementarity between reactive and proactive approaches

Sub-section 3: Consequence Analysis
8. Dynamic consequence analysis through Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling
9. Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling: tutorial and examples
10. Assessing the severity of thermal hazards
11. Thermal hazard assessment: tutorial and examples

Sub-section 4: Establishing the Risk Picture
12. Risk metrics and dynamic risk visualization

Part III: Interaction with Parallel Disciplines
Sub-section 1: Humans
13. Human Reliability Analysis: from the nuclear to the petroleum sector
14. HRA in the petroleum industry: tutorial and examples

Sub-section 2: Costs and Benefits
15. Cost-Benefit Analysis of safety measures
16. Cost-Benefit Analysis for low-probability high-impact risks: tutorial and examples

Sub-section 3: Reputation
17. Reputational damage following major accidents
18. Estimation of major accident reputational damage: tutorial and examples

Part IV: Dynamic Risk Management
19. Dynamic Risk Management in the perspective of a resilient system