Papers by Keyword: Petrochemical Plant

Abstract: Traditional assessment techniques can't predict the explosion with effects of water spray system. A method of explosion simulation which based on FLACS software for Petrochemical plant with water spray were used for simulating the explosion risk of a coal gasification company’s plant. Simulation results indicate that the water spray system can significantly weaken the devices exploded consequences. This method can be used for fire protection system design and optimization of layout for petrochemical plants.

Abstract: Risk-based inspection (RBI) guideline based on API 581 provides a methodology for calculating the risks of equipment in refinery or petrochemical plant. However, there is a major limitation of its application to the petrochemical plant directly since only a representative material is considered in calculating the risk, especially in part of the consequence of failure, even though the equipment is composed of numerous materials. The objectives of this paper are to develop an enhanced RBI program to resolve shortcoming inclusive of the above issue and to evaluate the risks of equipment in petrochemical plant using the program. In this respect, the mole fractions of materials were used to fully incorporate the characteristics of different materials. The proposed RBI program consists of qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative risk evaluation modules in which toxic materials as well as representative materials were selected automatically for comparison with those in the current guideline. The RBI program has been applied to evaluate the risks of equipment in Naphtha Cracking Center (NCC) which is a typical facility of petrochemical plant. Thereby, promising evaluation results were obtained and applicability of the proposed RBI program was proven.