Mechanical integrity of process installations: Barrier alarm management based on bowties

A Bibliometric and Visualized Overview for the Evolution of Process Safety and Environmental Protection

“…In addition, a few new research topics emerge in this period, such as catalytic degradation of organics (especially utilizing a microbial community) [ 171 , 172 ], application of ionic liquids [ 173 ], degradation and toxicity analysis [ 174 , 175 ], the application of microwave for waste treatment [ 176 , 177 ], safety of drinking water and its treatment [ 178 ], mineralization technology for pollutant emission control [ 179 ], Industry 4.0 [ 180 , 181 , 182 ], mine fires and CSC prevention [ 183 , 184 ], air leakage measurement and sealing techniques [ 185 , 186 ], risk analysis and prevention considering synergistic effects and domino effects [ 187 , 188 ], etc. It is obvious that scholars pay more attention to advanced techniques, as well as traditional methods, to conduct real-world industrial problems, for instance, catalytic ozonation [ 189 ], forward osmosis [ 190 ], photocatalytic [ 191 ], electro-oxidation [ 191 ], biochar adsorption [ 192 ], artificial neural networks [ 193 ], genetic algorithm [ 194 ], (global) sensitivity analyses [ 195 , 196 ], process optimization method (e.g., RSM, CCD) [ 197 , 198 ], bowtie analysis [ 199 ], fuzzy AHP [ 200 , 201 ], dynamic BN [ 187 , 202 ], etc., for environment protection and process safety and risk analysis.…”

Determination of the health of a barrier with time-series data: How a safety barrier looks different from a data perspective

“…The performance, or health, of a safety barrier is achieved with the assessment of the barrier's effectiveness, response time and reliability (de Dianous and Fiévez 2006, Schmitz, Swuste et al 2020. The most common approach utilized in industry is a quantitative assessment with the use of estimated values for the probabilities of failure upon demand (Bubbico, Lee et al 2020) from sources such as FARADIP (Technis 2021) and OREDA (OREDA.com 2020).…”

“…For example, hardware (physical instrumentation) barriers could utilize indicators such as reliability rates or failure rates as provided by manufacturers or with the use of a probabilities from differing distribution methods (Khakzad, Khan et al 2012, Li, Guldenmund et al 2020. When referring to the left or right side of the BowTie (fault tree and event tree, respectively), quantification of the barrier performance could be done with the use of weighted scales, based upon expert experience and interpretation (Khakzad, Khan et al 2012, Li, Guldenmund et al 2020, Schmitz, Swuste et al 2020.…”

“…This work presents a data-driven approach to dynamic risk assessment using industry software. Following the direction taken by (Schmitz et al 2020) to make a connection between incident scenarios and (preventative) barriers, we make use of data generated by an operational chemical plant to assess the performance of critical safety barriers. This work uses a BowTie as a representation of the risk space that collates specific accident scenarios and prevention barriers tied to a specific safety critical chemical process.…”

Impact of Weak Signals on the Digitalization of Risk Analysis in Process Safety Operational Environments

“…Furthermore, prior accidents have also been known to have ignored signals and alarms that might prevent the adverse incident from occurring if properly detected and monitored Taylor et al [26]. By using warning alarm indications and digitalized equipment (automatic data collection), risk engineering can also help with process evaluation and production processes and procedures Parviainen et al [27]; Paltrinieri et al [28]; Schmitz et al [29]; Sharmin et al [30].…”