Strategies for the quantification of thermally initiated cascade effects

Quantitative assessment of safety barrier performance in the prevention of domino scenarios triggered by fire

“…Domino accident scenarios triggered by the escalation of fires were responsible of severe accidents that affected the chemical and process industry [1][2][3][4][5]. Past accident data analysis confirmed that in more than half of the industrial accidents involving a domino effect occurred in the past fifty years escalation was triggered by a primary fire.…”

Quantitative Assessment of Risk Caused by Domino Accidents

“…Bagster and Pitblado, 1991;Gledhill and Lines, 1998;Latha et al, 1992;Morris et al, 1994;Pettitt et al, 1993). Most of these methods, which had extreme importance at the time they were developed to allow at least a preliminary quantitative assessment of domino effects in risk assessment and safety studies, are now outdated.…”

“…Bagster and Pitblado (1991) described an approach for the inclusion of domino events in risk assessment, by considering it as an external event in a fault tree and increasing the frequencies of corresponding incidents. Several other studies followed after 1995, mainly concerned with methodologies for domino assessment (Contini et al, 1996;Gledhill and Lines, 1998) and focusing on specific issues such as escalation frequency assessment (Pettitt et al, 1993) and escalation triggered by fires (Latha et al, 1992;Morris et al, 1994).…”

Application of domino effect quantitative risk assessment to an extended industrial area

“…Several simplified models are available (Bagster & Pitblado, 1991;Cozzani & Zanelli, 2001;Khan & Abbasi, 1998;Latha, Gautam, & Raghavan, 1992;Pettitt, Schumacher, & Seeley, 1993;Reniers, Dullaert, Ale, & Soudan, 2005). Nevertheless, safety distances or threshold values for the damage to equipment are currently used for preliminary assessments.…”