ISSN:
0009-286X
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
Quantitative risk analysis in the chemical industry. Consideration of risks on a qualitative basis is a useful, generally applied tool in safety engineering. However, attempts to quantify risk create problems. Quantifying studies have been published concrning nuclear and chemical plant, storage tanks, and port and transport facilities. At present, attempts are also being made in Germany to demonstrate that quantitative risk analysis is also possible for chemical processes. Instead of relying on past empirical values, an ab initio determination of risk from model calculations is being tried. A theoretical basis is already available for such calculations. However, practical execution and simplification of the complicated methods leads to numerous problems which are discussed in this paper. With the aid of selected examples attention is focussed on the following problems: (1) consideration of maintenance; (2) quality of starting data; (3) predictive power of weak-point analysis.
Additional Material:
9 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cite.330520207
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