Journal of Engineering in Industrial Research

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Risk Assessment in Petrochemical Units with PHAST

Document Type : Original Research Article

Authors

Amin Ahmadpour 1
Alireza Bozorgian 2

1 National Petrochemical Company, Petrochemical Research, and Technology Company, Mahshahr, Iran

2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Mahshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mahshahr, Iran

https://doi.org/10.48309/jeires.2024.498703.1143
Abstract
In this work, process events of a demo plant and an industrial plant were modeled, hazardous process areas were detected and alarm areas including site margin and boundaries affected by process incidents were determined. Accordingly, the site boundary should have a distance of 170 m and 339 m from the north, 185 m and 411 m from the south, 180 m and 426 m from the east, 172 m, and 453 m from the west from the equipment for the demo plant and industrial plant, respectively. Likewise, the effective boundary should be 211 m and 546 m from the north, 228 m and 553 m from the south, 223 m and 634 m from the south, and 215 m and 595 m from the west from equipment for the demo plant and industrial plant, respectively.

Keywords

Consequence assessment
Risk analysis
Petrochemical industries
PHAST software

Subjects

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Journal of Engineering in Industrial Research
Volume 5, Issue 4
Autumn 2024
Pages 228-235

  • Receive Date 08 January 2025
  • Revise Date 04 February 2025
  • Accept Date 10 February 2025

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