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Modeling of BP Texas City refinery incident by Faisal I. Khan; Paul R. Amyotte is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.
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This paper presents detailed modeling results of the BP Texas City refinery incident. Three different approaches and explosion modeling tools were used to study the event. The results predicted by all three approaches are similar and all approaches identified a hazard potential comparable to what was witnessed on March 23, 2005. This confirms that quantitative risk assessment (QRA) has the ability to model a realistic scenario, and is therefore useful in safety measure design and emergency preparedness decision making to improve overall safety performance. Had QRA been conducted during a management of change (MOC) decision-making process, personnel trailers likely would not have been sited in such close proximity to the process units. The resulting severe consequences would then not have occurred. This work also aims to emphasize the importance of QRA in process safety management. The paper presents the authors' perception of the sequence of events involved in the incident based on the published literature available at the time of writing. It also assesses potential consequences for the perceived sequence of events using a variety of consequence assessment tools. In doing so, the a
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- Author
- Faisal I. Khan; Paul R. Amyotte
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0950-4230)
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)