ZHAO Jinlong, HUANG Hong, LI Cong, et al. Quantitative risk assessment in storage tank areas based on event-chains[J]. CIESC Journal, 2016, (7): 3084-3090.
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ZHAO Jinlong, HUANG Hong, LI Cong, et al. Quantitative risk assessment in storage tank areas based on event-chains[J]. CIESC Journal, 2016, (7): 3084-3090.DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20151908.
Quantitative risk assessment in storage tank areas based on event-chains
Large storage tank areas are easily involved into severe accidents because of event-chains. According to the accidental escalation's law of tank accidents
the quantitative risk assessment method based on event-chains is developed. In the method
the individual risk (IR) and societal risk (SR) are calculated based on the practical accident scenarios that may occur because of event-chains. Moreover
the principals of individual risk are introduced to determine the effective scenarios
and thus many practical scenarios will be cut down. In the paper
the lightning event chain of tank areas is taken as an example. From the result
it can conclude that some common scenarios that have obvious effects are neglected and the calculated results are conservative by using the traditional method. Moreover
the planning areas enlarge obviously as the event chains are considered. Therefore
it is essential to consider the event chain especially for big tank areas.