Fire Fighting System Modeling in Oil and Gas Waterway Terminal Based on Colored Petri Nets

Abstract

Modeling, as a means of analysis of safety systems, as well as industrial processes and related purposes, meets the demand for suitable methods. The present work aims to evaluate an adherence of the concepts of modeling and Petri nets applied to the logic and interlock strategies of a Fire Fighting System (FFS). For this purpose, a real installation was used to acquire the information, which was an Oil & Gas Waterway Terminal, located in the municipality of Coari in the State of Amazonas, Brazil, which receives, stores and disposes of oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). The analysis models and the interlocking strategies are validated with the use of the Petri nets, where are the patterns of systems to discrete events, through a method of analysis in which all the paths and states that the modeled system are simulated It can obtain, to allow from this model to study and evaluate possibilities of improvement of the system.