Review of Process Industry Accidents Analysis towards Safety System Improvement and Sustainable Process Design

Abstract

Risk assessment is the tool for maintaining perfect safety management systems and aiding sustainable process design, with hazard identification as the critical step. This step can be executed by past accidents analysis (PAA) to achieve the mentioned objectives. Despite of available analyses, the recurring of accidents identifies the shortcomings in PAA and requires a detailed examination as reported in this review. The intensified exploration of accident information will strengthen both the safety management system at existing facilities and process designing in terms of sustainability.

Equipment‐based route index of inherent safety

“…All of these parameters can be extracted from process simulation software except flammability parameter, which is estimated using Le Chatelier's principle. Besides these parameters, toxicity is another important parameter for chemical aspect; however, the frequency of toxic release accidents is comparatively less than the fire and explosion . Therefore, this parameter has not been taken into consideration, and might be included in the future work.…”

“…Besides these parameters, toxicity is another important parameter for chemical aspect; however, the frequency of toxic release accidents is comparatively less than the fire and explosion. 28 Therefore, this parameter has not been taken into consideration, and might be included in the future work. For the equipment aspect, a few characteristics applicable for all process equipment may be engaged which include inventory, available ignition source, and part type.…”

Process equipment common attributes for inherently safer process design at preliminary design stage

“…An explosion has been identified as the most frequent accident event in the process industry, as reported in numerous accidents analysis available in the literature (Khan and Abbasi, 1999;Koteswara and Kiran, 2016;Mihailidou et al, 2012). Although for certain process equipment, such as piping and storage vessels, fire is the most frequent accident scenario (Chang and Lin, 2006;Jang et al, 2012), for an overall process plant, the explosion is the most frequent accident event (Athar et al, 2019a). Additionally, for the domino effect, it is identified by Darbra et al (2010) that the most frequent primary scenario is an explosion which is more damaging than fire.…”

Process safety management in China: Progress and performance over the last 10 years and future development

“…Statistical analysis based on databases and past incident reports can provide lessons for optimizing process systems and for strengthening process design in terms of sustainability. [18][19][20] Design of process systems should take into account the possibility of extreme weather events, with the safety triad used as a basis for effective process design. 21 Based on the findings of prior work, 22 development of an international, multilingual incident database is necessary to learn from prior incidents and improve risk management.…”

“…Incident analysis is often a part of PSM, as it is a significant component of process safety, including building incident models. Statistical analysis based on databases and past incident reports can provide lessons for optimizing process systems and for strengthening process design in terms of sustainability 18‐20 . Design of process systems should take into account the possibility of extreme weather events, with the safety triad used as a basis for effective process design 21 .…”