Print Email Facebook Twitter Risk assessment of offshore fire accidents caused by subsea gas release Title Risk assessment of offshore fire accidents caused by subsea gas release Author Li, Xinhong (Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology; Dalian University of Technology) Khan, Faisal (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Yang, M. (TU Delft Safety and Security Science; TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management) Chen, C. (TU Delft Safety and Security Science) Chen, Guoming (China University of Petroleum (East China)) Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Date 2021 Abstract Subsea gas release is an industrial hazard that can impose fire hazards on offshore facilities near the gas surfacing area. However, risk assessment of the fire caused by subsea gas release is challenged due to inadequate recognition of the knowledge of subsea gas release mechanism and resulting hazards. At present, minimal researches involving risk assessment of offshore fire resulting from a subsea gas release were reported, and this paper is an extension of the previous works on subsea gas behavior. This paper focuses on modeling fire risk on offshore facilities due to subsea gas release. A numerical simulation is carried out using the Computational Fluid Dynamic technique of Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to analyze fire propagation characteristics and assess the impact of fire on personnel and assets. A probit model is adopted to calculate the probabilities of injury or death caused by fire hazards. This study also investigates the effect of wind speed, gas release rate and the distance between gas pool and platform on fire impacts and casualty probabilities. The present study can support safety measure design to mitigate or avoid the impacts of offshore fire events from subsea gas release. Subject Casualty probabilityOffshore facilityOffshore fireRisk assessmentSubsea gas release To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:88768dd9-b7cc-43a2-81bb-3557f4d728b6 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2021.102828 Embargo date 2022-02-08 ISSN 0141-1187 Source Applied Ocean Research, 115 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 Xinhong Li, Faisal Khan, M. Yang, C. Chen, Guoming Chen Files PDF 1_s2.0_S014111872100300X_main.pdf 19.56 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:88768dd9-b7cc-43a2-81bb-3557f4d728b6/datastream/OBJ/view