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Time-dependent earthquake-fire coupling fragility analysis under limited prior knowledge: A perspective from type-2 fuzzy probability

Men, Jinkun (author), Chen, Guohua (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)

Earthquake-triggered fire domino scenarios (E-FDSs) arise frequently from the interaction between earthquakes and chemical installations, resulting in catastrophic multi-hazard coupling events. The complicated mutually amplified phenomena between natural disasters and chemical accidents significantly aggravates the escalation of domino...

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Risk assessment methods for process safety, process security and resilience in the chemical process industry: A thorough literature review

Bin Ab Rahim, M.S. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, M. (author), Bajpai, Shailendra (author)

This paper presents a systematic literature review of risk assessment methods in the chemical process industry (CPI), focusing on process safety, process security, and resilience. We analyzed peer-reviewed articles from 2000 to 2022 using the PRISMA methodology and identified twelve predominant methods. Our findings reveal a shift towards...

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Resilience assessment and management: A review on contributions on process safety and environmental protection

Chen, Chao (author), Li, Jie (author), Zhao, Yixin (author), Goerlandt, Floris (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yiliu, Liu (author)

Resilience assessment and management of technical systems have been increasingly important as the current applications in the process industries are becoming more complex. Several review papers on resilience management methods and applications have been published by researchers from different aspects. However, none of them put the focus on...

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Uncertainties and their treatment in the quantitative risk assessment of domino effects: Classification and review

Xu, Y. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, M. (author), Yuan, S. (author), Chen, Chao (author)

Domino accidents are typical low-frequency and high-consequence events in chemical process industries. Applying quantitative risk assessment (QRA) in domino accident assessment is challenging due to the uncertainties in the escalation process. Meanwhile, the outcomes of QRA are subject to a certain degree of unreliability due to the...

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Why do major chemical accidents still happen in China: Analysis from a process safety management perspective

Bai, Mingqi (author), Qi, Meng (author), Shu, Chi Min (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Khan, Faisal (author), Chen, Chao (author), Liu, Yi (author)

As an important consideration in the chemical industry, chemical process safety has received notable attention in China. However, catastrophic chemical accidents still occur. To better understand why accidents continue to occur, this paper presented a diagnostic analysis of 14 major chemical accidents in China from 2012 to 2022 based on...

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Modeling Multi-Fraction Coastal Aeolian Sediment Transport With Horizontal and Vertical Grain-Size Variability

van IJzendoorn, Christa (author), Hallin, E.C. (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author), de Vries, S. (author)

Grain size affects the rates of aeolian sediment transport on beaches. Sediment in coastal environments typically consists of multiple grain-size fractions and exhibits spatiotemporal variations. Still, conceptual and numerical aeolian transport models are simplified and often only include a single fraction that is constant over the model...

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Chemical process safety education in China: An overview and the way forward

Motalifu, Mailidan (author), Tian, Yue (author), Liu, Yi (author), Zhao, Dongfeng (author), Bai, Mingqi (author), Kan, Yufeng (author), Qi, Meng (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Roy, Nitin (author)

The chemical process industry (CPI) in China is developing rapidly with installations becoming more complicated and integrated to meet people's rising demands for chemical-related products. However, the fast-growing CPI has caused catastrophic consequences and bad social influence due to accidents occurred in the last decades, which has...

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Safety barriers in the chemical process industries: A state-of-the-art review on their classification, assessment, and management

Yuan, S. (author), Yang, M. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Chen, C. (author), Wu, Jiansong (author)

Barriers are used in various forms to assure the safety of chemical plants. A deep understanding of the literature related to safety barriers is essential to tackle the challenges in improving their design and management. This paper first provides an overview of the history of the development of the safety barrier concept. Subsequently, this...

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Chinese international process safety research: Collaborations, research trends, and intellectual basis

Li, Jie (author), Goerlandt, F.M.B. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Feng, Changgen (author), Liu, Yi (author)

This article presents a bibliometric analysis and mapping of the Chinese process safety research, focusing on the contributions made in core process safety journals and on the influences of international collaborations and knowledge sources on the developments of this research domain. Collaboration networks, term co-occurrence networks, and co...

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An evaluation of the information literacy of safety professionals

Guo, Y. (author), Tao, Jing (author), Yang, F. (author), Chen, C. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)

Information literacy has gradually become one of the necessary qualities in current and future safety practices. The calculation and assessment of information literacy of safety professionals is an effective way to understand their information literacy level. This paper, therefore, aims to evaluate the information literacy level of safety...

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Developing a barrier management framework for dealing with Natech domino effects and increasing chemical cluster resilience

Zeng, Tao (author), Chen, Guohua (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Men, Jinkun (author)

A domino effect triggered by a natural event (a so-called Natech domino effect) represents a typical high-impact low-probability (HILP) event, which may lead to catastrophic consequences. The presence of safety barriers could have an impact on the effects by impeding propagation patterns and mitigating potential consequences. However,...

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Novel sediment sampling method provides new insights into vertical grain size variability due to marine and aeolian beach processes

van IJzendoorn, Christa (author), Hallin, E.C. (author), Cohn, Nicholas (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author), de Vries, S. (author)

In sandy beach systems, the aeolian sediment transport can be governed by the vertical structure of the sediment layers at the bed surface. Here, data collected with a newly developed sand scraper is presented to determine high-resolution vertical grain size variability and how it is affected by marine and aeolian processes. Sediment samples...

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A STAMP-based approach to quantitative resilience assessment of chemical process systems

Sun, H. (author), Wang, Haiqing (author), Yang, M. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)

Chemical process systems (CPSs) involve complex dynamic processes. Besides, the emergent and uncertain hazards and disruptions cannot be identified entirely and prevented by conventional methods. In those situations, resilience for CPSs plays an essential role in absorbing, adapting to disruptions, and restoring from damages. Systemic modeling...

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Predicting major hazard accidents by monitoring their barrier systems: A validation in retrospective

Schmitz, P.J.H. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author)

OCI Nitrogen, one of Europe's largest fertilizer producers, is investigating the extent to which it is possible to take targeted measures at an early stage and stop the development of major hazard accident processes. An innovative model has been developed and recently explained and elaborated in a number of publications. This current paper...

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Predicting major accidents in the process industry based on the barrier status at scenario level: A practical approach

Schmitz, P.J.H. (author), Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), van Nunen, K.L.L. (author)

OCI Nitrogen wants to gain knowledge of (leading) indicators regarding the process safety performance of their ammonia production process. This paper answers the question whether indicators can be derived from the barrier system status to provide information about the development and likelihood of the major accident processes in the ammonia...

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Predicting major hazard accidents in the process industry based on organizational factors: A practical, qualitative approach

Schmitz, P.J.H. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author), van Nunen, K.L.L. (author)

OCI Nitrogen seeks to gain knowledge of (leading) indicators regarding the process safety performance of their ammonia production process. The current sub-study raises the question whether major hazard accidents in the ammonia production process can be predicted from organizational factors, also called management delivery systems. This paper...

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Determining a realistic ranking of the most dangerous process equipment of the ammonia production process: A practical approach

Schmitz, P.J.H. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author)

OCI Nitrogen seeks to gain knowledge of (leading) indicators regarding the process safety performance of their ammonia production process. The current research determines the most dangerous process equipment by calculating their effects resulting from a loss of containment using DNV GL's Phast™ dispersion model. In this paper, flammable and...

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Een praktische aanpak voor het voorspellen van majeure ongevallen in de procesindustrie op basis van de barriere status op scenario niveau

Schmitz, P.J.H. (author), Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), van Nunen, K.L.L. (author)

OCI Nitrogen aims to build up knowledge of (leading) indicators that provide insight in advance into the process safety performance of their ammonia production process. Two sub-studies have already been published in TtA. The first sub-study focused on ranking the most dangerous process units of the ammonia production process. In the second sub...

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Een praktische, kwalitatieve aanpak voor het voorspellen van majeure ongevallen in de proces- industrie op basis van organisatorische factoren

Schmitz, P.J.H. (author), Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), van Nunen, K.L.L. (author)

OCI Nitrogen aims to build up knowledge of (leading, proactive) indicators that provide insight into the process safety performance of the ammonia production process. Three sub-studies have already been published in TtA. The main question of this sub-study is whether major accidents in the ammonia production process can be predicted from...

journal article 2020

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Dynamic vulnerability assessment of process plants with respect to vapor cloud explosions

Chen, C. (author), Khakzad, Nima (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)

Vapor cloud explosion (VCE) accidents in recent years such as the Buncefield accident in 2005 indicate that VCEs in process plants may lead to unpredicted overpressures, resulting in catastrophic disasters. Although a lot of attempts have been done to assess VCEs in process plants, little attention has been paid to the spatial-temporal...

journal article 2020