Accident occurrence model for the risk analysis of industrialfacilities

Naoya Kasai, Shigemi Matsuhashi and Kazuyoshi Sekine

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2013, vol. 114, issue C, 71-74

Abstract: This paper describes an accident occurrence model for the risk analysis of industrial facilities. To better understand the characteristics of industrial accident data, the proposed accident occurrence model is based on a chemical reaction. The model introduces a defensive barrier, which corresponds to the activation energy in a chemical reaction, to prevent an accident. Furthermore, the uncertainty factor in the defensive barrier is mathematically derived as a gamma distribution. The analytical results for the proposed accident occurrence model indicate a Pareto type II distribution, which is the same result found by using a risk curve. Therefore, the analytical model validates the effectiveness of analyzing industrial risk with a riskcurve.

Keywords: Risk analysis; Risk curve; Pareto type II distribution; Arrhenius equation; Gamma distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.01.004

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