A real-time probabilistic risk assessment method for the petrochemical industry based on data monitoring

Rui He, Jingyu Zhu, Guoming Chen and Zhigang Tian

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2022, vol. 226, issue C

Abstract: Safety is of high societal concern in the petrochemical industry. With advancing digitalization, the techniques of probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), which provide a system-level perspective for industrial risk analysis, have become increasingly dynamic. This paper provides a further advancement in this direction by proposing a risk updating method based on the dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) to incorporate data monitoring into PRA in real-time. We update the probabilistic risk for basic events in Bayesian networks based on their prior probability and the probability of their online monitoring signals exceeding the alarm threshold. The key idea behind this approach is that if the signal of a basic event exceeds the alarm threshold, the corresponding risk should increase. Otherwise, the basic event should have a low risk. The contribution in this paper is twofold. First, residual methods are developed to estimate signal probabilities exceeding abnormal thresholds. Second, a DBN model is proposed to integrate prior risk with data monitoring for risk analysis. The proposed DBN model does not require additional expert knowledge and historical accident data to define the conditional relationship between data monitoring and prior risk. The proposed approach is validated using the RT 580 experimental setup and managed pressure drilling operations.

Keywords: Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA); Dynamic Bayesian network (DBN); Data monitoring; Petrochemical industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2022.108700

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