Optimization of Emergency Alternatives for Hydrogen Leakage and Explosion Accidents Based on Improved VIKOR

Fangming Cheng (), Zhuo Li, Chang Su, Jiao Qu, Meng Jiang, Hanzhang Ge, Linan Wang and Ziyan Gou
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Fangming Cheng: College of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Zhuo Li: College of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Chang Su: College of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Jiao Qu: College of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Meng Jiang: College of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Hanzhang Ge: College of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Linan Wang: College of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Ziyan Gou: College of Safety Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 22, 1-17

Abstract: Hydrogen leakage and explosion accidents have obvious dangers, ambiguity of accident information, and urgency of decision-making time. These characteristics bring challenges to the optimization of emergency alternatives for such accidents. Effective emergency decision making is crucial to mitigating the consequences of accidents and minimizing losses and can provide a vital reference for emergency management in the field of hydrogen energy. An improved VIKOR emergency alternatives optimization method is proposed based on the combination of hesitant triangular fuzzy set (HTFS) and the cumulative prospect theory (CPT), termed the HTFS-CPT-VIKOR method. This method adopts the hesitant triangular fuzzy number to represent the decision information on the alternatives under the influence of multi-attributes, constructs alternatives evaluation indicators, and solves the indicator weights by using the deviation method. Based on CPT, positive and negative ideal points were used as reference points to construct the prospect matrix, which then utilized the VIKOR method to optimize the emergency alternatives for hydrogen leakage and explosion accidents. Taking an accident at a hydrogen refueling station as an example, the effectiveness and rationality of the HTFS-CPT-VIKOR method were verified by comparing with the existing three methods and conducting parameter sensitivity analysis. Research results show that the HTFS-CPT-VIKOR method effectively captures the limited psychological behavior characteristics of decision makers and enhances their ability to identify, filter, and judge ambiguous information, making the decision-making alternatives more in line with the actual environment, which provided strong support for the optimization of emergency alternatives for hydrogen leakage and explosion accidents.

Keywords: hydrogen leakage and explosion accident; emergency decision making; alternatives optimization; hesitant triangular fuzzy set; cumulative prospect theory; VIKOR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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