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Khan 1998
Abstract
This paper presents a state-of-art-review of the available techniques and methodologies for carrying out risk analysis in chemical
process industries. It also presents a set of methodologies developed by the authors to conduct risk analysis effectively and optimally.
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Keywords: Risk assessment; Hazard assessment; Quantitative risk assessment; Industrial hazard assessment; Process safety assessment
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2. Development of techniques and tools to analyse experienced personnel, even relatively untrained person-
consequences of likely accidents. Such consequence nel can use them effectively. The main limitations of this
analysis fulfills two objectives:- methodology are:
쐌 it helps in siting of industries and management of
sites so as to minimize the damage if accident 쐌 it takes a long time to develop a checklist but it yields
do occur; only qualitative results, with no insights into the sys-
쐌 it provides feedback for other exercises in accident tem. It merely provides the status of each item in
forecasting and disaster management. terms of ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.
3. Development of managerial strategies for ‘emergency 쐌 a checklist can focus only on a single item at a time,
preparedness’ and ‘damage minimization’. so it can’t identify hazards as a result of interaction
among different units or components (equipment).
쐌 it is only as good as the ability and prior experience of
the person preparing it. There is always a significant
2. Risk assessment probability of some critical item being neglected.
쐌 it is unable to identify hazard due to the type of unit
The terms hazard and risk are sometimes used inter- operation (reaction, heat transfer, storage etc.), sever-
changeably by the process/environmental engineer or ity of operating conditions (temperature, pressure),
safety personnel. However, hazard relates to the source and any mis-operation (leak or excess heat gener-
of harm, while risk is the probability of the harm being ation etc.).
experienced (Lees, 1996; Greenberg & Cramer, 1991;
Due to the above-mentioned drawbacks this technique
Khan & Abbasi, 1995a; Abbasi & Venilla, 1994; Abbasi
is not recommended for detailed risk analysis. However,
et al., 1998; Khan & Abbasi, 1998a). In the author’s
it continues to be used (Eley, 1992; Ozog & Stickles,
opinion risk may be defined as a combination of hazard
1991).
and probability of hazard occurrence, where hazard is
defined as the degree of harm to human beings, property,
society or environment. In this context risk analysis can
be defined as an exercise, which includes both qualitat- 4. HAZOP
ive and quantitative determination of risk and its multidi-
mensional impacts. HAZOP (ICI, 1974; Lawley, 1974; CIA, 1977;
Knowlton, 1976; ILO, 1988; Kletz, 1983, 1985; Free-
man, 1991; Sherrod & Early, 1991; Venkatasubraman-
3. Techniques and methodologies for risk ian & Vaidyanathan, 1994; Medermid et al., 1998) is a
assessment simple yet structured methodology for hazard identifi-
cation and assessment. It had been developed at Imperial
Several techniques and methodologies have been pro- Chemical Industries (ICI) in 1974 and later went through
posed from 1970 onwards for risk and safety study several modifications ICI, 1974; Kletz, 1985; Andow et
(Abbasi et al., 1998; Khan & Abbasi, 1998). A brief al., 1980; Knowlton, 1982, 1989; McKelvey, 1988;
review of the important ones is presented here. Montague, 1990. The basic principle of a HAZOP study
is that normal and standard conditions are safe, and haz-
3.1. Checklist ards occur only when there is a deviation from normal
conditions. It is a procedure that allows its user to make
Checklist (Balemans, 1974; Rose et al., 1978; Hess- intelligent guesses in the identification of hazard and
ian & Rubin, 1991; Oyeleye & Kramer, 1988) represents operability problems.
the simplest method used for hazard identification. A In a typical HAZOP study, design and operation docu-
checklist is a list of questions about plant organization, ments (PI&Ds, PFD, material flow diagrams, and
operation, maintenance and other areas of concern to operating manuals) are examined systematically by a
verify that various requirements have been fulfilled and group of experts. Abnormal causes and adverse conse-
nothing is neglected or overlooked. Checklist is prim- quences for all possible deviations from normal oper-
arily based on the preparers’ prior experience, but it can ation that could arise are identified for each unit of the
also be based on codes and standards (Hessian & Rubin, plant. HAZOP is considered by a multi-disciplinary team
1991; Oyeleye & Kramer, 1988). The checklist has to of experts who have extensive knowledge of design,
be maintained during the life of the project and should operation and maintenance of the process plant. To cover
be updated after each modification, and after every major all the possible malfunctions in the plant the imagination
outage when equipment is replaced or modified substan- of the HAZOP team members is guided systematically
tially. with a set of guide words for generating the process vari-
Although checklist development requires trained and able deviations. A list of guide words and their defi-
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nitions is given in Table 1. The salient features of intended, nor desirable, but is inherent in the method.
HAZOP study are: For example HAZOP is not inherently well-suited to
deal with spatial features associated with plant layout
쐌 it gives an idea of priorities basis for detailed risk
and their resultant effects. Furthermore HAZOP needs
analysis,
large inputs of time and expert manpower.
쐌 it provides first information of the potential hazards,
As the efficiency and accuracy of the study is fully
their causes, and consequences,
dependent on the experience and sincerity of the expert
쐌 it indicates some ways to mitigate the hazards,
team members, any limitaions in manpower selection of
쐌 it can be performed at the design stage as well as the
performance can seriously harm the success of any
operational stage,
HAZOP.
쐌 it provides a basis for subsequent steps in the total
McKelvey (1988), Montague (1990), Mulvihill
risk management program.
(1988), and Khan & Abbasi (1997f) have made sugges-
A number of applications of HAZOP in the chemical tions to increase the effectiveness and reliability of
process industries (CPI) have been reported in literature; HAZOP. According to them the duration of the study
Freeman et al. (1992), Sweeny (1993), Pully (1993), can be reduced drastically using automated systems to
Kolodji (1993), Shafagi and Cook (1988), Mulvihill study the commonly occurring equipment. This may
(1988), Parmer & Lees, 1987, Piccinini and Levy reduce the workload of team members and increase the
(1984) etc. efficiency and reliability of the study.
In its original, and thus far more widely used form, Inspite of its limitations HAZOP remains the most
HAZOP has some limitations; these limitations are of favoured technique for hazard identification and assess-
two kinds. The first kind arises from the assumptions ment.
underlying the method and is a limitation (perhaps
intended) of scope. The method assumes that the design 4.1. Fault tree analysis (FTA)
has been carried out in accordance with the appropriate
codes. For example, it is presupposed that the design Fault tree analysis (Parmer & Lees, 1987; Lapp &
is appropriate for the requirements of normal operating Powers, 1976, 1979; Hauptmanns, 1988)(FTA) is an
conditions. As HAZOP only tries to identify deviations analytical tool that uses deductive reasoning to deter-
from these supposedly ideal situations. mine the occurrence of an undesired event. FTA, along
The other kind of limitation is one which is neither with component failure data and human reliability data,
Table 1
Guide words and their physical significance
can enable determination of the frequency of occurrence (1991) have proposed algorithms for computer aided
of an accidental event. fault tree design and analysis, which seem to be useful.
FTA was developed in 1960s by Bell Laboratories
during the Polaris missile project. Initially it was applied 4.2. Failure mode effect analysis (FMEA)
in the aerospace industry. Later its use was extended to
nuclear and chemical industries (Lees, 1996; Green- FMEA (Lees, 1996; Greenberg & Cramer, 1991;
berg & Cramer, 1991; Lapp & Powers, 1979; CCPS, Khan & Abbasi, 1995a; MIL, 1977; Henevely & Kum-
1989; Rauzy, 1993; Cummings et al., 1983; anoto, 1981; Klaassen & Van Pepper, 1989; O’Mara,
Hauptmanns & Yllera, 1983; Ulerich, 1988; Guymer et 1991) is an examination of individual components such
al., 1987). FTA yields both qualitative as well as quanti- as pumps, vessels, valves, etc. to identify the likely fail-
tative information. ures which could have undesired effects on system oper-
FTA has the following advantages. ation. FMEA involves following steps:
1. it directs the analyst to ferret out failures deductively; 1. identification of each failure mode, of the sequence
2. it points out the aspects of the system which is rel- of events associated with it, its causes and effects;
evant to an understanding of the mechanism of 2. classification of each failure mode by relevant charac-
likely failure; teristics, including deductability, diagnosability, test-
3. it provides a graphical aid enabling those responsible ability, item replaceability, and compensating and
for system management to visualize the hazard; such operating provisions.
persons are otherwise not associated with system
Typical information required for an FMEA includes:
design changes;
4. providing avenues for system reliability analysis 1. system structure;
(qualitative, quantitative); 2. system intimation, operation, control and mainte-
5. allowing the analyst to concentrate on one particular nance;
system failure at a time; 3. system environment;
6. providing the analyst with genuine insights into sys- 4. system modeling;
tem behaviour. 5. system software;
6. system boundary;
Yllera (1988) and Lai et al. (1986) have drawn atten-
7. system functional structure;
tion to the difficulties associated with FTA. According
8. system functional structure representation;
to them FTA is a sophisticated form of reliability assess-
9. block diagrams; and
ment and requires considerable time and effort by skilled
10. failure significance and compensating provisions.
analysts. Although it is the best tool available for a com-
prehensive analysis, it is not foolproof and, in particular, FMEA is a qualitative inductive method and is easy
it does not of itself assure detection of all failures, to apply. FMEA is assisted by the preparation of a list
especially common cause failures. The accuracy of pre- of the expected failure modes in the light of (1) the use
diction is limited and depends upon the reliability and of the system, (2) the elements involved, (3) the mode
failure data of components of the fault tree. of operation, (4) the operation specification, (5) the time
In many real-world applications, it may be difficult to constraints and (6) the environment.
assign exact values to the probabilities of occurrence of FMEA is an efficient method of analyzing elements
the fundamental events. This problem is likely to arise which can cause failure of the whole, or of a large part,
in dynamically changing environments or in systems in of a system. It works best where the failure logic is
which accidents occur so frequently that reasonable fail- essentially a serial one. It is much less suitable where
ure data are not available. In the absence of genuine complex logic is required to described system failure
probability data, estimates of failure probabilities are (Lees, 1996; Klaassen & Van Pepper, 1989).
customarily supplied by personnel familiar with the In essence FMEA is an inductive method. FTA serves
operation of the system. Usually they prefer to express as a complementary deductive method to FMEA and is
their knowledge in general terms and find it extremely needed where analysis of complex failure logic is
difficult to specify the exact numerical values that are required. FMEA is good for generating the failure data
required in conventional fault tree analysis. and information at component level (Henevely & Kum-
To cope with this problem associated with the assign- anoto, 1981; Klaassen & Van Pepper, 1989. It has been
ment of exact numerical values to failure probabilities, recommended for use as a hazard identification tech-
modifications have been suggested by Lai et al. (1986); nique mainly for systems dealing with low/moderately
Rauzy (1993); Camarinpoulous & Yllera (1985) to dilute hazardous operations and the ones which cannot support
FTA’s dependency on reliability data and cut short the the expensive and time-consuming HAZOP study
time of analysis using Fuzzy mathematics. Lapp & Pow- (AIChE, 1985).
ers (1979); Hauptmanns (1988); Lapp (1991); Bossche It has been stated that FMEA can be a laborious and
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Fig. 1. Procedure for calculating the Dow Fire and explosion Index and other quantities (Lees, 1996).
6. overall index, and of blocks and examining each major item of process
7. overall risk rating. equipment in turn to assess its contribution to the index.
The main hazards considered in the index are:
4.4.3. IFAL Index 1. pool fires,
The instantaneous fractional annual loss (IFAL) Index 2. vapor fires,
was developed by the Insurance Technical Bureau 3. unconfined vapor cloud explosions,
(1981), UK, in 1981 primarily for insurance assessment 4. confined vapor cloud explosions,
purposes (Singh & Munday, 1979; Whitehouse, 1985). 5. internal explosions.
Procedure for the calculation of the index is described In contrast to the Dow and Mond Indices, the IFAL
in the IFAL Factor Workbook (Insurance Technical Index is too complex for manual calculation and needs
Bureau, 1981). It involves considering the plant as a set a computer.
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lists. After the hazards are identified, the scope of a QRA 5.6.2. Accident sequence modelling
is defined. A logical model for the installation is developed. The
The second step involves another key question: how model includes each and every initiator of potential acci-
likely is each accident? Answering this question involves dents and the response of the installation to these
quantification of the probability of each accident scen- initiators.
ario. FTA may be used for a third purpose.
The third step of consequence analysis aims to quan- 5.6.3. Data acquisition and parameter estimation
tify the negative impacts of the likely events. The conse- Parameters which must be estimated include the fre-
quences are normally measured in terms of the number quencies of the initiating events, component unavail-
of fatalities, although they could also be measured in ability and probabilities of human actions.
terms of number of injuries or value of the property lost.
The analysis of consequences in the CPI is very complex 5.6.4. Accident sequence quantification
due to the great variety of materials, chemical reactions, This step quantifies the accident sequences, that is cal-
and technologies involved. Consequence analysis is the culates their frequency of occurrence. In particular, the
aspect of QRA that is growing most rapidly. plant model built in the second step is quantified using
The last step of a QRA is to calculate the actual risk. the parameter values estimated in the third step.
This is done by estimating the areas that are at risk, and
the extent of that risk. 5.6.5. Hazardous substance release categories
Inspite of lengthy (needs a lot of time for assessment
implementation), high cost of implementation (due to the Release categories of the hazardous substance are
need of highly expert professionals of various disciplines defined in order to streamline the calculation of the
for a longer duration), and needs sophisticated tools and consequences of the accidents and the associated fre-
data, it is the most favoured and presently most fre- quencies.
quently used scheme for the risk analysis of chemical
process industries (Lees, 1996; Greenberg & Cramer, 5.6.6. Consequence assessment
1991; Khan & Abbasi, 1997c, d, e). Undesirable consequences and associated probabilities
Improvements in terms of reducing the duration of the are calculated for each release category. If the hazardous
implementation of various steps by screening the non- substance is toxic, immediate health effects can be esti-
hazardous units, cutting short the time of each step (use mated by calculation of the atmospheric dispersion of
of an already developed information base) would bring the released substance, the assessment of the dose an
down the cost of study drastically and thus makes the individual would receive at each point around the site,
study optimal in all respects (cost, duration and and by establishing a dose/response model.
reliability of results).
5.6.7. Integration of results
Integrating the models and the associated results,
5.6. Probabilistic safety analysis developed in steps 4, 5 and 6, results in the establishment
of a range of possible consequences and the associated
uncertainties.
In subsequent years Guymer et al. (1987), Popazoglou Beckjord et al. (1993) have reported a few appli-
et al. (1992), and Kafka (1991, 1993), and have proposed cations of PSA in chemical process industries. For the
a combination of different techniques for probabilistic same level of accuracy PSA takes about 50% more time
safety analysis (PSA) in chemical process industries. than QRA. Moreover, the application of PSA is limited
PSA provides a framework for a systematic analysis of to the operational stage because many of its steps (data
hazards and quantification of the corresponding risks. It acquisition and parameter estimation, and accident
also provides a basis for supporting safety-related sequence quantification) need precise operational data,
decision-making. The methodology and the procedures which are available only during operation.
followed for the PSA of a typical chemical installation
involved in handling a hazardous substance can be out-
lined in the following seven major steps (Popazoglou et 6. The present work
al., 1992) (Fig. 4).
It emerges from the foregoing review that several of
the existing methodologies are useful in conducting one
5.6.1. Hazard identification or other aspect of risk analysis. For example, HAZOP
The main potential sources of hazardous substance is a powerful technique for identifying and assessing
releases are identified and the initiating events that can hazards qualitatively, while MCAA is widely applicable
cause such releases are determined. in consequence analysis. All conventional risk analysis
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procedures require a combination of these method- to obtain, the conventional RA procedures become tedi-
ologies. As some of them-such as HAZOP-are cumber- ous, costly, and prone to serious errors (when precise
some and costly, and some other-such as FMEA,FTA- basic data is required but is not available).
require extensive reliability data which might not be easy We have tried to improve the situation modifying
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Fig. 5. Simplified block diagram showing the main steps of different risk and safety procedures.
radii (the radius of the area in which the damage would dents involving explosion and/or fire (Khan & Abbasi,
readily occur), damage to property (shattering of window 1997g). MOSEC comprises state-of-the-art models to
panes, caving of buildings) and toxic effects deal with: (i) pool fire, (ii) flash fire, (iii) fire ball, (iv)
(chronic/acute toxicity, mortality). The assessment of jet fire, (v) boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion
consequence involves a wide variety of mathematical (BLEVE), (vi) confined vapor cloud explosion (CVCE),
models. For example source models are used to predict (vii) unconfined vapor cloud explosion (UVCE), and
the rate of release of hazardous material, the degree of (viii) vented explosion. The software has been developed
flashing, and the rate of evaporation. Models for in object-oriented programming environment using C +
explosions and fires are used to predict the character- + as a coding tool. It has been made user-friendly by
istics of explosions and fires. The impact intensity mod- incorporating such features as graphics, on-line help,
els are used to predict the damage zones due to fires, ready-to-use output format, etc.
explosion and toxic load. Lastly toxic gas models are
used to predict human response to different levels of 6.5.2. HAZDIG
exposures to toxic chemicals. HAZDIG (Khan & Abbasi, 1998b) (HAZardous
DIispersion of Gases) is a computer software specifically
6.5.1. MOSEC developed to estimate the consequences (damage poten-
A software MOSEC (MOdeling and Simulation of fire tials and risks) due to release of toxic chemicals, acci-
and Explosion in Chemical process industries) has been dentally or voluntarily (Khan & Abbasi, 1997f. The
developed specifically to estimate the impacts of acci- modular structure of HAZDIG (developed in object ori-
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ented environment) enables swift processing of data and (Greenberg & Cramer, 1991; Khan & Abbasi, 1995b;
computation of result. It is also easy to maintain and up- CCPS, 1989; AIChE, 1985; WHO, 1984; Suokas, 1988;
grade. HAZDIG incorporates the latest models for esti- Popazoglou et al., 1992; Pasman et al., 1992). It often
mating atmospheric stability (Van Ulden & Hostlag, becomes necessary to conduct rapid risk assessment
1985) and dispersion (Van Ulden, 1988; Erbink, 1995; (RRA) to draw the same conclusions that a full fledged
Pasquill & Smith, 1983; Erbink, 1993; Khan & Abbasi, risk assessment would lead to, albeit with lesser (yet
1997n, b). The data needed to run the models is easy to practicable) accuracy and precision (Khan & Abbasi,
obtain and feed-properties of chemicals, operating con- 1996, 1997h, i, j; Khan et al., 1998).
ditions, ambient temperature, and a few commonly avail- We have proposed a software package, and the system
able meteorological parameters. A database containing of methodologies on which the package is based, for
various proportionality constants and complex empirical conducting RRA in chemical process industries. The
data has been built into the system. It is capable of hand- package is named MAXCRED (MAXimum CREDible
ling various types of release and dispersion scenarios: rapid risk assessment) (Khan & Abbasi, 1996). The
two phase release followed by dispersion, momentum package, coded in C + +, has the following attributes:
release followed by dispersion, dispersion of heavier-
1. it incorporates a larger number of models to handle
than-air gases, etc. The graphics option enables the user
a larger variety of situations useful in RRA;
to draw any industrial site/layout using freehand drawing
2. it includes more precise, accurate, and recent models
or using any already defined drawing tool. The contour
than handled by existing commercial packages;
drawing option has the facility for drawing various
3. greater user-friendliness;
damage/risk contours over the accident site.
4. ability to forecast whether second or higher order
accidents may occur.
6.5.3. DOMIFFECT
Most of the risk analysis methodologies deal with
accidents in a single industry, more so in one of the units
of an industry. But it is always possible that a major 7. Optimal risk analysis (ORA)
accident in one unit-say an explosion or a fire-can cause
a secondary accident in a nearby unit which in turn may We have combined the first seven methodologies
trigger a tertiary accident (Khan & Abbasi, 1997k; Pas- described above into a framework, named ORA
man et al., 1992). The probability of such domino or (Optimal Risk Analysis). ORA involves four steps: (i)
‘cascading’ effects occurring is increasing day by day hazard identification and screening, (ii) hazard assess-
with more new industries coming up in already con- ment (both qualitative and probabilistic), (iii) quantifi-
gested industrial areas (Khan & Abbasi, 1997k). cation of hazards or consequence analysis, and (iv) risk
We have developed a computer automated method- estimation. These steps of ORA and he corresponding
ology DOMIFFECT (Khan & Abbasi, 1997o) (DOMIno methodology to be used in each step are presented in
efFECT) which enables one to know (a) whether domino terms of ORA algorithm (Fig. 6).
effects are likely to occur in a given setting, (b) if they To compare the performance of ORA with the other
do what would be the likely accident scenarios, and (c) commonly used schemes we have conducted a prelimi-
what would be the likely impacts of the different scen- nary Delphi. Experts in safety engineering were asked
arios. Finally, the tool guides us towards strategies to give weightages on a scale of 0-10 to eight attributes
needed to prevent domino effects (Khan & Abbasi, of seven well-known methodologies (Table 2). After
1997o). DOMIFFECT is menu driven and interactive, second-round corrections and averaging the average
capable of the following: weightage as obtained is presented in Figs 7 and 8. Of
these Fig. 7 compares seven of the old methodologies
쐌 estimation of all possible hazards from toxic release
and Fig. 8 compares QRA with ORA. All-in-all ORA
to explosion;
appears to be ahead of the other seven methodologies.
쐌 handling of interaction among different accidental
These findings would gain firm quantitative footing only
events (generation of domino or cascading accident
after ORA has been extensively used by persons other
scenarios);
than the authors. For the present we can say that ORA
쐌 estimation of domino effect probability;
appears to be a virtuous scheme, with the following fea-
쐌 estimation of domino effect consequences.
tures:
1. it is swifter,
6.6. Rapid risk analysis: MAXCRED
2. less expensive,
3. as (or possibly more) accurate and precise.
A total risk assessment exercise covering all steps
exhaustively from beginning to end is expensive in terms The features come to view when we consider the fol-
of time as well as monetary and personnel inputs lowing:
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Fig. 6. Simplified block diagram showing various steps with techniques and/or tools for conducting optimal risk analysis.
1. Use of HIRA in ORA gives directly applicable study, but also increases the effectiveness of the
results: damage radii (radius of the area under the results by doing the computations in fuzzy probability
probability of 50% damages due to fire and/or space. The Provision for modelling the complex prob-
explosion), and the areas with high probability of lem into smaller and simpler modules further
lethal impacts. This makes it easy to screen the vari- enhances the ease and speed of computation.
ous units in terms of their risk potential. 4. Use of HAZDIG, MOSEC and DOMIFFECT (based
2. Conducting HAZOP by the computer-automated on state-of-the-art models) enables easy, fast, and
tools optHAZOP and TOPHAZOP saves about 45% reliable consequence assessment.
of the time otherwise taken by the conventional
HAZOP (Khan & Abbasi, 1997a, b). DOMIFFECT enables study of the possibility and
3. Use of PROFAT (based on a combination of analyti- likely impacts of domino effects; without such a study
cal method and Monte-Carlo simulation) saves not no risk assessment exercise can be considered complete
only computational time, and overall duration of the or ‘safe’.
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