Contents

About the Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Chapter 1 – Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 2 – Lifecycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Chapter 3 – Starting Point: Requirement for

FGS Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Chapter 4 – FGS Philosophy Development . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Chapter 5 – Fire and Gas Zone Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Chapter 6 – Fire and Gas System Performance Targets . . 31

Chapter 7 – Fully Quantitative Risk Analysis Approach . . 39

Chapter 8 – Semi-Quantitative Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Chapter 9 – Verifying Detector Coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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Chapter 10 – Verifying FGS Safety Availability . . . . . . . . . . 61

Chapter 11 – FGS Requirements Specification . . . . . . . . . . 65

Chapter 12 – Detailed Engineering Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Chapter 13 – Construction, Installation, and

Commissioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Chapter 14 – Site Acceptance Test (Validation) . . . . . . . . . 79

Chapter 15 – Operation and Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Chapter 16 – Management of Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Appendix A – Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Appendix B – Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Appendix C – FGS Philosophy Considerations. . . . . . . . . 101

Appendix D – Zone Definition and Categorization . . . . . . 107

Appendix E – Consequence Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Appendix F – Leak Frequency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Appendix G – Example Semi-Quantitative Approach . . . . 129

Appendix H – Analytical Geometry Formulae . . . . . . . . . . 147

Appendix I – Understanding Fire and Gas

Mapping Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Appendix J – Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177