By leveraging IoT Big Data, BPM can gain real-time physical world information to make faster and more accurate decisions, but there is a technical gap between IoT sensors and businesses. To bridge the gap, an event penetration mechanism from IoT…
The security management of information system refers to the establishment of effective protection mechanism for hardware, software and data in the system to ensure the normal operation of the system, free from accidental or malicious reasons, such…
Oil and gas pipelines are very important for fuel transportation, however leakages in them may lead to life and property losses due to the release of the energy they contain. Reliable leak detection and localization techniques that effectively…
The corrosion effect on the steel bar in reinforced concrete is one of the major issues for the durability of concrete throughout the world. The service life of each type of building structure is severely damaged by reinforcement corrosion, which…
Whether it is through crisis mapping or event simulation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a pioneering new method of emergency planning. It uses the analysis of information or data from deep learning to predict the evacuation routes, allocate…
The oil and gas industry owns expensive and widely-spread assets. Any fault in this complex transportation network may result in accidents and/or huge losses thereby triggering various environmental and economic issues. Thus, real-time monitoring and…
Within any country, the safety of the citizens is a major concern. Since LPG is highly flammable and can create dangerous situations in life. To avoid such situations, this system modifies the existing safety system of LPG leakage detection. The…
Hydrogen sulfide (h2s) leakage and dispersion from a sulfide recycle installation in different wind speeds are simulated by implementing a 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model. h2s concentrations of monitor points which represent dispersion…
Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is commonly used for heating, cooking, automotive power, and various other uses worldwide. LPG is a particularly flammable gas, and LPG leaks cause significant incidents. The cause may arise from improper installation to…
Liquefied Petroleum Gas is commonly called LPG. LPG became an unavoidable one in day-to-day life. The enormous applications include domestic applications like heating and cooking purposes and industrial applications like vehicle propellant and…
A practical automatic system called ALDS (automatic leak detection system) is presented in this paper, which is implemented for leak detection of sealed radioactive sources used for oil well logging in oilfields. This ALDS is able to accomplish the…
Oil and gas pipelines are very important for fuel transportation, however leakages in them may lead to life and property losses due to the release of the energy they contain. Reliable leak detection and localization techniques that effectively…
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has legislated and aims to be net zero emissions by 2045. Such ambitious targets have implications for the contribution of hydrogen and its storage in gas distribution networks Therefore, we need to understand…
Oil and gas pipelines are very important for fuel transportation, however leakages in them may lead to life and property losses due to the release of the energy they contain. Reliable leak detection and localization techniques that effectively…
This paper presents a risk assessment in a health IoT system by applying a methodology focused on privacy, security, safety, resilience and reliability. OCARIoT is an IoT system under development that comprehends a variety of components from the…
This paper presents an IIoT systems risk assessment methodology focused on privacy, security, safety, resilience and reliability. The methodology is composed of ten phases that comprehends the risks elements to calculate the probability of a threat…
Recent years have seen the increasing complexity of engineered systems. Complexity and uncertainty also exist in engineered systems’ interactions with human operators, managers, and the organization. Resilience, focusing on a system’s ability to…
As one of the most strategically important natural resources, crude oil can be dangerous to transport by sea. The resilience of a maritime transport network denotes the ability of the system to withstand damage and remain operational after…
Now, the demand for natural gas in all walks of life is increasing. Our country has built a large number of natural gas pipelines. The centrifugal compressor is of great significance to the smooth operation of the natural gas pipeline network. Surge…
Now, the demand for natural gas in all walks of life is increasing. Our country has built a large number of natural gas pipelines. The centrifugal compressor is of great significance to the smooth operation of the natural gas pipeline network. Surge…
Devices combining System-on-Chip (SoC) multi-core processors with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are quite well known and have been used in industrial applications, but have no track record in oil and gas subsea systems. This paper proposes a…
Decision on a strategy for effective predictive Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS), by the application of Bayesian networks, while ensuring a better preserving of the operators and installation safety in its entirety. A…
A new self-adaptive algorithm based on the frequency signal of the moving transmitter was proposed and tested by the experiment, which could identify automatically the dynamic multi-interfaces of gas/oil and oil/water in the crude oil tank, and solve…
The leakage detection system based on negative pressure wave method has been widely applied to crude oil pipelines. Aiming at its shortcomings in reducing false alarms and improving location precision, a combined Kalman filter - discrete wavelet…
On November 4, 2003, the Board of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, approved lending to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline and the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) Phase 1 oil…
Fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, are the primary sources of energy at the moment. However, oil, natural gas, and coal will run out in 53 years, 54 years, and 110 years, respectively, at present production rates. Aside from depleting…
Food waste by end-consumers is a topic that is under-studied although this is an issue that has direct and indirect consequences on greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and health. One reason for food waste in homes in the United States is the…
Automatic detection of workers wearing safety helmets at the construction site is essential for safe production. Aiming at the problem of low recognition rate caused by factors such as background and light in the automatic detection of safety helmets…
Safety assessment is one of important aspects in health management. In safety assessment for practical systems, three problems exist: lack of observation information, high system complexity and environment interference. Belief rule base with…
Due to many factors such as the construction environment, the existing tunnels still use drilling and blasting methods. The stress wave generated during the tunnel blasting process will cause some disturbance to the surrounding buildings, and…
Eco-friendly C4F7N (Perfluoroisobutyronitrile)/N2 gas mixture is now recognized as a potential alternative gas insulating medium to the most greenhouse gas SF6 used in the power industry. In order to reduce the carbon generated during the discharge…
This paper proposes a coordinated optimal dispatch model for the electricity-gas integrated energy system considering multiple reserve resources. The model takes into account the reserve resources including generator reserve capacity, energy storage…
In the past few years there is a rise in home automation systems which benefits the need for people using methods of Internet of Things (IoT). The main idea of this paper is to carry out the literature review on IoT based gas detection techniques and…
Since the commercialization of Lithium ion batteries (LiBs), strong strides have been taken to enhance the performance (power and energy density, cycle life) while reducing manufacturing cost per kWh. With the push for adoption of electric vehicles…
In underground coal mines safety of the workers always has been a concern and challenging task. Excessive humidity and high temperature can easily be formed in the underground environment which can affect the health safety of the workers…
Development of lightning protection standards for petrochemical processing and storage facilities has progressed significantly over the past 20 years. Standard requirements have become more stringent and prescriptive. Understanding of development and…
With the development of science and technology in the field of energy, the concept of Integrated Energy System (IES) has attracted more and more researchers’ attention. However, it is difficult to evaluate the reliability of the coupled energy system…
In view of the development trend of nuclear power and offshore wind power in China's coastal areas, as well as the current situation of peak shaving pressure brought by reverse peak shaving of wind power to the power grid. In this paper, according to…
With the deep interaction of power and natural gas systems, the security-constrained optimal power and gas flow (SCOPGF) is pivotal to ensure a safe operation of the integrated electricity and natural gas system (IEGS). Considering that…
Summary & Conclusions: Managing safety-critical systems in real-time, across geographically diverse multiple oil & gas installations, both offshore and onshore, is in itself a huge challenge for any corporation. PETRONAS, through its Exploration,…
In this work we present a study based on two methods D-HIGRAPH and HAZOP methods applied for the LPG storage tanks in SKIKDA refinery which is considered as the most important refinery in Algeria. Several recommendations raised from our study to…
As the main equipment for petroleum and petrochemical raw materials and products storage, storage tanks are widely used in petroleum and petrochemical companies. The safe operation of storage tank is the precondition of normal production. The tank…
The crude oil transfer process in the oil port terminal including its statistical identification is described. Potential causes and possible scenarios of oil spill accidents and incidents are analyzed highlighting oil overflow and leakage. Used Fault…
In the settlement safety assessment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tank, there are some problems, such as lack of high-value samples and uncertainty of parameters. Compared with the traditional settlement assessment method, the belief rule base (BRB)…
At present, there is no unified standard for the relative safe distance between the anchorage outside the harbor and other offshore structures, shoals, reefs, etc., and there is no specific reference conclusion in the existing research results, which…
In the recent years, industries such as aeronautical, railway, and petroleum has transitioned from corrective/preventive maintenance to condition based maintenance (CBM). One of the enablers of CBM is Prognostics which primarily deals with prediction…
Pipeline safety early warning (PSEW) systems based on distributed optical fiber sensors are used to recognize and locate third-party events that may damage long-distance energy transportation pipelines and are essential to ensure pipeline safety and…
Horizontal Directional Drill (HDD) installation of High Voltage transmission has proven practical, and in some cases, less costly than traditional overhead options. Petrochemical facilities located on waterways provide excellent opportunities for…
Energy pipelines are the backbones of global energy systems. Monitoring their safety and automatically identifying and locating third-party damage events are crucial to energy supply. However, most traditional methods lack in-depth consideration of…
The recent advancement in industrial technology has offered new opportunities to overcome different problems of stochastic driving behavior of humans through effective implementation of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Optimum utilization of driving…