Human Factor: A Key Element in A Fire Safety System of Hydrocarbon Storage Tank
Title
Human Factor: A Key Element in A Fire Safety System of Hydrocarbon Storage Tank
Subject
Risk analysis
Risk assessment
Petroleum industry
Hydrocarbons
Safety factor
Accidents
Explosions
Oil tanks
Intelligent systems
Fires
Human engineering
Security systems
Electric breakdown
ALOHA
BORA
human factor
Human factors
hydrocarbons
major risk
SADT
Description
Risk analysis and assessment are extremely important in the oil sector to prevent potential risks. The objective of this work is to propose a thorough risk analysis approach with the integration of the human factor, since he is considered as a weak point of the system and a performance and safety limiter. This study is based on a combination of three tools: SADT, BORA method and ALOHA software. Each of these tools has a function in the proposed approach. Thus, SADT breaks down the studied system and determines the contribution of each component. The functions of the barriers, the success and fault scenarios and the causes of an initial event have been defined by BORA, so the consequences of safety system fault have been studied by ALOHA software. The safety system of the crude oil tank (S106) at the Skikda storage terminal in Algeria was considered as a case study. Based on the results of this research, it was determined that the function fault of a barrier in this system can produce a dangerous situation where humans can be a major cause of these faults since they contribute most of the functions of this system. The originality of this in-depth analysis is the identification of the weak points of a hydrocarbon storage tank's safety system with the integration of the human being where his role and the consequences of their error are determined. 2020 IEEE.
Publisher
2020 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Computer Vision, ISCV 2020
Date
2020
Contributor
Hammouya, Amel
Chaib, Rachid
Type
conferencePaper
Identifier
10.1109/ISCV49265.2020.9204292
Collection
Citation
“Human Factor: A Key Element in A Fire Safety System of Hydrocarbon Storage Tank,” Lamar University Midstream Center Research, accessed May 18, 2024, https://lumc.omeka.net/items/show/22980.