Enhancement of Inherent Safety in Chemical Industry
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The paper discusses the enhancement of inherent safety by index methods. The aim is to study, how well the safety index methods can evaluate inherent safety compared to expert evaluations and Dow Fire and Explosion index values. Studies on four levels of scope from process concept selection to equipment design were done and correlations between indices and expert values calculated. It was found that none of the selected indices is capable of assessing inherent safety on all stages. Every index has also its limitations because of differences on the parameters used and the information availability. Most problematic seems to be the sub process selection level, where the results of indices are inconsistent.
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