Modelling of BP Texas City refinery accident using dynamic risk assessment approach

Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 191-199

  Kalantarnia, Maryam ^a   Khan, Faisal ^a   Hawboldt, Kelly ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Dynamic risk assessment; Event tree; Predictive model

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; REFINING;

ACCIDENT LIKELIHOOD; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES; CONSEQUENCE ASSESSMENT; DYNAMIC RISK ASSESSMENTS; EVENT TREES; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; PREDICTIVE MODELING;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77953695164     PISSN: 09575820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psep.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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