Assessment of the likelihood of exceeding the flare capacity of multiple LNG processing trains

Process Safety Progress

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 250-258

  Lopez, Ricardo A ^a   Saud, Yaneira ^a   Vaez, Najmeh ^a  

^a Global Risk Practice   (United States)

Author keywords

As low as reasonably practicable; Common cause failure; Fault tree analysis; Flare; Liquefied natural gas

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY OF GASES; FACILITIES; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; FLARE STACKS; GAS COMPRESSORS; GAS FUEL PURIFICATION; GAS INDUSTRY; GASES; GASOLINE; NATURAL GASOLINE PLANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE; AS LOW AS REASONABLY PRACTICABLE; COMMON CAUSE FAILURE; FLARE; FRONT-END ENGINEERING DESIGNS; LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG); PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT;

LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS;

EID: 84938747940     PISSN: 10668527     EISSN: 15475913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prs.11719     Document Type: Article

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