Explosion risk analysis on Town Border Stations of natural gas using Failure Mode & Effect Analysis and Fault Tree Analyses methods

Iran Occupational Health

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 16-27

  Khosravirad, Fatemeh ^a   Zarei, Esmaeil ^a   Mohammadfam, Iraj ^a   Shoja, Esmaeil ^b   Daryani, Mohsen Majidi ^c  

^a HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b National Iranian Gas Company   (Iran)

^c Maintenance Technician of Gas Devices   (Iran)

Author keywords

Explosion; Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA); Fault Tree Analysis (FTA); Risk; Town gas pressure reduction stations (TBS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84965043729     PISSN: 17355133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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