Crises in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries

Loss Prevention and Disaster Management

1st Edition - July 13, 2023
Imprint: Elsevier
Editors: Mohammad Reza Rahimpour, Babak Omidvar, Nazanin Abrishami Shirazi, Mohammad Amin Makarem
Language: English
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Crises in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries: Loss Prevention and Disaster Management, Volume Two provides an overview of both natural and manmade disasters occurring in oil, gas and petrochemical industries and prepares special solutions based on their types. The book focuses on loss prevention and disaster management in petrochemical industries from different points-of-view. Sections review methods for making the apparatus safer and continue with discussions on the process of facing and managing disasters during the occurrence. Final sections cover loss and economic analysis after disasters and methods of reversibility are presented with case studies from around the world.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Biographies
Preface
Section I. Basics in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
1. Introduction to safe design and standards
1. Introduction
2. Lessons learned from process safety incidents
3. Process safety regulations and standards
4. Safe design
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations and symbols
2. Instruments vulnerability and resilience
1. Introduction
2. Resilience
3. Oil and gas sector vulnerabilities
4. Vulnerabilities related to fuel
5. Conclusions
3. Risk analysis and hazard probabilities
1. Introduction
2. Hazards types in chemical industries
3. Hazards of chemical apparatus
4. Implications of risk definition
5. Risk assessment
6. Conclusion
Section II. Predisaster strategies in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
4. Heat generation and exchange systems safety: furnaces, heat exchangers, reformers, etc.
1. Introduction
2. Evaluation of the heat-related hazards
3. The importance of HSE (health, safety, environment)
4. Principals and procedures in safety establishment
5. Current applications and cases
6. Consequence analysis
7. Analyzing HAZOP
8. Conclusions and future outlooks
5. Pressurizing and work generation systems safety: Compressors, turbines, etc.
1. Introduction
2. Safety design objectives for pressurized work generation
3. Gas turbine performance and basic cycle
4. Principles and procedures
5. Specifications of high-pressure processes
6. High-pressure pumps and compressors
7. Instrumentation for high-pressure devices
8. Online measuring of process data
9. Inherently safer plant: present status
10. Inherently safety: from principals to practice
11. Designing the inherent safety
12. Current applications and cases
13. Compressors
14. Antisurge control of centrifugal compressor
15. Turbines
16. Conclusion and future outlooks
6. Reaction mediums and apparatus safety: reactors, columns, etc.
1. Introduction
2. Reaction mediums safety
3. Reactor
4. Columns
5. Conclusion and futures outlook
Abbreviations
7. Separation and purification apparatus safety: separators, trays, towers, etc.
1. Introduction
2. Separation apparatus
3. Purification apparatus
4. Apparatus safety and maintenance
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations
8. Storage systems safety: vessels, reservoirs, etc.
1. Introduction
2. Storage tanks
3. Managing safety
4. Process safety strategies
5. Fire hazards of chemical storage vessels
6. Process vessels
7. Conclusion and future outlook
Abbreviations
9. Chemicals transporting systems safety: pumps, pipelines, and valves
1. Introduction
2. Pipelines
3. Valves
4. Pumps
5. Conclusion and future outlook
10. Safety in controlling systems and apparatus
1. Introduction
2. Relationships between the two concepts of safety and security
3. Process control system
4. Shutdown systems
5. Accidents caused by failure of safety systems
6. Conclusion
11. Resilient units design and plant construction against future crises
1. Introduction
2. Plant resilience and engineering: key elements
3. The design of resilient units
4. Framework for determining plant resilience
5. Conclusion
Section III. During and postdisaster strategies in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries
12. Crisis management and decision-making
1. Introduction
2. Crisis
3. Crisis management
4. Crisis management plans
5. Crisis preparation
6. Physical factors affecting preparation
7. Impediments to effective crisis response
8. Key factors for ensuring crisis preparation
9. Crisis management plans in petroleum companies
10. Conclusion
Abbreviations
13. Postdisaster issues and problems
1. Introduction
2. Types of disasters that the oil and gas sector encounters
3. Disaster management
4. Disaster leadership
5. Safety culture
6. Safety outcomes
7. Postdisaster economic
8. Postdisaster communication
9. Conclusion
Abbreviations
14. Economic analysis of disasters
1. Introduction
2. Oil and gas operation disasters
3. Economic modeling of disasters
4. Environmental and economic damages
5. Conclusion and future outlook
Section IV. Disaster case studies
15. Disasters cases in oil industry and probability assessment by Bayesian network model
1. Introduction
2. Fundamental of Bayesian network
3. Proposed model
4. Model formulation
5. Analysis and result
6. Recommendation and conclusion
List of abbreviations and symbols
16. Disaster cases in gas industry
1. Introduction
2. Disaster cases in the oil and gas industry
3. Conclusion and future outlook
17. Effectiveness of floating roof sealing system insulation for crude oil storage tanks: a case study of lightning strikes
1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusion
18. Explosion and fire following earthquake risk assessment of gas pipelines: a case study in an urban district
1. Introduction
2. The study area
3. Research methodology
4. The implementation of proposed algorithm
5. Analysis of the results
6. Conclusion
Index

Mohammad Reza Rahimpour

Prof. Mohammad Reza Rahimpour is a professor in Chemical Engineering at Shiraz University, Iran. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Shiraz University joint with University of Sydney, Australia 1988. He started his independent career as Assistant Professor in September 1998 at Shiraz University. Prof. M.R. Rahimpour, was a Research Associate at University of California, Davis from 2012 till 2017. During his stay in University of California, he developed different reaction networks and catalytic processes such as thermal and plasma reactors for upgrading of lignin bio-oil to biofuel with collaboration of UCDAVIS. He has been a Chair of Department of Chemical Engineering at Shiraz University from 2005 till 2009 and from 2015 till 2020. Prof. M.R. Rahimpour leads a research group in fuel processing technology focused on the catalytic conversion of fossil fuels such as natural gas, and renewable fuels such as bio-oils derived from lignin to valuable energy sources. He provides young distinguished scholars with perfect educational opportunities in both experimental methods and theoretical tools in developing countries to investigate in-depth research in the various field of chemical engineering including carbon capture, chemical looping, membrane separation, storage and utilization technologies, novel technologies for natural gas conversion and improving the energy efficiency in the production and use of natural gas industries.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Babak Omidvar

Dr Babak Omidvar is an associate professor at the University of Tehran. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran in 2001. He started his work as Assistant Professor in September 2002 at the graduate Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran. His research interests are resilience, risk and reliability analysis in various fields of urban areas and infrastructures. The courses he teaches at the University of Tehran include “Disaster resistant structures”, “Loss estimation studies”, “Infrastructure protection against natural disasters”, “Vulnerability assessment”, “Risk analysis and management”, “Resilience engineering”, “Environmental statistics”, “Environmental economics”, “Reliability in water resource management” and “Engineering Mathematics”. His recent research focus is on robust optimization, deep uncertainty, decision making under uncertainty, infrastructure performance assessment considering inter- and intra- dependencies, catastrophe theory, complex systems, network analysis and Multi-hazards analysis which all of them are used in natural disaster engineering and management category. In this regard, he has conducted many research studies and supervised more than 180 national and international graduate students in performing their Ph.D. and MSc theses.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Nazanin Abrishami Shirazi

Nazanin Abrishami Shirazi is a PhD Candidates at University of Tehran. Her focus is on vulnerability assessment in various fields including engineering apparatus and materials, and finding proper solutions for crisis prevention and environmental side effects management. Recently he has collaborated in writing and editing various scientific works including book chapters with prestigious publishers such Elsevier and Springer.

Affiliations and expertise

Research Associate, Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Amin Makarem

Dr. Mohammad Amin Makarem is a research associate at Taylor's University, Malaysia. He former worked at Shiraz University. His research interests are gas separation and purification, nanofluids, microfluidics, catalyst synthesis, reactor design and green energy. In gas separation, his focus is on experimental and theoretical investigation and optimization of pressure swing adsorption process, and in the gas purification field, he is working on novel technologies such as microchannels. Recently, he has investigated methods of synthesizing bio-template nanomaterials and catalysts. Besides, he has collaborated in writing and editing various books and book-chapters for famous publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and Wiley, as well as guest editing journals special issues.

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