System Safety Assessment by Developing Hazard Rate Function Based on 5 years Incidents in an Oil Refinery Using Weibull Analysis and its Estimators

Authors(2) :-Praveen Patel, Dr. Nagendra Sohani

A comprehensive study on system safety assessment of an Indian Oil Refinery incident for five year was done considering the effect of incidents on refinery infrastructure and human injury/causality. The impact of incidents has been assessed by two parameter first the time between two successive incidents and seconds its consequences. The hazard rate function and cumulative risk function for distinguished category of incident in oil refinery were developed. The study evaluated the status of safety level as well as the scope of improvement for the particular oil refinery safety.

Authors and Affiliations

Praveen Patel
PhD. Scholar, Mechanical Engineering Department, Suresh Gyan Vihar Univercity, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Dr. Nagendra Sohani
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Institute of Engineering & Science, DAVV, Indore , Madhya Pradesh., India

Hazard Rate Function, TBO, System Safety Assessment, Safety Analysis.

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 1 | Issue 5 | September-October 2015
Date of Publication : 2015-10-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 361-367
Manuscript Number : IJSRSET151581
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099

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Praveen Patel, Dr. Nagendra Sohani, " System Safety Assessment by Developing Hazard Rate Function Based on 5 years Incidents in an Oil Refinery Using Weibull Analysis and its Estimators , International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 1, Issue 5, pp.361-367, September-October-2015. Citation Detection and Elimination     |     
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