The storage of hazardous materials is a necessary part of the life cycle and operation of any process plant, which intrinsically entails certain hazards and dangers. The results of historical analysis reveal that 17% of major accidents in the process industry occur in storage terminals, and the NFPA of the USA reported that in 2009, 13% percent of the major fire accidents that occurred in that country took place in storage installations, causing $69,980,000 in losses. Therefore, it is clear that a methodology for the optimization of the design of storage terminals from a safety point of view could be very useful. A method that allows doing this, through the combination of Quantitative Risk Assessment, Inherently Safer Design and mathematical optimization, has been developed in this thesis. This methodology has been applied to a real life case study, obtaining results that validate it as a useful tool in the design of storage terminals.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TDX_UPC/oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/129636 |
| Date | 19 September 2013 |
| Creators | Bernechea, Esteban |
| Contributors | Arnaldos Viger, Josep, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Química |
| Publisher | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| Source Sets | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
| Format | 281 p., application/pdf |
| Source | TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa) |
| Rights | L'accés als continguts d'aquesta tesi queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/, info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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