The study on the development of hazard evaluation expert system

  • Lee, Byungwoo (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kang, In-Koo (Process Dept., LG Engineering Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Suh, Jung-Chul (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Yoon, En-Sup (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University)
  • 발행 : 1996.10.01

초록

Inherently safe plants are maintained through the systematic identification of potential hazards, and various hazard evaluation methods have been developed. Recently, much effort is given into the development of automated hazard evaluation system by introducing the expert system. An automated system will help to obtain consistency and to make the result more reliable. HAZOP study is one of the most systematic and logical evaluation procedure. However, it has disadvantages: experts should participate at the same time, the detailed study requires much man-hour, and the results depend on the expertise of the experts. Therefore, the automation of hazard evaluation is necessary to reduce the required time and to get the consistent evaluation results. In this study, HAxSYM, an expert system to automate HAZOP study, is developed. The case studies are performed to validate the effectiveness of the developed system, and the results are compared to the results of traditional method.

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