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http://dx.doi.org/10.9713/kcer.2022.60.3.347

Priority Analysis of Cause Factors of Safety Valve Failure Mode Using Analytical Hierarchy Process  

Kim, Myung Chul (Department of Safety Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation)
Lee, Mi Jeong (Department of Safety Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation)
Lee, Dong Geon (Department of Safety Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation)
Baek, Jong-Bae (Department of Safety Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation)
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Korean Chemical Engineering Research / v.60, no.3, 2022 , pp. 347-355 More about this Journal
Abstract
The safety valve (PSV) is a safety device that automatically releases a spring when the pressure generated by various causes reaches the set pressure, and is restored to a normal state when the pressure falls below a certain level. Periodic inspection and monitoring of safety valves are essential so that they can operate normally in abnormal conditions such as pressure rise. However, as the current safety inspection is performed only at a set period, it is difficult to ensure the safety of normal operation. Therefore, evaluation items were developed by finding failure modes and causative factors of safety valves required for safety management. In addition, it is intended to provide decision-making information for securing safety by deriving the priority of items. To this end, a Delphi survey was conducted three times to derive evaluation factors that were judged to be important in relation to the Failure Mode Cause Factor (FMCFs) of the safety valve (PSV) targeting 15 experts. As a result, 6 failure modes of the safety valve and 22 evaluation factors of its sub-factors were selected. In order to analyze the priorities of the evaluation factors selected in this way, the hierarchical structure was schematized, and the hierarchical decision-making method (AHP) was applied to the priority calculation. As a result of the analysis, the failure mode priorities of FMCFs were 'Leakage' (0.226), 'Fail to open' (0.201), 'Fail to relieve req'd capacity' (0.152), 'Open above set pressure' (0.149), 'Spuriously' 'open' (0.146) and 'Stuck open' (0.127) were confirmed in the order. The lower priority of FMCFs is 'PSV component rupture' (0.109), 'Fail to PSV size calculation' (0.068), 'PSV Spring aging' (0.065), 'Erratic opening' (0.059), 'Damage caused by improper installation and handling' (0.058), 'Fail to spring' (0.053), etc. were checked in the order. It is expected that through efficient management of FMCFs that have been prioritized, it will be possible to identify vulnerabilities of safety valves and contribute to improving safety.
Keywords
Safety valve; Analytical hierarchy process (AHP); Failure mode cause factors (FMCFs);
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