Multiplant emergency planning in the event of domino effects

Behnaz Hosseinnia, Nima Khakzad, Genserik Reniers, Nicola Paltrinieri

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Abstract

Emergency response planning for coping with domino effects at chemical and process plants is essential to protect the public and workers’ health and safety, reduce the environmental impacts, and accelerate the resumption of normal operations. The need for domino effects emergency response becomes even more critical in the case of chemical industrial areas (chemical clusters) since a primary fire or explosion at a single plant may trigger external domino effects and impact the entire cluster. So far, much attention has been addressed to developing and implementing emergency planning in single plants with very little attention to multiplant emergency response planning in chemical clusters. This chapter is aimed at developing a multiplant emergency response decision support system for coping with domino effects at chemical clusters. In this way, a primary fire or explosion within the chemical cluster can be effectively handled before it evolves as a domino effect.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDynamic Risk Assessment and Management of Domino Effects and Cascading Events in the Process Industry
PublisherElsevier
Chapter15
Pages341-367
Number of pages27
ISBN (Electronic)9780081028384
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Keywords

  • Chemical industrial area
  • Decision support system
  • Domino effects
  • Emergency response planning

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