Risk Assessment and System Safety in the Process Industry

Dear Colleagues,

The complexity of the processes and the nature of volatile petroleum products lead to the frequent occurrence of unexpected failures or accidents, which pose a severe threat to human safety, the environment and assets. Operations in the process industry are challenged by a series of adverse factors, e.g., harsh environment, corrosion, fatigue and natural hazards. The process industry is implementing risk assessment to identify and manage potential failure modes that can interrupt operation processes. Additionally, a series of techniques were utilized to improve the reliability of the process system. Although many efforts were made to oversee operation management to ensure asset integrity, and human and environmental safety, failures and accidents still occur and result in various consequences. Recently, the exploration, exploitation and transportation of emerging energy have brought new questions and challenges. Thus, an improved knowledge of safety, reliability and risk in the process industry is urgent.

This Special Issue pays particular attention to safety, risk and reliability in process industries, including theories, methods and engineering applications, to cope with the challenges of harsh environments, major accidents and new energy.

The potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Structural design method in harsh environments;
• Structural safety assessment of process facilities;
• Accident modeling in process operations;
• Risk identification, analysis, assessment;
• Emergency decision-making and management;
• Technical safety and loss prevention;
• Non-destructive detection technique for process facilities;
• Reliability assessment for process facilities;
• Transportation safety of emerging energy;
• Fault diagnostics and prognostics;
• Risk early warning;
• AI in safety and reliability;
• Resilience engineering.

Dr. Xinhong Li
Dr. Mingyang Yang
Guest Editors

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• risk assessment
• system safety
• reliability engineering
• process industry