Process Safety Management for Batch Process Operation

摘要

The batch process is becoming increasingly important due to a greater emphasis on low-volume, higher added value products, and the need for flexibility in a market driven environment. In the meantime, the management of process safety has become a mandatory as the public concern on environmental impacts and a safety of chemical industries heightened. In this research, a scenario oriented method of abnormal situation handling procedure design and a multi-agent based abnormal situation handling operation management scheme are proposed for batch processes. In the proposed scheme, the hazard evaluation and the abnormal situation handling procedure design are structured in three layers, inter-Unit, intra-Unit and intra-CGU levels. The proposed scheme makes it easy to design and express an abnormal situation handling procedures and simplify the task of safety operation management and seamlessly integrates those two tasks.