PHASuite: An Automated Process Hazards Analysis Tool for Chemical Processes

摘要

Safety is an important issue in process design and operation in the chemical industry. It is, however, time and effort consuming to conduct a comprehensive process safety/hazards analysis. To aid human experts in conducting safety analysis in a more thorough and systematic way, a knowledge based software system (PHASuite: Process Hazards Analysis Suite) for automated safety analysis has been developed in this work. An industrial case study of a pharmaceutical process is used to illustrate the applicability and procedure of using PHASuite for automated safety analysis.