A fuzzy multi-attribute HAZOP technique (FMA-HAZOP): Application to gas wellhead facilities

摘要

Hazard and Operability analysis (HAZOP) is a popular technique for hazard identification and risk ranking in hazardous facilities. Conventional HAZOP, however, has some drawbacks: (i) it considers a limited number of risk factors, i.e., only the frequency and the severity of hazards; (ii) it assumes equal weights for the risk factors, thus ranking low-probability high-consequence hazards equally important as high-probability low-consequence hazards; and (iii) it uses crisp and precise data which is rarely available or highly uncertain, especially in the case of complex oil and gas facilities.