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Preparing for major terrorist attacks against chemical clusters: Intelligently planning protection measures w.r.t. domino effects.
- Source :
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Process Safety & Environmental Protection: Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers Part B . Nov2014, Vol. 92 Issue 6, p583-589. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Chemical industrial areas or so-called chemical dusters consist of hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of chemical installations situated next to each other. Such areas can thus be seen as the summation of a large number of structures exhibiting danger to a certain degree for initiating or continuing accident domino effects or knock-on effects. In this article, an approach to investigate in a systemic way the vulnerability of each installation within the larger chemical cluster context, is developed. Our suggested method results in a prioritization of chemical installations with respect to their vulnerability for domino effects. The method can be used for intelligently designed protection of chemical industrial areas against terrorist attacks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09575820
- Volume :
- 92
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Process Safety & Environmental Protection: Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers Part B
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 99862284
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2013.04.002