SGER: Fundamental Study on Chemical Process Operational Security Assessment

SGER：化工过程运行安全评估基础研究

• 批准号: 0407494
• 负责人: Helen Lou
• 金额: $ 11.93万
• 依托单位: Lamar University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2007-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0407494&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Fundamental; Study; Chemical; Process

ResearchThis project will focus on the fundamental study of fast, quantitative, and accurate security assessment of chemical processes. The goal is to develop a useful knowledge base for fast, quantitative and accurate assessment of process safety and security. The knowledge base will contain a general process security dynamic modeling method and a process security assessment method (with a basic enhancement capability). The study will lay the foundation for a future effort to develop a more comprehensive process security enhancement methodology.Chemical plant security is one important aspect of homeland security since the potential for severe environmental and economic consequences is great. The approach is to look at: (i) is a plant operationally secure if it is attacked by a technically knowledgeable terrorist, (ii) if not, how much time is available before a disaster occurs, and (iii) for a given plant, how can the most critical factors for secure operation be identified. The work will look at assessment accuracy and be applicable to the chemical process industries (CPI). If successful, it will provide critical guidance on how to develop fast, effective process security and enhancement methodologies for industrial facilities.Broad ImpactThe knowledge base generated could provide a comprehensive understanding of plant security, which can be used by industry to pursue process security enhancement over and above traditional process safety measures. The PI is planning to involve students from underrepresented groups in the project, thus besides the obvious importance to homeland security, the project will also have educational and outreach value.

研究本项目将致力于化工过程快速、定量、准确的安全评估的基础研究。 目标是开发一个有用的知识库，用于快速、定量和准确地评估过程安全和安保。 知识库将包含一个通用的过程安全动态建模方法和一个过程安全评估方法（具有基本的增强能力）。 这项研究将为今后开发更全面的过程安全增强方法奠定基础。化工厂安全是国土安全的一个重要方面，因为严重的环境和经济后果的潜力是巨大的。 这种方法是看：（一）是一个工厂的操作安全，如果它是由一个技术知识渊博的恐怖分子袭击，（二）如果不是，有多少时间之前，灾难发生，（三）对于一个给定的工厂，如何才能确定安全运行的最关键因素。 这项工作将着眼于评估的准确性，并适用于化学加工工业（CPI）。 如果成功的话，它将为如何为工业设施开发快速，有效的过程安全和增强方法提供重要的指导。广泛的影响所产生的知识库可以提供对工厂安全的全面理解，工业界可以使用这些知识库来追求过程安全增强，而不仅仅是传统的过程安全措施。 PI计划让代表性不足的群体的学生参与该项目，因此，除了对国土安全的明显重要性外，该项目还将具有教育和推广价值。