Intelligent safety systems for energy & production facilities

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Accidents are still occurring in production and energy industries. Especially with the growth and increase in their complexity and expansion for higher productivity. With the tendency to move towards real time optimization of production process and the introduction of energy supply systems, dynamic behaviours are introduced, which led to dynamic hazard scenarios with great uncertainties. Unfortunately, existing methods and tools of safety design are based on rigid safety control strategies and fixed reliability calculations, which made it difficult to provide viable and cost-effective safety systems that can deal with these dynamic risk scenarios. Accurate safety design is mainly based on complete hazard scenario analysis. However, this is not achievable in view of current hazard identification and analysis methods and tools. In addition, there are limitations in the automatic mapping of fault and hazard scenarios into safety requirements, which time consuming. Moreover, there is a lack of dynamic and accurate calculations of target and current risk and reliability for each hazard scenario, which is essential to specify target safety systems and to provide reliable protection in different/multiple scenarios. This research program will investigate methods and intelligent tools to support the design, verification, and operation of safety systems and their implementation in energy and production systems. Advanced methods will be investigated to automatically synthesize all possible hazard scenarios and the map to the corresponding safety requirements. Advanced real time and simulated risk assessment and qualitative and quantitative fault analysis and prediction techniques will be developed and applied to analyze and design safety systems. Safety control will synthesized for instrumented and non-instrumented safety systems Risk assessment techniques will be investigated to support safety system design and operation. The proposed intelligent safety systems will be applied on different energy technologies such as hydrogen, natural gas, solar, wind, geothermal, and other manufacturing and production systems.