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Plant safety and risk with temporary equipment
Author(s) -
Cadwallader L.C.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
process safety progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1547-5913
pISSN - 1066-8527
DOI - 10.1002/prs.10144
Subject(s) - engineering , risk assessment , risk analysis (engineering) , safety equipment , forensic engineering , operations management , reliability engineering , business , computer science , computer security
Temporary equipment may be brought onto a plant site for a variety of process needs. The risk profile of the facility is altered by use of such temporary equipment, but since the time durations of temporary equipment usage are generally small, usually fewer than 90 days per year, the risk increase is also small and is typically not modeled in a probabilistic risk assessment. This article describes some risk issues with temporary equipment in long‐term use, gives a case study of a temporary, diesel‐driven air compressor under extended use at the Idaho National Laboratory, and suggests the need to model temporary equipment in the facility risk assessment if the equipment is used more than a few months. © 2006 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog, 2006