6.9 Bow Tie Analysis - 2016 PDF
6.9 Bow Tie Analysis - 2016 PDF
6.9 Bow Tie Analysis - 2016 PDF
The software (BQR) considers also an inspection each 8760 h, which achieves the PDF of 4.46E-4.
This PDF represents SIL level 3 over 10 years.
Material
Quality
Co rrosion Inspection
Toxic
Corrosive Emergency Gas
Product Team Release
Vehicle Safety
Accident Procedures
Emergency Jet
Team Fire
Pipeline Valve
Pipeline
OR Gas Alarm Closed
Disruption
Leakage (SIF)
Material Behavior
Emergency
Drop Audit Explosion
Team
FIGURE 6.48
Pipeline gas leak (bow tie).
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As shown in Fig. 6.49, bow tie analysis can be a combination of FTA and ETA for layers of
protection. In a pipeline gas leak, the potential causes are corrosion, pipeline disruption, and seismic
effect.
Corrosion can be caused by inappropriate material quality in the pipeline or corrosive products in
the pipeline, which do not meet pipeline specifications.
As a control measure to avoid corrosion, it is necessary to perform inspections periodically.
Pipeline disruption can be caused by vehicle accidents or material drops on the pipeline. As a
control measure to avoid vehicle accidents it is necessary to follow traffic safety procedures. The
control measure to avoid material drop on a pipeline when equipment or material are being moved
around the pipeline area is to perform a behavior audit to verify that safety procedures are being
conducted.
Seismic effect is another potential cause of accidents and the control measure is to perform
geology analysis in the project phase to verify that the pipeline is in an area that is not subject to
seismic effects.
If one of the main potential causes happens, that is, corrosion, pipeline disruption, or seismic effect
of the pipeline, the incident of a pipeline gas leak may occur. If the incident occurs, there are four
Material
Quality
OR
Corrosive Corrosion
Product
Inspection Toxic
Emergency Gas
Team Release
Vehicle
Traffic
Material Emergency
Movement Team Explosion
AND
Behavior
Audit Emergency Fire Ball
Team
Seismic
Effect
AND
Geology Analysis
on Pipeline Project
FIGURE 6.49
Pipeline gas leak (bow tie). Bow tie, FTA þ ETA: Pipeline gas leakage.
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probable consequences: toxic gas release, jet fire, explosion, or fire balls. Thus some recovery mea-
sures exist to avoid the accident, which are an alarm and SIF. With an alarm an operation emergency
response is required, but if an SIF is used the valve will block the pipeline feed and reduce the amount
of gas release.
To mitigate toxic gas release, jet fire, explosion, and fire ball consequences, emergency teams try to
evacuate the vulnerable areas before some of the consequences occur. In addition, whenever possible
the emergency team tries to eliminate ignition sources.
In most cases, bow tie analysis is performed qualitatively to assess an accident or incident, but
when performing quantitatively it is a good tool because it includes most quantitative risk analysis
methodology concepts and calculates the final event consequence probabilities.
In this case, depending on bow tie configuration, control measures can be taken into account in the
fault tree logic when performing bow tie configuration, as shown in Fig. 6.49.
No matter what the bow tie configuration is in Fig. 6.48, the control measure probability of failure
will be multiplied for fault tree logic gate results. For example, in the corrosion case in Fig. 6.48, the
probability of corrosion will be:
PðcorrosionÞ ¼ PðMaterial QualityÞ W PðCorrosive productÞ
¼ PðMaterial QualityÞ þ PðCorrosive productÞ PðMaterial QualityÞ
PðCorrosive productÞ
Actually, in this case the value of P(corrosion) will be multiplied per P(inspection) before calcu-
lating the logic gate “OR,” which gives the value of the pipeline gas leak.
In Fig. 6.49 the probability of corrosion is calculated by:
PðcorrosionÞ ¼ PðMaterial QualityÞ W PðCorrosive productÞ X PðInspectionÞ
¼ ðPðMaterial QualityÞ þ PðCorrosive productÞ PðMaterial QualityÞ
PðCorrosive productÞÞ PðInspectionÞ
The next step is to substitute the probabilities values from Table 6.10 in the following equations to
find the probability of a pipeline gas leak in 5 years:
PðPipeline Gas LeakageÞ ¼ ðPðCorrosionÞ W PðPipeline DisruptionÞ W PðSeismic effectÞÞ
¼ PðCorrosionÞ þ PðPipeline DisruptionÞ þ PðSeismic effectÞ ðPðCorrosionÞ
PðPipeline DisruptionÞÞ ðPðCorrosionÞ PðSeismic effectÞÞ
ðPðPipeline DisruptionÞ PðSeismic effectÞÞ.
As discussed it is necessary to calculate each partial probability first and then substitute the
probability values in the previous equation. Thus we have:
PðCorrosionÞ ¼ ½PðMaterial QualityÞ W PðCorrosive productÞ X PðInspectionÞ
¼ ½PðMaterial QualityÞ þ PðCorrosive productÞ PðMaterial QualityÞ
PðCorrosive productÞ PðInspectionÞ.
¼ ½ð0:1 þ 0:5Þ ð0:1 0:5Þ 0:04 ¼ ½ð0:6Þ ð0:05Þ 0:04 ¼ 0:022
PðCorrosionÞ ¼ 0:022
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8E-9
Failure Rate, f(t)/R(t)
6E-9
4E-9
2E-9
(43800) = 4.8E-10
0
175,200 350,400 525,600 700,800 876,000
Time, (t)
FIGURE 6.50
Pipeline gas leak failure rate.