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Understanding the consequences from pipeline loss-of-containment events is crucial to pipeline safety management. The methodology presented in this paper for determining consequences leverages BakerRisk’s expertise in dispersion and fire modeling for the refining and pipeline industries, supported and verified against field tests and benchmarked with findings from BakerRisk’s work with incident investigations. Once consequences are known and better understood, emergency response plans can be enhanced to help mitigate vulnerabilities and exposures to such events. Using pipeline-specific information for dispersion and fire modeling, consequences can be represented by distances to thresholds of concern such as flammable concentration and thermal radiation endpoints of interest. In addition, modeling can be used to assess endpoints for other hazards such as toxic exposure and explosion impacts; however, this paper focuses only on flammable and thermal consequences.
As the biofuels industry continues to expand in support of global decarbonization mandates and objectives, facility owners and developers are being challenged to balance production efficiency, operational reliability, and personnel safety.
As high hazard facilities, biofuels sites should focus on developing a fire protections strategy informed by performance-based analysis so strategies implemented meet the unique challenges found at each facility.
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