Performance Assessment of an Emergency Plan Using Petri Nets
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2013-01-01
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JOURNAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERINGTRANSACTIONS.Vol 32 pp235-240
Abstract
Emergency plans (EP) are complex systems which incorporate elements of three different natures:
technical, human and organizational. In addition, they must be executed under time and efficiency
constraints. This inherent complexity may leads to a number of failures, such as unavailability of critical
personnel or technical assets and inappropriate operators' actions. In this paper we present a Petri Netbased approach to model and evaluate the performance of an EP related to condensate storage tank fire
scenario. In fact, Petri Nets are a powerful tool to describe complex systems and their inherent
interactions. Due to the model complexity, results are obtained thanks to Monte Carlo simulation.