Risk Assessment System for Oil and Gas Pipelines Laid in One Ditch Based on Quantitative Risk Analysis

In view of the vegetation reduction caused by the continuous construction of oil and gaspipelines, the pipelines have been designed to be laid in one ditch to reduce land occupation.However, owing to the small spacing between the pipelines, the fault correlation between pipelineshas been proven to i...

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Main Authors: Peng Zhang, Guojin Qin, Yihuan Wang
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-03-01
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/6/981
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Yihuan Wang
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Yihuan Wang
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description In view of the vegetation reduction caused by the continuous construction of oil and gaspipelines, the pipelines have been designed to be laid in one ditch to reduce land occupation.However, owing to the small spacing between the pipelines, the fault correlation between pipelineshas been proven to increase the potential hazard of adjacent pipelines and routing environments.The neglect of failure correlation in existing risk assessment methods leads to inaccurate results,which will lead to errors in maintenance decisions. Therefore, this paper proposed a riskassessment system for pipelines using this laying method. In the risk assessment, pipelines laid inone ditch (PLOD) were regarded as a series system relative to the routing environment. Therefore,the functional relationship between the total risk of the pipeline system and the risk of eachpipeline was obtained by combining the engineering system reliability theory with themathematical induction method. In addition, fuzzy set theory combined with fault tree analysiswas used to calculate the failure probability of each pipeline in the system. Event tree analysis wasused to sort out all the possible consequences of pipeline failure, and then the consequences wereunified into monetary units to evaluate the severity of failure consequences. Finally, the two partswere merged into a bow-tie diagram to realize the risk management and control of the pipeline.Meanwhile, risk acceptance criteria were formulated to analyze risks and to guide pipelinemaintenance. This system provides a complete risk assessment system for the pipeline system laidin one ditch, including the methods of risk identification, risk assessment, and risk analysis, whichare of great significance to ensure the safety of the pipeline and the surrounding environment usingthis laying method.
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spelling doaj.art-30d73840141c40cea153f00c2bfa316b2022-12-22T04:03:40ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732019-03-0112698110.3390/en12060981en12060981Risk Assessment System for Oil and Gas Pipelines Laid in One Ditch Based on Quantitative Risk AnalysisPeng Zhang0Guojin Qin1Yihuan Wang2School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, ChinaSchool of Mechatronic Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, ChinaSchool of Mechatronic Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, ChinaIn view of the vegetation reduction caused by the continuous construction of oil and gaspipelines, the pipelines have been designed to be laid in one ditch to reduce land occupation.However, owing to the small spacing between the pipelines, the fault correlation between pipelineshas been proven to increase the potential hazard of adjacent pipelines and routing environments.The neglect of failure correlation in existing risk assessment methods leads to inaccurate results,which will lead to errors in maintenance decisions. Therefore, this paper proposed a riskassessment system for pipelines using this laying method. In the risk assessment, pipelines laid inone ditch (PLOD) were regarded as a series system relative to the routing environment. Therefore,the functional relationship between the total risk of the pipeline system and the risk of eachpipeline was obtained by combining the engineering system reliability theory with themathematical induction method. In addition, fuzzy set theory combined with fault tree analysiswas used to calculate the failure probability of each pipeline in the system. Event tree analysis wasused to sort out all the possible consequences of pipeline failure, and then the consequences wereunified into monetary units to evaluate the severity of failure consequences. Finally, the two partswere merged into a bow-tie diagram to realize the risk management and control of the pipeline.Meanwhile, risk acceptance criteria were formulated to analyze risks and to guide pipelinemaintenance. This system provides a complete risk assessment system for the pipeline system laidin one ditch, including the methods of risk identification, risk assessment, and risk analysis, whichare of great significance to ensure the safety of the pipeline and the surrounding environment usingthis laying method.http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/6/981oil and gas pipelines laid in one ditchrisk assessment analysisbow-tie modelrisk acceptance criteriafuzzy set theory
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Energies
oil and gas pipelines laid in one ditch
risk assessment analysis
bow-tie model
risk acceptance criteria
fuzzy set theory
title Risk Assessment System for Oil and Gas Pipelines Laid in One Ditch Based on Quantitative Risk Analysis
title_full Risk Assessment System for Oil and Gas Pipelines Laid in One Ditch Based on Quantitative Risk Analysis
title_fullStr Risk Assessment System for Oil and Gas Pipelines Laid in One Ditch Based on Quantitative Risk Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Risk Assessment System for Oil and Gas Pipelines Laid in One Ditch Based on Quantitative Risk Analysis
title_short Risk Assessment System for Oil and Gas Pipelines Laid in One Ditch Based on Quantitative Risk Analysis
title_sort risk assessment system for oil and gas pipelines laid in one ditch based on quantitative risk analysis
topic oil and gas pipelines laid in one ditch
risk assessment analysis
bow-tie model
risk acceptance criteria
fuzzy set theory
url http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/6/981
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