Guidelines for process equipment reliability data with data tables

Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)0816904227, 9780816904228

The book supplements Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis by providing the failure rate data needed to perform a chemical process quantitative risk analysis.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter……Page 1
Preface……Page 3
Acknowledgments……Page 6
Glossary……Page 7
Acronyms……Page 11
Appendix C. Matrix of Data Elements in Data Resources……Page 0
1.1 Background……Page 16
1.2 Guidelines Purpose, Scope and Organization……Page 17
1.3 Use of This Guidelines……Page 18
2.1 Sources and Types of Failure Rate Data……Page 22
2.2 Failure Model……Page 23
2.3 Taxonomy……Page 24
2.4 Confidence and Tolerance……Page 26
2.5 Sources of Variation in Failure Rates……Page 27
2.6 Time-Related and Demand-Related Failure Causes……Page 29
2.7 Using Failure Rate Data……Page 30
References……Page 31
3.1 CCPS Taxonomy Structure……Page 32
3.2 CCPS Taxonomy Development……Page 36
3.3 The CCPS Taxonomy and Its Use……Page 37
References……Page 40
4.1 Data Resource Selection……Page 41
4.2 Data Resource Presentation……Page 42
4.3 Process Equipment Data Bases……Page 44
4.4 Process Equipment Data Sources……Page 55
4.5 Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Assessments (CPQRAs)……Page 70
4.6 Nonprocess Equipment Data Bases……Page 74
4.7 Nonprocess Equipment Data Sources……Page 105
4.8 Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRAs)……Page 130
5.1 Data Selection……Page 140
5.2 Data Treatment……Page 142
5.3 Data Table Presentation……Page 146
5.5 CCPS Generic Data Tables……Page 151
7. Failure Rate Data Transfer……Page 227
8. Supplemental References……Page 229
Appendix A: CCPS Generic Failure Rate Data Base Taxonomy……Page 232
Appendix B: Equipment Index……Page 273
Appendix C. Matrix of Data Elements in Data Resources……Page 282
Appendix D. Unreviewed Data Bases, Data Sources, and Studies……Page 293