5 - Pressurizing and work generation systems safety: Compressors, turbines, etc.

Abstract

The design and operation of process plants need essential safety as a proactive approach to hazard/risk management. From an economic viewpoint, inherent safety provides a cost-optimal option for a safer operation during the lifetime of a process. Although intrinsic safety may be applied at any phase of design and function, the best results can be obtained at the earliest possible stages of process design in which we have more flexibility to design process safety. Inherent safety can be a cost-effective procedure to manage hazards, especially in offshore oil and gas activities. This chapter tries to detail the application of various risk analysis principles in various pressurizing systems like turbines.