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Application of the digraph method of fault tree construction to process plant

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posted on 2008-10-30, 12:47 authored by J.D. Andrews, J.M. Morgan
This paper describes the digraph method of fault tree construction and its application to the process stream of a butane vaporiser. It is shown that an accurate, well-structured fault tree can be produced for a process system which incorporates a number of control loops.

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British Gas R & D

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Citation

ANDREWS, J.D. and MORGAN, J.M., 1986. Application of the digraph method of fault tree construction to process plant. Reliability Engineering, 14 (2), pp. 85-106 [doi:10.1016/0143-8174(86)90045-4]

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© Elsevier Science Ltd.

Publication date

1986

Notes

A version of this paper was presented at the 5th National Reliability Engineering Conference—Reliability '85, 10–12 July 1985, Birmingham, UK, and was reproduced in the journal in Reliability Engineering [© Elsevier] by kind permission of the organisers. The definitive journal version is available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01438174

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0143-8174

Language

  • en

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