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Risk analysis of key systems have become a growing topic late of because of the development of offshore structures. Equipment failures of offloading system and fire accidents were analyzed based on the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) features. Fault tree analysis (FTA), and failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) methods were examined based on information already researched on modules of relex reliability studio (RRS). Equipment failures were also analyzed qualitatively by establishing a fault tree and Boolean structure function based on the shortage of failure cases, statistical data, and risk control measures examined. Failure modes of fire accident were classified according to the different areas of fire occurrences during the FMEA process, using risk priority number (RPN) methods to evaluate their severity rank. The qualitative analysis of FTA gave the basic insight of forming the failure modes of FPSO offloading, and the fire FMEA gave the priorities and suggested processes. The research has practical importance for the security analysis problems of FPSO.
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Foundation item: Supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (HEUCFR1109) and “111” projects foundation (Grant No.B07019) from State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China and Ministry of Education of China.
Liping Sun was born in 1962. She has been a professor at Harbin Engineering University since 2002. She has 24 years teaching and research experience in naval architecture and offshore engineering. Get involved in structural performance analysis, strength assessment of offshore structures, analysis of freestanding riser, interaction of pipeline with soil, DP capability analysis of SEMI and performance analysis of pipelaying vessel.
Hai Sun was born in 1982. He is an assistant professor, quality & reliability engineering, Ph.D. He has been working in Harbin Engineering University since 2009. Research aera: structural reliability; risk management and its application in offshore engineering; structural dynamic.
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Sun, L., Sun, H. Risk management of key issues of FPSO. J. Marine. Sci. Appl. 11, 402–409 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11804-012-1149-7
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