Objective The project aims to develop a software platform specifically for supporting hazard and operability studies carried out to ensure the safe design, construction and operation of industrial processes.The project seeks to integrate current leading-edge IT technology with a programme of developments in the necessary areas of hazard identification and analysis. The resulting software platform will give support to engineers engaged in the design of process plant and the safety assessment of their work from a safety viewpoint and supporting concurrent engineering activities. The project will develop routes to freely access the software representations of the flowsheets which describe the process and the instrumentation which will monitor and control it, together with supporting data . A key component of the system will be a knowledge-based hazard identification module with the capability to interrogate the associated databases in a way which facilitates concurrent engineering from the safety point of view. An associated knowledge-based module will perform a design pre-screening function. This will ensure essential design checks have been carried out prior to any hazard assessment so as to ensure the robustness of the design under review. This module will have reference to a store of experience (design choices which have proved to be undesirable in the past and so should be avoided in the future). The project also seeks to investigate how the use of such a tool might change the way in which hazards studies are performed, leading to a universal methodology which could form the basis of a European standard for hazards and safety analysis for industrial processes. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasessocial sciencessociologygovernancecrisis management Programme(s) FP3-ESPRIT 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of information technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES PLC Address Millbank imperial chemical house SW1P 3JF London United Kingdom See on map EU contribution No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ASPENTECH EUROPE Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rue colonel bourg, 127/129 1140 Bruxelles See on map Other funding No data BUREAU VERITAS France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 17 bis place des reflets 92400 Courbevoie See on map Other funding No data HYPROTECH Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Caspe, 127 08013 Barcelona See on map Other funding No data Intrasoft Sa Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address Adrianiou street 2 115 25 Athens See on map Other funding No data Loughborough University of Technology United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Ashby road LE11 1HH Loughborough See on map Other funding No data SFK Technology Ltd United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address MK43 0SN Cranfield See on map Other funding No data Snamprogetti SpA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Viale alcide de gasperi 16 20097 San donato milanese See on map Other funding No data Tecnologie Applicate all' Informazione Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via taramelli 26 20124 Milano See on map Other funding No data VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland Finland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Tekniikankatu 1 33101 Tampere See on map Links Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
