Reliability analysis s ystem for lng receiving terminals

摘要

A tool capable of quantitative evaluation of the reliability of LNG facilities based on FTA (Fault Tree analysis) was developed and assembled into a system using an engineering work station. A key feature of the system is it constructs a fault tree automatically from diagrams such as process flow diagrams, and sequence block diagrams. This s ystem has actually been used in the evaluation of existing LNG receiving terminals, and has also contributed to cost reduction in building a new terminal. Moreover, the system is considered to be applicable to seismic risk management, etc.