China Safety Science Journal ›› 2017, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (8): 79-84.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2017.08.014

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Research on benzene leakage simulation and environmental exposure risk assessment for p-xylene disproportionation unit

YU Jing1, SHEN Xiaobo2, YANG Minglei1, XIU Guangli2, QIAN Feng1, WANG Jiming3   

  1. 1 Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Optimization for Chemical Process, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237,China;
    2 School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, East China university of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237,China;
    3 School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
  • Received:2017-04-01 Revised:2017-06-09 Online:2017-08-20 Published:2020-10-13

Abstract: Integration of mechanism model with HAZOP methodology is used to quantitatively assess three major failure events for p-xylene disproportionation unit,such as failure of circulation hydrogen. PHAST and ALOHA are used to simulate benzene release and predict concentration distribution for three accidents. Environmental exposure risk index is used to divide the risk areas. The results show that PHAST is more reliable than ALOHA because cloud rising effects and time-varying release rate are considered in PHAST simulation, and that the environmental exposure risk is in the range 10-5-10-4.

Key words: benzene, disproportionation unit, process hazard analysis software tool(PHAST), area locations of hazardous atmospheres(ALOHA), consequence simulation, environmental exposure risk, mechanism model

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