Optimization of calculations of the effects of spill fires during accidents on linear equipment

Kazan State Energy University, Kazan, Russia

^* Corresponding author: elena_maister@mail.ru

Abstract

The issue of industrial (in particular, fire) safety at hazardous production facilities is considered. The previously obtained optimization method is given for calculating the assessment of the influence of hazardous factors in the event of possible accidents on extended (linear) equipment during explosions of fuel-air mixtures. Optimization is based on accelerating the calculations of the potential damage probability of Q_n(M0) using transformed formulas containing a single instead of a double integral. The transformed formulas for calculating the double integral obtained in were used to optimize the calculations for the case of a spill fire based on the recommended probit function Pr used to estimate the damage to people by thermal radiation. As an example of calculations, a rectilinear fragment of a pipeline on a plane, presented as a segment of a straight line, is considered. To obtain an assessment of effectiveness, 1000 sets of source data characterizing various emergency situations were randomly generated. Based on the calculations for these data sets, statistical results are presented that characterize the effectiveness of the proposed optimization method: a graph of the values of the multiplicity of the reduction in calculation time using the converted formulas; average value and standard deviation of the multiplicity of reduction of calculation time; the maximum deviation of the values calculated by the original and converted formulas.