June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
40h 48m
English
Irene Lotero-Herranz and Santos Galán, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid - ETSII, José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2. 28006 Madrid, Spain
Hazard and operability analysis (HAZOP) has been widely used for risk identification during the last five decades but their limits are well known. In this paper it is proposed a new model-based approach based on the combination of the key ideas of HAZOP studies with dynamic optimization.
HAZOP; dynamic optimization; hybrid discrete/continuous; model
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