Plant Hazard Analysis and Safety Instrumentation Systems

Appendix III

Simplified Mathematical Equations

1.0. General

Basic mathematical and statistical formulas have been discussed in Clause 5.0 in Chapter I. Also, the Weibull distribution and some mathematical treatments of reliability and have been covered in chapter clause numbers 1.2.3, 1.3.1, and Table VII/1.3-2 of Chapter VII. In this appendix, these basics will be discussed further with a little more detail and with application approaches in safety assessments so that the reader will be in a position to apply the same in future. All endeavors have been put to eliminate detailed theoretical part and other mathematical detailing. As the focus is on application part, so in this limited space only basic mathematical structures have been touched upon. ...