Phast

The most comprehensive hazard analysis and QRA software

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Process Industry Challenges
In todays competitive environment, the management of
hazardous facilities to ensure safe and cost effective oper-
ation is high on the corporate agenda. The market
demands consistent performance in demonstrating safe
and efficient operation whilst complying with regulation
and legislation. As safety professionals we recognise that
good safety means good business. Demonstrating this
to key stakeholders is not straightforward and you need
the best tools to help.
Our Innovation
Phast is the most comprehensive software available for
performing Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Quantitative
Risk Assessment (QRA) and Financial Risk Analysis
(FRA). Our extensively validated software for conse-
quence and risk analysis is used by governments and
industry helping them to comply with local safety
regulation and their own corporate best practice.
Phast contains all the discharge, dispersion, effects
and risk models you will need to accurately assess all
your major hazards and associated risks.
User Friendly Environment
All configurations of Phast share the same Graphical
User Interface and standard Windows look and feel.
The user friendly Phast environment has many benefits:
I Compatible with popular office applications
I Excel import and export facility
I Extensive on-line electronic help
I Provides traceability and consistency in calculations
I Detailed technical documentation for models with
validation
I Dedicated helpdesk
I Easy to read results in a graphical or report format
I Facility to overlay results on Geographical Information
System, maps, aerial photographs and CAD images
using Intergraphs GeoMedia GIS
I Comprehensive database of material properties
I Highly configurable parameter sets
Configured to meet your Needs
Phast is available in a number of modes, from conse-
quence analysis only to full risk analysis. Phast also comes
with a number of extensions which increase the function-
ality available within each mode.
Phast Consequence
Phast Consequence provides you with comprehensive haz-
ard analysis facilities to examine the progress of a potential
incident from the initial release to its far-field effects.
Following identification of your major process plant
hazards, Phast allows you to predict all possible complex
consequences from possible releases of hazardous material.
Offering a complete solution
The most widely used and comprehensively validated software meeting all your risk management analysis
needs
It calculates the initial discharge, as the material expands
from its storage conditions to atmospheric, through dis-
persion, as the material mixes with air and dilutes, and
the subsequent toxic or flammable effects. Phast includes
a wide range of models for discharge and dispersion as
well as flammable, explosive and toxic effects.
Discharge
I Phast requires basic information about storage or
process conditions and material properties in order
to perform discharge calculations
I The software comes with an integrated material property
database containing more than 1,600 pre-defined pure
component chemicals
I Various discharge scenario options have been imple-
mented to represent common process failures, and
model their behaviour. These include:
I Leaks and line ruptures from long & short pipelines
I Catastrophic ruptures
I Relief valves and disc ruptures
I Tank roof collapse
I Vent from vapour spaces
I In building release effects
Dispersion
The dispersion models within Phast are able to model
the following phenomena
I Dispersion of gas, liquid and two-phase releases
I Liquid droplet thermodynamics calculations and liquid
droplet rainout
I Pool spreading and vaporisation
I Building wake dispersion effects for vapour releases
Flammable Effects
For releases of flammable material Phast calculates
I Radiation profiles and contours from a range of fire
scenarios including pool fires, flash fires, jet fires and
fire balls, including cross-wind effects on a jet fire
I Vapour Cloud Explosion modelling using industry
standards models including the TNO Multi-Energy,
Baker Strehlow Tang and TNT Equivalence models
I Overpressure contours from Boiling Liquid Expanding
Vapour Explosions
Toxics effects
I Graphs of toxic concentration profile
I Indoor and outdoor toxic dose prediction
I Reporting of distance to specific dose and concentration
I Calculated exposure time and use as averaging time
for passive dispersion effects
Phast Risk
Phast Risk allows you to combine the flammable and toxic
consequences from each scenario in your QRA model with
their likelihood to quantify the risk of fatalities. Phast Risk
allows you to take account of local population distribution,
Toxic and ammable impact
Phast Consequence is the world leading consequence analysis tool which can be used for all stages of design
and operation across a wide range of process industries
sources of ignition, land usage and local prevailing
weather conditions. It is designed to perform all the
analysis, data handling and results presentation elements
of a QRA within a structured framework.
Phast Risk allows you to quickly identify major risk con-
tributors so that time and efforts can be directed to miti-
gating these highest risk activities. Based on effects calcu-
lations and population vulnerabilities, Phast Risk can
integrate over all scenarios and weather conditions to esti-
mate the total risk. The established individual and societal
risk indicators are predicted by Phast Risk across your
facility and surrounding area using the classical QRA
methodology. Risk ranking reports can be produced at
points of strategic importance to show the relative influ-
ence of the various failure scenarios and their contribu-
tion to both the individual and societal risk metrics.
A key benefit of Phast Risk is the ability to identify major
risk contributors and differentiate these from incidents
with worst case consequences which might otherwise
dominate the safety reviews. Whilst medium scale inci-
dents have lesser consequences, they may have a higher
frequency, which, when combined with their hazardous
effects, generate a higher level of risk. Time and effort
directed to mitigating high consequence but often low
frequency events may not be well spent. Phast Risk helps
you direct this effort more effectively.
Phast Risk also provides facilities to help you manage
large quantities of input data, including scenarios,
parameters, wind roses, ignition and population, and
combine these in many ways. This is critical when looking
at sensitivity analyses and assessing the merits of a range
of risk reduction measures.
Benefits
I Facilitates cost reduction in terms of losses and insurance
I Allows optimization of plant and process design
I Assist in compliance with safety regulators
I Enables quicker response to hazardous incidents
I Improve engineers understanding of potential hazards
I Regular software upgrades incorporate industry experi-
ence and expertise, and advances in consequence mod-
elling technology
Managing process industry risk
Phast Risk, the most advanced tool available for quantifying process plant risks incorporating all the
capabilities of Phast Consequence
Dispersion Discharge
Liquid
flashing to
2-phase
Vapour
Liquid
Liquid
gas
Evaporating droplets
Evaporation
Rainout
Product mode
Phast
Phast
Consequence
Phast
Risk
Micro
Standard
Micro
Standard
Multi
Component Financial
Extensions
Explosion*
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Phast modes available and supported extensions, within each mode.
Phast subscribers can trust in our continuous develop-
ment of Phast, responding to advances in operational
experience and changing user requirements through
regular product review and upgrades. We are committed
to develop new extensions to our technology to meet
specific needs from our customers and these will be
improved and extended in each subsequent release.
Financial Extension
The Financial Consequence extension is used to assess
situations which present potential hazards not only to life
but also to the environment, property and business and
help quantifying their severity in financial terms. Phast
Financial helps you to estimate the cost of a particular
release of a given material under specified conditions.
The Financial Risk extension helps you to calculate the
broader financial risks associated with accidents and can
be used to help manage your business risk and assess
appropriate levels of insurance.
Blast Extension for Explosion Risk
The Blast extension permits more accurate explosion
modelling and thus better risk predictions. It provides
all the extra functionality required to assess overall risks
taking account of protection provided by different types
of structure and areas of congestion on your plant.
Models supported include the Multi Energy and Baker
Strehlow
Tang explosion models and a number of industry standard
vulnerability models.
Multi-Component Extension
The multi-component extension to Phast provides greater
accuracy for liquid or two-phase mixture releases com-
pared to the standard pseudo-component approach.
The composition of each component of the mixture
is calculated throughout the discharge and dispersion
phases of the release.
Phast is used by more than 1000 customers around the
world making it the most widely used application of its
kind. With dedicated technical support available from
5 locations globally, a comprehensive world-wide training
programme and regular updates available to maintained
customers, the service we offer our customers is second to
none.
Extensions to Phast
We are continuously improving our technology, adding extensions to support your specic engineering needs
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