Browsing Fakultet for ingeniørvitenskap (IV) by Author "Paltrinieri, Nicola"
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Real-Time Data for Risk Assessment in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
Paltrinieri, Nicola; Landucci, Gabriele; Salvo Rossi, Pierluigi (Chapter, 2017)Recent major accidents in the offshore oil and gas (O&G) industry have showed inadequate assessment of system risk and demonstrated the need to improve risk analysis. While direct causes often differ, the failure to update ... -
A review on hydrogen embrittlement and risk-based inspection of hydrogen technologies
Campari, Alessandro; Ustolin, Federico; Alvaro, Antonio; Paltrinieri, Nicola (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Hydrogen could gradually replace fossil fuels, mitigating the human impact on the environment. However, equipment exposed to hydrogen is subjected to damaging effects due to H2 absorption and permeation through metals. ... -
Risk and Consequences of Rapid Phase Transition for Liquid Hydrogen
Aursand, Eskil; Odsæter, Lars Hov; Skarsvåg, Hans Langva; Reigstad, Gunhild Allard; Ustolin, Federico; Paltrinieri, Nicola (Chapter, 2020)Safe handling of liquid hydrogen (LH2) has gained extra attention over the last years due to an increase in usage to mitigate climate changes. Rapid phase transition (RPT) is a potential safety concern when cryogens, like ... -
A Risk Aspect of Periodic Testing on Pressure Relief Valves
Lee, Shenae; Barros, Anne; Lundteigen, Mary Ann; Paltrinieri, Nicola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)A pressure relief valve (PSV) is a key safety barrier to prevent the catastrophic rupture of pressure equipment in a process plant. The safety function of a PSV is to open and relieve the pressure when the equipment pressure ... -
Risk Based Maintenance in hydrogen refuelling stations: Focus on Safety and Business Interruption risk
La Conca, Claudio (Master thesis, 2020)Hydrogen FCVs (Fuel Cell Vehicles) could be one of the options to switch from fossil fuels to renewable sources with no greenhouse gas emissions. The potential future increase of FCVs will lead to the development of a ... -
Risk-based inspection planning for hydrogen technologies: review of currents standards and suggestions for modification
Ustolin, Federico; Wan, Di; Alvaro, Antonio; Paltrinieri, Nicola (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The research addressing loss of integrity (LOI) for hydrogen containment technologies requires a multidisciplinary perspective. However, lack of collaboration between materials and process safety engineers is reflected in ... -
Safety barrier management: Risk‐based approach for the oil and gas sector
Hosseinnia Davatgar, Behnaz; Paltrinieri, Nicola; Bubbico, Roberto (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In the Oil and Gas sector, risk assessment and management have always been critical due to the possibility of significant accidents associated with the presence of large amounts of flammable hydrocarbons. Methods to provide ... -
‘Safety Hunting’: a Serious Gaming Approach for Industrial Safety Training
Tzioutzios, Dimitrios; Amati, Anita; Baboi, Elena; Paltrinieri, Nicola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Current operational safety training methods for the chemical process industry typically focus on acquiring and evaluating knowledge and technical know-how about safety measures and procedures. Although these are valuable ... -
Sensor Fusion for Detection and Localization of Carbon Dioxide Releases for Industry 4.0
Tabella, Gianluca; Di Martino, Yuri; Ciuonzo, Domenico; Paltrinieri, Nicola; Wang, Xiaodong; Salvo Rossi, Pierluigi (Chapter, 2022)This work tackles the distributed detection & localization of carbon dioxide (CO2) release from storage tanks caused by the opening of pressure relief devices via inexpensive sensor devices in an industrial context. A ... -
Serious Game development for Industrial Safety: The case of "Safety Hunting".
Amati, Anita (Master thesis, 2021) -
Serious games for industrial safety: An approach for developing resilience early warning indicators
Patriarca, Riccardo; Falegnami, Andrea; De Nicola, Antonio; Villani, Maria Luisa; Paltrinieri, Nicola (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The development of safety indicators represents an integral part of any safety management process. Safety indicators are generally classified as leading or lagging, respectively whether they are active (providing feedback ... -
The social structure of 70 years of literature on Human Reliability
Ramos, Marilia A; Patriarca, Riccardo; Paltrinieri, Nicola (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021) -
Spatio-Temporal Decision Fusion for Quickest Fault Detection Within Industrial Plants: The Oil and Gas Scenario
Tabella, Gianluca; Ciuonzo, Domenico; Paltrinieri, Nicola; Salvo Rossi, Pierluigi (Chapter, 2021)In this work, we present a spatio-temporal decision fusion approach aimed at performing quickest detection of faults within an Oil and Gas subsea production system. Specifically, a sensor network collectively monitors the ... -
Subsea Oil Spill Risk Management Based on Sensor Networks
Tabella, Gianluca; Salvo Rossi, Pierluigi; Paltrinieri, Nicola; Cozzani, Valerio (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in support of Dynamic Risk Assessment regarding oil spills still lacks a proper integration. WSNs enable prompt responses to such emergencies through an appropriate inspection, ... -
Subsea Risk Management Based on Sensor Networks
Tabella, Gianluca (Master thesis, 2019)Denne masteroppgaven omhandler evalueringen av undervannsrisikostyring for å forhindre oljeutslipp basert på analyse av informasjon mottatt fra sensorer i et underwater distributed sensor network. Oppgaven begynner med ... -
The Earthquake Disaster Risk in Japan and Iran and the Necessity of Dynamic Learning from Large Earthquake Disasters over Time
Ibrion, Mihaela; Paltrinieri, Nicola (Chapter, 2018)This book chapter targets how learning from large earthquakes disasters occurred and developed in Japan and Iran in the last 100 years. As research case studies, large earthquake disasters in Japan and Iran were investigated ... -
The influence of H2 safety research on relevant risk assessment
Ustolin, Federico; Paltrinieri, Nicola; Song, Guozheng (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Hydrogen is a valuable option of clean fuel to keep the global temperature rise below 2°C. However, one of the main barriers in its transport and use is to ensure safety levels that are comparable with traditional fuels. ... -
The Petro-HRA Guideline
Bye, Andreas; Laumann, Karin; Taylor, Claire; Rasmussen, Martin; Øie, Sondre; van de Merwe, Koen; Øien, Knut; Boring, Ronald; Paltrinieri, Nicola; Wærø, Irene; Massaiu, Salvatore; Gould, Kristian (IFE/HR/E;2017/001, Research report, 2017)The Petro-HRA method has been developed in an R and D project called “Analysis of human actions as barriers in major accidents in the petroleum industry, applicability of human reliability analysis methods”, Project no. ... -
Theories and Mechanism of Rapid Phase Transition
Ustolin, Federico; Odsæter, Lars Hov; Reigstad, Gunhild Allard; Skarsvåg, Hans Langva; Paltrinieri, Nicola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Light hydrocarbons and hydrogen can replace high-alkane fuels with the benefit of reduced CO2 emissions. Their liquefaction to a cryogenic state is one of the most suitable solutions for storage and transport. An unexpected ... -
Toward Risk-based Inspection of Hydrogen Technologies: a Methodology for the Calculation of the Damage Factor of Hydrogen Embrittlement
Campari, Alessandro; Alvaro, Antonio; Ustolin, Federico; Paltrinieri, Nicola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Hydrogen is considered a promising energy carrier to achieve the ambitious target of a zero-emission society in the forthcoming years. Despite its environmental advantages, hydrogen-induced material damages represent a ...