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Making the business case for process safety using value-at-risk concepts.

Jayming S Fang1, David M Ford, M Sam Mannan

  • 1Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3122, USA.

Journal of Hazardous Materials
|November 3, 2004
PubMed
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Chemical process safety benefits from quantitative risk assessment. Applying financial value at risk (VaR) concepts improves decision-making by bridging the gap between technical risk data and business leaders.

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Area of Science:

  • Chemical Engineering
  • Risk Management
  • Financial Modeling

Background:

  • Chemical process safety has advanced significantly with sophisticated risk assessment tools.
  • Current risk assessment outputs (ranked lists, matrices) are suboptimal for business decisions.
  • Value at Risk (VaR), a financial tool for uncertainty valuation, offers a new perspective.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To bridge the gap between quantitative process risk assessment and business decision-making.
  • To introduce Value at Risk (VaR) concepts to chemical process hazard analysis.
  • To demonstrate the application of VaR in chemical industry risk evaluation.

Main Methods:

  • Integrating quantitative risk assessment techniques with Value at Risk (VaR) principles.

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  • Analyzing the stochastic behavior of chemical process components.
  • Applying VaR to hazard analysis within the chemical process industry.

    • Main Results:

    • Quantitative risk assessment results can be translated into a format more suitable for business decisions.
    • VaR provides a probabilistic measure of potential gains or losses in chemical processes.
    • Basic examples illustrate the practical application of VaR in chemical hazard analysis.

    Conclusions:

    • Combining quantitative risk assessment with VaR enhances the utility of risk data for business leaders.
    • VaR offers a valuable framework for managing uncertainty in chemical process risk.
    • This integrated approach facilitates better risk management and policy decisions in the chemical industry.