9. Abbreviations and acronyms
Dangerous event: Dangerous event at the center of a bow tie. In the study, the main FEs are loss of containment for capacity
RDE: secondary dread event: direct consequence of the dread event, the secondary dread event characterizes the source term of the accident.
PFD: Probability of Failure on Demand.
PhD: dangerous phenomenon: physical phenomenon that can cause damage to people, property or the environment.
UVCE/VCE: Unconfined Vapour Cloud Explosion/Vapor Cloud Explosion: term used to designate the same phenomenon in the present study — ignition of a gas cloud with overpressure effects and flash fire thermal effects.
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