Application of Petri nets to performance evaluation of subsea blowout preventer system

Zengkai Liu; Yonghong Liu; Baoping Cai; Xiaolei Li; Xiaojie Tian

doi:10.1016/j.isatra.2014.07.003

Application of Petri nets to performance evaluation of subsea blowout preventer system

ISA Trans. 2015 Jan:54:240-9. doi: 10.1016/j.isatra.2014.07.003. Epub 2014 Oct 23.

Authors

Zengkai Liu¹, Yonghong Liu², Baoping Cai¹, Xiaolei Li¹, Xiaojie Tian¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Dongying, Shandong 257061, China.
² College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Dongying, Shandong 257061, China. Electronic address: liuyhupc@126.com.

PMID: 25442402
DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2014.07.003

Abstract

This paper presents an application of deterministic and stochastic Petri nets (DSPN) to evaluate the performance of subsea blowout preventer (BOP) system. The overall subsea BOP system is comprised of five mechanical subsystems and five electrical subsystems, which can be viewed as a series-parallel system. In regard to common cause failures, TimeNET 4.0 toolkit is utilized to develop and analyze the DSPN models. Availability and reliability of the subsea BOP system and its subsystems are obtained. Besides, the effects of failure rate and repair time of each component on system performance are researched.

Keywords: Common cause failures; Performance evaluation; Petri nets; Subsea blowout preventer.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't