Determination of safety exclusion zone for LNG bunkering at fuel-supplying point

This paper also proposes a new approach of establishing realistic safety exclusion zones in LNG bunkering process. Research findings demonstrate that the implied hypothesis that the current practice of the probabilistic risk assessment focused on the population-independent analysis only is somewhat inadequate when applied to determining the safety exclusion zones as showing that the extent of safety exclusion zones tends to be set up unpractically wide. Instead, the proposed approach designed with the combination of population-dependant and independent analyses is proven to be useful in determining the zones more realistically. It may form a basis on which more useful safety-related standards and regulations on LNG bunkering can be built.