System and method for protection system design support
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1. A method for evaluating a process system, said process system comprising a plurality of equipment including a protection device for protecting the process system, said method comprising the steps of:
- storing equipment description information describing each of said plurality of equipment in a computer database;
storing physical properties data pertaining to said equipment in said computer database;
linking said physical properties data with said equipment description information in said database;
serving content including some portion of said equipment information to an application executing on a user computer;
in response to a user selecting equipment information for analysis, automatically reading the physical properties data linked to said selected equipment information from the database and automatically determining an adequacy of the protection device for protecting the process system using the physical properties data linked to the selected equipment information;
automatically generating protection assessment information using results from said determining an adequacy step; and
storing some portion of said protection assessment information in said computer database or in another computer database.
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Abstract
A method and system for examining and safely evaluating process systems, including fluid pressure systems, to aid overpressure design and/or sizing of overpressure equipment. The system includes a server subsystem, a storage subsystem, an assessment subsystem, and optionally a report generation subsystem, including computer hardware and application software for supporting these subsystems.
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1. A method for evaluating a process system, said process system comprising a plurality of equipment including a protection device for protecting the process system, said method comprising the steps of:
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storing equipment description information describing each of said plurality of equipment in a computer database; storing physical properties data pertaining to said equipment in said computer database; linking said physical properties data with said equipment description information in said database; serving content including some portion of said equipment information to an application executing on a user computer; in response to a user selecting equipment information for analysis, automatically reading the physical properties data linked to said selected equipment information from the database and automatically determining an adequacy of the protection device for protecting the process system using the physical properties data linked to the selected equipment information; automatically generating protection assessment information using results from said determining an adequacy step; and storing some portion of said protection assessment information in said computer database or in another computer database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 27)
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16. A method for evaluating a process system, said process system comprising a plurality of equipment including a protection device for protecting the process system, said method comprising the steps of:
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storing equipment information representing each of said plurality of equipment in a computer database; serving content, via a public communication network, to an application executing on a user computer; serving at least a portion of said content, via the communication network, to another application executing on another user computer; automatically determining an adequacy of the protection device for protecting the process system utilizing some portion of the stored equipment information; automatically generating protection assessment information using results from said determining an adequacy step; storing some portion of said protection assessment information in said computer database or in another computer database; receiving updated equipment information from one or both of the user computer and the another user computer via the communication network; updating said equipment information in said computer database with said updated equipment information; automatically updating said protection assessment information by utilizing said updated equipment information when a user selects said updated equipment information without requiring manual entry by the user of physical property data pertaining to said updated equipment information; and automatically serving updated content to one or both of the user computer and the another user computer, wherein said content includes some portion of said protection device information and some portion of said protection assessment information, and wherein, said updated content includes some portion of said updated protection information. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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28. A method for evaluating a process system, said process system comprising a plurality of equipment including a protection device for protecting the process system, said method comprising the steps of:
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storing equipment information associated with each of said plurality of equipment in a computer database; storing one or more worksheets associated with one or more industry standards in said database; automatically determining an adequacy of the protection device for protecting the process system using the stored equipment information and said one or more worksheets; automatically generating an assessment of said process system with respect to said one or more industry standards using results from said determining an adequacy step; displaying said assessment on a user computer; storing one or more updated worksheets to replace one or more of said worksheets; automatically updating determining an adequacy of the protection device for protecting the process system in response to a user selecting one or more of said one or more updated worksheets for an impact analysis, said determining an adequacy using the stored equipment information and said selected one or more updated worksheets; automatically generating an impact assessment of said process system with respect to said selected one or more updated worksheets using results from said updating determining an adequacy step; and displaying said impact assessment on a user computer. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30)
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31. A method of using an evaluation system including a database and a processor, said evaluation system for evaluating a process system, said process system comprising a plurality of equipment including a protection device for protecting the process system, said method comprising the steps of:
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storing equipment information associated with each of said plurality of equipment in said database, wherein said equipment information includes physical properties data pertaining to said equipment in said database; storing one or more relationships between said equipment for describing the process system in said database; linking said physical properties data with said equipment in said database; storing, in advance of said evaluating the process system, one or more worksheets associated with one or more industry standards in said database; serving content to an application executing on a user computer located remotely from said evaluation system for displaying said relationships between said equipment for describing the process system in a manner understandable to a user of the user computer; using said processor for automatically determining an adequacy of the protection device for protecting the process system using all of the physical properties data, said relationships between said equipment, and said one or more worksheets; automatically generating an assessment of said process system with respect to said one or more industry standards using results from said determining an adequacy step; serving additional content to an application executing on the user computer for displaying said assessment to the user; automatically generating an impact analysis of said assessment when one or more of said worksheets is updated; and serving still additional content to an application executing on the user computer for displaying a result of said impact analysis to the user. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33)
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