ABSTRACT
The past four decades have experienced widespread economic progress and rapid advances in technology. In Taiwan, this has been reflected in the accelerating development of the petrochemical industry. Such progress has been accompanied by drawbacks in facilities, such as pollution and sporadic accidents. Various accidents have taken place due to the processes involved in the processing and storage of crude oil and its derivatives. Such accidents have resulted in a range of casualties such as the loss of life, personal injuries, damage to property, and economic setbacks, and have resulted in protests against the operation of the industry. This chapter utilizes root cause analysis in order to investigate a caprolactam storage tank accident through the adoption of a computational approach. Similar causes were found, which were regarded as the real cause of the caprolactum accidents through the previously described approaches. As reference, the false condition of caprolactum explosions which has been reported in below sections was chosen for other investigations into the causes of petrochemical accidents.
