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Kairos research collaboration enhancing the Digital HAZOP Process

By Ivan Rott on 14/06/23 10:26

Our office in Lyngby, Denmark (by DTU) is enjoying the internship with Mercedes Belda Ley from Spain, sponsored by Kairos' collaboration partner Vysus Group.

Topics: Research Partnerships
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Research from Kairos presented at ESREL and SAFEPROCESS conferences

By Ivan Rott on 22/09/22 11:23

Kairos' research team and our collaboration partners have provided several important research publications this summer. Functional modelling technology (by means of Multilevel Flow Modelling) and developed tools reason about the relation between cause and consequence in complex systems. Using the data from SCADA/control systems, guidance is provided to help the operator on root causes and how to mitigate them. 

 

Kairos internship fellow Mohammad Bakhshandeh presented his latest study paper at the ESREL-conference in Ireland. Mohammad is currently completing his Ph.D at University of Stavanger. His research address advanced situation awareness, Human Vigilance, and Sensitivity in complex and dynamic Industrial systems. When modern industrial systems are subjected to complex operating conditions, they generate higher potentials for a wide range of abnormalities, deviations, rare events, and incessant changes. Ad-SA based on enhanced human vigilance and sensitivity is gradually becoming a critical need to ensure high-resilience of such systems and contexts. Mohammad´s publication is available here.

 

The ESREL 2022 (32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference) was held between 28th of August - 1st of September 2022 at Dublin, Ireland with five days of intense exchange on scientific research and industry practices on the various themes and areas, underpinning this year title: “Understanding and Managing Risk and Reliability for a Sustainable Future”.

 

Secondly, our research team in Denmark, in close collaboration with Danish Technical University and University of Le-Harvre, Normandie, France, opened up for new improved fault diagnostics opportunities, with Kairos functional modelling technology, used for complex and hazardous plant production systems. Current tools have a limitation, namely that the timing aspect of the propagation to consequences is not considered. The presented research proposes a method to develop a timed causal analysis that will use timing information to filter the sequence of alarms in the SCADA/control systems to help operators assess the development of alarms in case of a critical event. The publication is available online here.

 

The SAFEPROCESS symposium is a major international gathering of leading exerts in the academia and industry from all over the world. It aims at strengthening the contact between academia and industry to build new networks and cultivate existing relations. SAFEPROCESS is organised every three years by IFAC.

Topics: Conferences Research
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Collaboration with UiS on Ph.D. for situational awareness

By Ida Eldor on 03/03/22 12:45

Kairos has recently gone into a collaboration with the University of Stavanger for a Ph.D. fellowship. Mohammad Bakhshandeh is completing his Ph.D. in industrial asset management with a focus on the resilience of engineering assets and industrial systems and situation awareness. Mohammad has a long background from working in the oil and gas industry both onshore and offshore. Mohammad is completing his Ph.D. to combine his extensive experience in the industry with higher education. 

Topics: Situational awareness Research