Decision support for managing pre-emergency situations in case of catalytic reforming unit

The article touches upon the problem of reducing the risk of accidents at industrial facilities, which is the priority task of industrial safety management. Currently, accident-free production systems rely on monitoring the process state parameters within the acceptable range and are limited to emergency protection systems, alarms, and locks. However, for complex industrial facilities, it is necessary to recognize pre-emergency situations, which allows predicting the occurrence of an emergency mode and preventing the process from stopping or reducing losses in case of an accident. To solve this problem, a system for managing pre-emergency situations is proposed, which is considered on the example of a catalytic reforming installation. It is based on a method for determining the parametric indicator of the object's state, an algorithm for the proposed system, databases of possible causes of pre-emergency and emergency conditions and a list of measures to eliminate them. This solution allows to set the proximity of the operating mode of the process equipment to the emergency mode, which greatly lowers the risk of accident at the facility, thereby reducing the downtime of the equipment and economic losses.