Question: 4 7 . Consider a LOPA scenario where a temperature control loop failure is the initiating event, the time at risk is 0 . 2

47. Consider a LOPA scenario where a temperature control loop failure is the initiating event, the time at risk is 0.2, and an operator is always present during operation. The final event is an overpressure that leads to a catastrophic vessel failure. Safeguards present are a properly sized pressure relief valve, a pressure control loop that closes the same steam valve that the temperature control loop operates, and a pressure control loop that operates from the same pressure sensor but opens a vent valve from the vessel. Remembering that not all safeguards are necessarily IPLs, what is the final event frequency for the scenario?
a.0.0002
b.0.00002
c.0.000002
d.0.0000002

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