An LPG filling station incident in Korea has been studied. The direct cause of the incident was concluded to be faulty joining of the couplings of the hoses during the butane unloading process from a tank lorry into an underground storage tank. The faulty connection of a hose to the tank lorry resulted in a massive leak of gas followed by catastrophic explosions. The leaking source was verified...

a School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manu. Eng., RMIT University, Bundoora, VIC 3083, Australia b School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Eng., University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia c Department of Building Services Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong d Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Org., Locked Bag 2001, Kirrawee DC, NSW 2232, Australia Email: chip...

This paper proposes a new method to build probabilistic fire demand model (PFDM) investigate the structural behaviour of steel pipe-rack located within an industrial installation and exposed localised fire. The PFDM will serve develop fragility functions be used either in risk assessment or fully engineering (PSFE) framework. cloud analysis (CA) was exploited based on different parameters (EDP)...

The use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and in particular Large Eddy Simulation (LES) codes to model fires provides an efficient tool for the prediction of large-scale effects that include plume characteristics, combustion product dispersion, and heat effects to adjacent objects. This paper illustrates the strengths of the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), an LES code developed by the Nation...

a Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Napoli, Italy [email protected] b Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combustione, Napoli, Italy [email protected] c Icimendue srl, Marcianise, Italy [email protected], mario.mensitieri@mensitier...

Abstract Experiments were conducted in a 1:20 arced tunnel model to investigate the effect of canyon cross wind on buoyancy-induced smoke flow characteristics pool fires, involving movement behaviour and longitudinal temperature distribution layer. The speed, fire location size varied. Results show that there are two special behaviours with source positioned at different field zones. When is ne...

background: a new microextraction method named dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (dllme) for determination of chloroform in pool water and blood of swimmers after swimming is described. methods: this method was performed based on coupling dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (dllme) with gas chromatog­raphy-mass spectrometry (gc-ms). methanol and trichloroethylenes were used as the d...