• Title/Summary/Keyword: Dangerous cargo handling facilities

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Numerical Study on Atmospheric Dispersion and Fire Possibility in Toluene Leakage (톨루엔 누출 시 대기확산 및 화재가능성에 관한 수치해석 연구)

  • Ko, Jae Sun;Kim, Joo-Seok
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2017
  • This study examined the risk of accidents when handling hazardous materials in hazardous materials storage facilities without safety facilities. In the case of illegal dangerous cargo containers, the burning rate is very fast in the case of fire, which leads to explosions, that are damaging and difficult to control. In addition, accidents that occur in flammable liquid hazardous materials are caused mostly by accidents that occur in the space due to leakage. Therefore, the variables that affect these accidents were derived and the influence of these variables was investigated. Numerical and computational fluid dynamics programs were used to obtain the following final results. First, when a flammable liquid leaks into a specific space, it is influenced by temperature and relative humidity until a certain concentration (lower limit of combustion) is reached. In the case of temperature, it was found that the reaching time was shorter than the flash point In addition, the effect of variables on pool fire accidents of leakage tanks is somewhat different, but the variables that have the largest influence are the wind speed. Therefore, it is expected that the results of this study will be used as basic data for similar numerical analysis and it will provide useful numerical information about the accidental leakage of hazardous materials under various research conditions.