TY - JOUR A1 - Dalitz, F. A1 - Maiwald, Michael A1 - Guthausen, G. T1 - Considerations on the design of flow cells in by-pass systems for process analytical applications and its influence on the flow profile using NMR and CFD JF - Chemical engineering science N2 - The design of sample flow cells, commonly used in on-line analytics and especially for medium resolution NMR spectroscopy (MR-NMR) in low magnetic fields, was experimentally and theoretically investigated by 1H NMR and numerical simulations. The flow pattern was characterised to gain information about the residence time distribution and mixing effects. Both 1H NMR imaging and spectroscopy were used to determine the characteristics of flow cells and their significance for on-line measurements such as reaction monitoring or hyphenated separation spectroscopy. The volume flow rates investigated were in the range from 0.1 to 10 ml/min, typically applied in the above mentioned applications. The special characteristics of flow cells for MR-NMR were revealed by various NMR experiments and compared with CFD simulations and to flow cells commonly used in high-field NMR. The influence of the design of the inlet and outlet on the flow pattern was investigated as well as the effect of the length of the cell. For practical use, a numerical estimation of the inflow length was given. In addition, it was shown how experiments on the polarisation build-up revealed insight into the flow characteristics in MR-NMR. KW - Chemical processes KW - Imaging KW - Instrumentation KW - Process control KW - NMR KW - CFD PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2012.03.042 SN - 0009-2509 VL - 75 SP - 318 EP - 326 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-25792 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eberwein, Robert A1 - Rogge, Andreas A1 - Behrendt, F. A1 - Knaust, Christian T1 - Dispersion Modeling of LNG-Vapor on Land – A CFD-Model Evaluation Study JF - Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries N2 - Based on methane from renewable resources, LNG is an alternative fuel for heavy and long-distance traffic in land transport. Contrary to its positive properties, the fuel contains risks from an explosion and extremely low temperatures for personal and infrastructure safety. CFD-models are suitable for doing risk analyses for arbitrary scenarios. For examining how to model for risk research the dispersion of LNG-vapor, this paper contains a model variant study, with an evaluation by experiments. This paper describes the use of the CFD-code ANSYS Fluent for simulating experiments of the ‘LNG Safety Program Phase II‘. The content of the well-documented experiments was the research of the vaporization rate of LNG on land and the dispersion of LNG-vapor in the air. Based on the comparison to two experiments, overall 12 CFD-model variants with varying thermal and turbulence parameters were examined how they affect the transient LNG-vapor dispersion in air. The definition of turbulence-boundary-condition at the domain borders had the biggest impact on modeling, followed by the turbulence model. The most accurate model variant had been applied for observing the spreading behavior of LNG-vapor in the air after evaporation on land and analyzing the influence of the LNG-composition to the dispersion. The results show that the mixture of LNG-vapor and the air in the free field is cooler than the ambient air and spreads like a heavy gas on the ground. KW - LNG KW - CFD KW - Heavy gas KW - Model evaluation PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2020.104116 VL - 65 SP - 104116 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-50697 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Habib, Abdel Karim A1 - Lohrer, Christian T1 - Numerical simulation and validation of pyrotechnic smoke emissions JF - Journal of pyrotechnics KW - Theatrical pyrotechnic articles KW - Aerosols KW - CFD PY - 2012 SN - 1082-3999 IS - 31 SP - 10 EP - 21 CY - Whitewater, Colo. AN - OPUS4-26824 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Habib, Abdel Karim A1 - Schalau, Bernd A1 - Schmidt, Dirk T1 - Comparing tools of varying complexity for calculating the gas dispersion JF - Process safety and environmental protection N2 - When handling flammable and/or toxic liquids or gases, the gas dispersion following a release of substance is a scenario to be considered in the risk assessment to determine the lower flammability distance (LFD) and toxicity thresholds. In this work a comparison of different gas dispersion tools of varying complexity ranging from a simple Gaussian model over a boundary layer model (BLM) and a Lagrangian model to CFD (in this case ANSYS CFX v14) is presented. The BLM covers the special case of liquid releases with formation of a pool. It does not only solve the gas dispersion but also calculates the evaporating mass flow out of the pool. The simulation values are compared to each other and to experimental data resulting mainly from our own open air experiments covering the near field and carried out on the Test Site Technical Safety of BAM (BAM-TTS) for different release types (pool evaporation, gas release) and topologies. Other validation data were taken from literature and cover large scale experiments in the range of several 100 m. KW - Gas dispersion KW - Modeling KW - CFD KW - Hazard assessment KW - Gauss KW - Lagrange PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2014.02.014 SN - 0957-5820 SN - 1744-3598 SP - 1 EP - 6(?) PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-30529 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja T1 - Modellierung des Single Burning Item Tests JF - Bauphysik KW - Modellierung KW - CFD KW - Brandszenarien KW - Single Burning Item Test PY - 2004 UR - http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/dt/journals/alphabeticIndex/2094/?sID=b7d55aa63bd724fffa08392fd4e98c27 SN - 0171-5445 SN - 1437-0980 N1 - Geburtsname von Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja: Hofmann, A. - Birth name of Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja: Hofmann, A. VL - 26 IS - 5 SP - 246 EP - 251 PB - Ernst CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-4643 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja A1 - Dülsen, Steffen T1 - Gefahren bei Busbränden - Empfehlungen zur Verbesserung der Sicherheit JF - techn N2 - Der schwere Busbrand 2008 in der Nähe von Hannover, bei dem 20 der 32 Fahrgäste ums Leben kamen, hat gezeigt, dass die aktuellen Brandschutzvorschriften für Busse die Selbstrettung der Passagiere nicht gewährleisten können. In einem von der Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt) geförderten Forschungsprojekt wurden die aktuellen Brandschutzvorschriften untersucht und Empfehlungen zur Verbesserung der Brandsicherheit in Bussen entwickelt. Es wurden zahlreiche Versuche im kleineren Maßstab an Busmaterialien durchgeführt und Vergleiche zu den Anforderungen an Schienenfahrzeuge gezogen sowie Versuche im Realmaßstab an Bussitzen und im Motorraum eines Linienbusses. Begleitend zu den experimentellen Untersuchungen wurden Brandverläufe berechnet, um besonders gefährliche Szenarien zu identifizieren und mögliche Maßnahmen zu untersuchen. KW - Busbrände KW - Experimentelle Untersuchungen KW - CFD KW - Empfehlungen PY - 2012 SN - 2191-0073 VL - 2 IS - 9 SP - 33 EP - 40 PB - Springer-VDI-Verl. CY - Düsseldorf AN - OPUS4-27389 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klippel, Alexander A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Mücke, Olaf A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Dust concentration measurements during filling of a silo and CFD modeling of filling processes regarding exceeding the lower explosion limit JF - Journal of loss prevention in the process industries N2 - Measurement and numerical simulation of local dust concentrations over time in a vessel can only be done with some uncertainty due to the complexity of the behavior of dust/air mixtures. Dust concentration was measured in a 50 m³ vessel and compared to simulations with a commercial CFD code. A 50 m³ silo was used with two different filling methods. In one setup dust was conveyed with pneumatic filling at the top. The other filling was done with pressurized air and a homogenous injection via eight nozzles. Experiments were repeated three to four times with two kinds of dusts and the results were used to evaluate reproducibility of dust concentration measurements over time in a vessel depending on the filling method. Dust concentrations over time varied up to 30% from the average for homogenous injection and even more for pneumatic filling. Numerical investigations were done with maize starch. Measured concentrations were compared to simulated ones with the commercial CFD code ANSYS CFX R14 using an Euler/Lagrange approach. Drag force, turbulent dispersion force, particle size distribution, particle surface area and particle/particle interaction were modeled. A general agreement of measurement and simulation was achieved. Numerical simulations of filling processes were used to predict parts of the vessel where the lower explosion limit is reached and exceeded. This could help to improve dust explosion protection, if it is used to find configurations where the dust concentration exceeds the lower explosion limit only in small parts of the vessel during filling, e.g. using different injection points or injection angles. The volume where LEL is reached or exceeded in a 50 m³ silo is shown for pneumatic and homogenous filling. Volume of combustible atmosphere in the vessel over time is compared for two pneumatic filling configurations and one worst-case homogenous injection configuration. KW - CFD KW - Euler/Lagrange approach KW - Dust explosion protection KW - Dust concentration measurement KW - Dust explosion KW - Dustiness KW - Dispersion KW - Venting PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2014.02.006 SN - 0950-4230 SN - 1873-3352 VL - 29 SP - 122 EP - 137 PB - Butterworth CY - Guildford, Surrey AN - OPUS4-30330 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mishra, Kirti Bhushan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter T1 - Spill-over characteristics of peroxy-fuels: Two-phase CFD investigations JF - Journal of loss prevention in the process industries N2 - Two-phase CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) model for characterising the spill-over/dispersion of peroxy-fuels is presented. The model is independent of type and burning rate of the spilled/dispersed fuel and considers only overflow Reynolds number (Re) to characterise the spill/dispersion behaviour. Additional simulations are performed for LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) dispersion and it is found that the model can be used for different fuels within a defined range of Re. Different scenarios with Re = 100 to 3 × 105 are investigated covering a wide range of mass flow rates, opening sizes and viscosities. Depending on Lower Flammability Limits (LFL) of the fuels spill/dispersion (vapour cloud) diameters (DCFD) and heights (hCFD) are predicted. A generalised correlation between DCFD and Re is established to predict the dispersion occurring at varying scales. The model is validated by: (1) conducting an extensive grid independent study; (2) comparing the results with the existing analytical methods and (3) comparing against the standard field test data on LNG dispersions. KW - Spill-over KW - Dispersion KW - Peroxy-fuels KW - CFD KW - Reynolds number KW - Liquefied natural gas PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2014.02.014 SN - 0950-4230 SN - 1873-3352 VL - 29 SP - 186 EP - 197 PB - Butterworth CY - Guildford, Surrey AN - OPUS4-30481 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mishra, Kirti Bhushan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter T1 - Underground gas pipeline explosion and fire: CFD based assessment of foreseeability JF - Journal of natural gas science and engineering N2 - Scenarios of underground gas pipeline failure, crater formation, dispersion of gas, explosion and subsequent fires are investigated with semi-empirical and with CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) modelling. In order to strengthen the accident based learning approaches present investigations are performed in the context of recent GAIL (Gas Authority of India Limited) natural gas pipeline incident occurred in India. The foreseeability of damages to lives of people and assets due to explosion overpressure and thermal radiation are assessed. The released gas is considered as slightly dense-than-air i.e. 1.5 times. Depending on the LFL (Lower Flammability Limit) of gas the dispersion diameter and heights are predicted which followed the visual evidences appropriately. The model was furthermore tested with an even denser medium and was found to be worked well there too. The estimated explosion overpressures with the standard methods and also with CFD reproduced the scenario nicely. The effects of congestion VBR (Volume Blockage Ratio) in form of vegetation on stable atmospheric boundary layer flow is analysed and its contribution towards turbulence and hazard enhancement is studied. It is found that the major source of fatalities was higher thermal radiation emitted by pool fires of methane. The estimated thermal safety distances clearly demonstrate the ignorance/under estimation of likelihood and consequence of such hazardous events. For such incidents CFD demonstrated a strong capability to assess the pre or/and post events foreseeabilities within a reasonable amount of time and with an acceptable level of accuracy meeting the industrial needs for risk analysis. KW - Natural gas KW - Underground pipeline KW - Dense gas dispersion KW - Explosion and fire KW - CFD KW - Safety distance PY - 2015 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2015.04.010 SN - 1875-5100 VL - 24 SP - 526 EP - 542 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] AN - OPUS4-33671 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schalau, Bernd A1 - Schalau, Sebastian T1 - Freistrahlmodellierung für geringe Austrittsgeschwindigkeiten JF - Technische Sicherheit N2 - Mit der zurzeit laufenden Überarbeitung der VDI Richtlinie 3783 Blatt 1 und dem Modellwechsel auf ein Lagrange'sches Partikelmodell ist das Fahnenmodell PLURIS in den Fokus der Störfallauswirkungsberechnungen gelangt. PLURIS wird schon seit Längerem zur Berechnung der Abgasfahnenüberhöhung von Schornsteinen und Kühltürmen eingesetzt und ist Grundlage der neuen VDI Richtlinie 3782 Blatt 3 (Entwurf), lm Gegensatz zu den bekannten Freistrahlmodellen zur Berechnung der Ausbreitung unter Druck stehender Gase, wird bei PLURIS nicht vorausgesetzt, dass die Strahlgeschwindigkeit deutlich größer als die Windgeschwindigkeit ist. Mit steigender Rechnerleistung wird auch die Gasausbreitungsberechnung mittels CFD-Programmen für die Praxis interessanter. Für eine genauere Berechnung der Geschwindigkeits- und Konzentrationsverteilung im Freistrahl wird eine feine Gitterauflösung erforderlich, die aber zu langen Rechenzeiten führt, wenn die Ausbreitung eines toxischen Gases in Entfernungen von mehreren 100 m berechnet werden soll. Durch die Kopplung der CFD-Berechnung mit einem Fahnen- oder Freistrahlmodell kann der Rechenaufwand reduziert werden. KW - Freistrahlmodellierung KW - PLURIS KW - CFD PY - 2020 VL - 10 IS - 6 SP - 17 EP - 21 AN - OPUS4-56892 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -