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Amuay accident 2012 is one of similar accidents happened in Buncefield (2005), Jaipur and Puerto Rico (2009), respectively. Since experimental reproduction of such accidents is not always possible numerical simulations help a lot to understand the scenarios on qualitative basis. In this work the accident is reproduced with a CFD model which takes into account the heaviness of the gas (LPG), wind and gravity driven spread. The leak was reported to be located near a number of spherical tanks. The ignition source was presumably the running vehicles on a nearby street. A part of the refinery containing the locations of leakage and ignition was considered as computational domain. The road is located at the eastern boarder. The area contains different tanks, whose height was estimated due to a lack of available data. The diameter was extrapolated from the available image data. Further, a grid of walls is located between a number of tanks. The total domain has a size of 750 m x 400 m x 50 m. An unstructured mesh was created using tetrahedral elements with prism layers at the ground to improve mesh quality in the boundary layer. The mesh has a total number of 775 686 cells.
Flame temperature (T), surface emissive power (SEP) of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) pool fires (d = 1 m, 6.1 m, 30 m) are investigated by CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation and compared with experimental results.
Time averaged flame temperatures of T = 1320 K, T = 1298 K and T = 1281 K are obtained. Surface emissive power (SEP) of 55 kW=m2, 130 kW=m2 and 230 kW=m2 are predicted.
Most of the measurements of temperatures in large pool fires are indirect and present a number of complexities due to the interactions of convection, radiation and soot blockage. In the present work these influences for two organic peroxide [tert-butyl peroxybenzoate (TBPB) and tert-butyl peroxy-2-ethylhexanoate (TBPEH)] pool fires are analysed.
Thermocouple measured temperature in the clear flame zone i.e. combustion zone are found to be 250-400 K lower than from the thermographic measurements. The convective and radiative heat flux contributions from the fire on temperature measurements are discussed. CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulations have been performed for large pool fires and the predicted time averaged flame temperatures were found to be in qualitative agreement with
measurements due to the stoichiometric combustion model used in the present simulations.
Die sichere Lagerung und der Transport von Flüssigwasserstoff (LH2) verlangen nach verlässlichen Abschätzungen möglicher Risiken durch Feuer oder Explosion. Aufgrund des breiten Explosionsbereichs (4 Vol.-% - 74 Vol.-%) reagiert Wasserstoff sehr schnell und produziert hohe Flammentemperaturen. Da Wasserstoffflammen ruß- bzw. farblos sind, ist Wärmestrahlung im Fernfeld kein Risikofaktor. Allerdings stellen die hohe lokale Wärmestrahlung und die nicht sichtbaren Flammen eine Gefahr für Menschen und Infrastruktur in der Nähe dar. Es ist daher notwendig die Gefahren von LH2-Feuern sorgfältig zu bewerten.
Einerseits sind experimentelle Untersuchungen verschiedener Szenarien teuer, andererseits können sie teilweise auch praktisch nicht durchführbar sein. Numerische Simulationen dieser Szenarien können ein Ausweg aus diesem Problem sein. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein solcher Ansatz genutzt, um große Brandszenarien mit LH2 mittels CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) zu modellieren und so die notwendigen Sicherheitsabstände abzuschätzen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf der Simulation von Jet- und Pool-Feuerszenarien mit einem kommerziellen CFD-Code (Ansys CFX). Die benötigten geometrischen Modelle werden für Jet- und Pool-Feuer erstellt und mit den nötigen Randbedingungen implementiert. Wichtige Submodelle für chemische Reaktionen (Einschritt- und detaillierte Modelle), Verbrennung (Eddy-Dissipation- und Flamelet-Modell) und Strahlung (Discrete-Transfer-Modell) werden genutzt. Die maximal simulierten Flammentemperaturen liegen bei ~2100 K für Jet-Feuer und ~2300 K für Pool-Feuer. Um Aussagen zu thermischen Sicherheitsabständen zu treffen, wurden die Spezifischen Ausstrahlungen (SEP) ermittelt und anschließend entsprechende Positionsfaktoren gewählt, um verlässliche Sicherheitsabstände zu berechnen. Je nach Bedarf können CFD-Modelle sowohl für qualitative als auch für quantitative Risikobewertungen von LH2-Großbränden genutzt werden.
Final report of research activities at BAM concerning large scale fireballs of organic peroxides (OP). New models for OP fireball diameter, duration, height and Surface Emmissive Power (SEP) are proposed and discussed based on a large number of large-scale and small-scale experiments using Di-tert-butylperoxide (DTBP) as a liquid OP and heptane as a liquid hydrocarbon fuel. Finally, CFD simulations are used to predict the fireball parameters: diameter, duration, height and SEP. Also the impact on the German storage regulations for organic peroxides are discussed.
Industrial fire and explosion hazards are most often also associated with the dispersion of toxic substances.
These substances can be gases, liquids, solids or in form of aerosols. The critical toxic exposure limits to People and enviroment from such substances are regulated by the concerned authorities of the countries. In order to comply with the defined regulation estimation of such critical limits must be carried out by different semi-empirical and phenomenological models/methods for risk assessment.
Many of such methods provide a qualitative estimation of time and space dependent extrimities of toxicity. The overwhelm development of computational capacity has made it possible to perform Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation by solving the three-dimensional transport equations for mass momentum and species in lower and upper atmosphere, respectively. CFD simulation not only provides a detailed 3D distribution of toxic particulates/gases in the neighbourhood of the plant but also helps to study the worst-case sceanrios. In the past several small- and large-scale accidents occured in oil and gas plants in different parts of the world including the recent one in Rheinland refinery near Cologne in Germany. This work deals with this accident and provides a methodology to predict the critical exposure limits of smoke emitted by a toluene tank fire by means of CFD simulation.