Other Industrial Fires and Explosions

When a liquid phase fuel is released from a storage tank, it forms a pool on the ground. In the presence of an ignition source, this pool ignites and forms a pool fire. Heat is released from pool fires due to fuel combustion. A number of heat transfer processes are kicked off including heat transfer from ground to the liquid in the pool and radiation heat transfer from the fire to the pool. These processes are accounted in our PoolFire model.

• Vapor Cloud Explosion (VCE)
• Flash fire
• Jet fire
• Vapor blow-down

Any combination of the above events occur in industry depending on the initiation type, chemicals involved and the strength of the storage tanks.

We have gained years of experience in these areas through government contracts and commercial projects. We developed engineering models for the above release scenarios encapsulating the most up to date calculation methods as well as our expertise. We provide consulting services based on these models to investigate such occurrences.