A simple and reliable approach for sizing the hazard area potentially affected by a jet fire as consequence of the failure of high-pressure pipeline is proposed. A release rate model, taking pipeline operation properties and source release properties into account, is coupled with SLAB dispersion model and point source radiation model to calculate the hazard distance. The hazard distance is set beyond the distance at which a low chance of fatality can occur to people exposed and a wooden structure is not expected to burn due to radiation heat of jet fire. The comparison between three gases with different physico-chemical properties (i.e. natural gas, hydrogen, ethylene) is shown. The influence of pipeline operating parameters, such as: pressure, pipeline diameter and length, hole size, on the hazard area for the three gases is evaluated. Finally, a simple correlation is proposed for calculating the hazard distance as function of these parameters.

Jet fire consequence modeling for high-pressure gas pipelines / Coccorullo, Ivano; Russo, Paola. - STAMPA. - 1790:(2016). (Intervento presentato al convegno International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2016, ICCMSE 2016 tenutosi a Athens, Greece nel MAR 17-20, 2016) [10.1063/1.4968714].

Jet fire consequence modeling for high-pressure gas pipelines

RUSSO, PAOLA
2016

Abstract

A simple and reliable approach for sizing the hazard area potentially affected by a jet fire as consequence of the failure of high-pressure pipeline is proposed. A release rate model, taking pipeline operation properties and source release properties into account, is coupled with SLAB dispersion model and point source radiation model to calculate the hazard distance. The hazard distance is set beyond the distance at which a low chance of fatality can occur to people exposed and a wooden structure is not expected to burn due to radiation heat of jet fire. The comparison between three gases with different physico-chemical properties (i.e. natural gas, hydrogen, ethylene) is shown. The influence of pipeline operating parameters, such as: pressure, pipeline diameter and length, hole size, on the hazard area for the three gases is evaluated. Finally, a simple correlation is proposed for calculating the hazard distance as function of these parameters.
2016
International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2016, ICCMSE 2016
hydrogen; natural gas; pipelines; radiative flows; physics and astronomy (all)
04 Pubblicazione in atti di convegno::04b Atto di convegno in volume
Jet fire consequence modeling for high-pressure gas pipelines / Coccorullo, Ivano; Russo, Paola. - STAMPA. - 1790:(2016). (Intervento presentato al convegno International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2016, ICCMSE 2016 tenutosi a Athens, Greece nel MAR 17-20, 2016) [10.1063/1.4968714].
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