Spadeadam Test Site
Hazard
Awareness Training
Course dates:
23rd-24th October 2008
Day 1
Introduction and Purpose of the Course
Dispersion and Accumulation
- Potential causes and consequences of the loss of containment
- Nature of release, low or high momentum: liquid, two-phase or gas
- Gas dispersion and accumulation, liquid spreading and containment
- Effects of ventilation, wind, confinement
- Jet dispersion - gas and two-phase
- Effect of obstacles and confinement
- Model calculations for dispersion
- Demonstration of jet dispersion
Lunch
Liquid Spread
- Liquid Spread
- Model Calculations for liquid spread
- Dense Gas Dispersion
- Jet fires produced by high pressure releases of gas and /or liquid
- Fuel type
- Mitigation of jet fires
- Main factors influencing consequences
- Effect of thermal radiation and flame contact on structural members, vessels and pipes, potential for BLEVE's
- Structural response
- Demonstration of jet fires