Spadeadam Test Site
Hazard
Awareness Training
Course dates:
23rd-24th October 2008
Day 2
Fire Hazards continued
- Link from spillage of liquids to pool fires. Difference between bunded and non – bunded fires
- Tank fires
- Main factors affecting consequences
- Mitigation of pool fires
- Fuel type
- Smoke
- Model calculations
- Demonstrations of diesel pool fire
- Demonstrations of methanol pool fire
Explosions
- Important factors in the generation of overpressure
- Importance of safety systems
- Effect of congestion
- Effect of confinement
Lunch
Explosions continued
- Control and mitigation of explosions
- Modelling of explosions
- Structural response to explosions
- Effect of explosions on panels, transfer of load to other structures
- Generation of missiles
- Demonstration of confined explosion
Miscellaneous Hazards
A number of special cases exist such as rapid phase transitions of LNG, BLEVE's from pressurised liquid storage, fireballs and flash fires and finally propagating fractures in transmission pipelines.