Predicting outflow from high pressure vessels

Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 13-22

  Cumber, P S ^a  

^a Advantica Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consequence analysis; High pressure vessels; Outflow; Safety assessment package

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; FIRE PROTECTION; FLAMMABLE MATERIALS; HIGH PRESSURE PIPELINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PIPE FLOW; PLANT MANAGEMENT;

CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SAFETY ASSESSMENT PACKAGE;

PRESSURE VESSELS;

EID: 0034927267     PISSN: 09575820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/095758201531095     Document Type: Article

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