An example of a test method for vent sizing-OPPSD/SPI methodolgoy

Process Safety Progress

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 85-96

  Poteet III, Charles S ^a   Banks, Marvin L ^b  

^a GEO Specialty Chemicals   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CONTAINERS; DECOMPOSITION; DEFORMATION; PEROXIDES; PRESSURIZATION; VENTS;

EMERGENCY VENTING; FRAGMENTATION; STRUCTURAL STRENGTH; TEST METHOD;

PLASTICS INDUSTRY;

SAFETY;

EID: 0036610819     PISSN: 10668527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prs.680210203     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Banks, M., et al., "Safe Emergency Venting of Organic Peroxide Containers," EMRTC Report FR-98-07, Research conducted for the Organic Peroxides Producers Safety Division of the Society of the Plastics Industry (OPPSD/SPI), Energetic Materials Research & Testing Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, February 1998.
2. Banks, M., et al., "Effects of Heating Rate on Organic Peroxide Reactions," EMRTC Report FR99-03, Research conducted for the OPPSD/SPI, Energetic Materials Research & Testing Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, March 1999.
3. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49 CFR, Subtitle "B" (Other Regulations Relating to Transportation), Chapter 1 (Research and Special Programs Administration, D.O.T.), Subchapter "C" Hazardous Materials Regulation Part 178 (Specifications for Packagings), Subpart "N" Intermediate Bulk Container Performance-Oriented Standards and Subpart "O" Testing of Intermediate Bulk Containers.
4. COSMOS/M, Finite Element Analysis System, Structural Research and Analysis Corporation, 12121 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025, October 1996.