Estimation of safety distances in the vicinity of fuel gas pipelines

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 24-31

  Sklavounos, Spyros ^a   Rigas, Fotis ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Consequence modeling; Event Tree Analysis; Gas dispersion; Jet fire; Pipeline safety; Safety distance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISPERSIONS; DISSOLUTION; GAS FUELS; GAS PIPELINES; HEAT RADIATION; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; MIXTURES; NATURAL GAS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CONSEQUENCE MODELING; GAS DISPERSION; JET FIRES; PIPELINE SAFETY; SAFETY DISTANCES; SAFETY TREE ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

GAS PIPELINE; MODELING; PIPELINE; PROCESS INDUSTRY; SAFETY;

EID: 26844562556     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2005.05.002     Document Type: Article

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