Comparison of Six Widely-Used Dense gas dispersion models for three recent chlorine railcar accidents

Process Safety Progress

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 248-259

  Hanna, Steven ^a   Dharmavaram, Seshu ^b   Zhang, John ^c   Sykes, Ian ^d   Witlox, Henk ^e   Khajahnajafi, Shah ^f   Koslan, Kay ^g  

^a HANNA CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c Systems Analytics   (United States)

^d TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^e DNV GL   (Norway)

^f SAFER Systems   (United States)

^g DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorine railcar accidents; Comparisons of dense gas models; Dense gas dispersion; Festus; Graniteville; Macdona

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISPERSION (WAVES); GASES; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); PETROLEUM REFINING; RAIL MOTOR CARS; RAILROAD CARS; RATE CONSTANTS; SURFACE REACTIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

COMPARISONS OF DENSE GAS MODELS; DENSE GAS DISPERSION; FESTUS; GRANITEVILLE; MACDONA;

CHLORINE;

EID: 55249111992     PISSN: 10668527     EISSN: 15475913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prs.10257     Document Type: Article

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