Evaluation of hazard range for the natural gas jet released from a high-pressure pipeline: A computational parametric study

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 522-530

  Dong, Gang ^a   Xue, Lin ^b   Yang, Yun ^b   Yang, Juntao ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Shanghai Research Institute of Building Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Hazard range; High pressure pipeline; Jet release; Natural gas; Parametric computations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; GAS CONCENTRATION; GAS JET; GAS RELEASE RATES; HOLE DIAMETER; INTEGRAL MODEL; OPERATION PRESSURE; PARAMETRIC COMPUTATIONS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PIPE DIAMETER; PIPELINE LENGTH; POWER CURVES; RELEASE RATE; SIZE AND SHAPE; TIME PARAMETER; TURBULENT MIXING; UNSTEADY STATE; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DECISION MAKING; HAZARDS; HIGH PRESSURE PIPELINES; NATURAL GAS; PIPELINES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

GASES;

EID: 77955698921     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2010.04.007     Document Type: Article

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