Session: Fire and Explosion Hazards (2012 Spring Meeting)

Monday, April 2, 2012: 10:30 AM

361 (George R. Brown Convention Center)

Description:

This session invites papers on recent developments in evaluating fire and explosion hazards in chemicals processing, storage and transportation. Example areas of new interest include flammable liquid transport and storage, the distinction between fire point and flash point in the evaluation of intermediate bulk containers (IBCs), and methods for predicting or modeling the behavior of non-homogeneous mixtures.

Sponsor:

46th Annual Loss Prevention Symposium (LPS)

Chair:

Trey Morrison
Email: tmorrison@exponent.com

Co-Chair:

Farzin Sabet
Email: sabet.ff@pg.com

- indicates paper has an Extended Abstract file available on CD.

10:30 AM

(9a) Flammability Limits of HYDROGEN and ITS MIXTURES with Hydrocarbons In AIR AT Atmospheric and SUB-Atmospheric PRESSURES
Hai Le, Subramanya Nayak and Dr M. Sam Mannan

11:00 AM

(9b) New Correlations for Predicting Flammability Limits of Pure Materials and Mixtures
Ting Ma, Qingsheng Wang and Michael Larranaga

11:30 AM

(9c) Explosion Hazards of Multicomponent Combustible Gas Mixtures
Alfonso F. Ibarreta

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