PUBLICATIONS AND VIDEOS

CONTENTS:

This FABIG Newsletter comprises the following:

• Editorial: International Process Safety Week: Statistics from 1^st edition and what’s next
  Guillaume Vannier - The Steel Construction Institute (SCI)
• Large-scale experimental research of VCEs – A summary from one viewpoint
  D.M. Johnson, D. Allason, P.M. Cronin - DNV Spadeadam Research & Testing
  This paper summarises the advances in knowledge of Vapour Cloud Explosions (VCEs) gained through more than 45 years of large and full-scale testing, which demonstrated the importance of congestion and confinement, showed the differences between hydrocarbons and provided data for validating predictive models for the analysis and design of industrial facilities.
• The development and testing of a low inertia, rapid acting explosion relief panel for hydrogen applications
  M.V. Hasson¹, R. Crewe², C. Norris³, A. Davies⁴, M. Gilmore⁵, S. Lawrence³ - ¹Hasson Engineering Solutions Ltd, ²DNV Spadeadam Research & Testing, ³Rhino Engineering Group Ltd, ⁴Rhino HySafe Ltd, ⁵Rhino Systems Ltd
  This paper describes the engineering development of explosion relief panels for use in hydrogen applications, battery energy storage systems and related applications, which included the development of a pressure-impulse nomograph to assist designers and specifiers with system selection, as well as the full-scale explosion testing carried out validate their performance.
• CFD modelling of methane dispersion from buried pipeline leaks: experimental validation and hazard distance estimation
  S. Mohanty, S. Brennan, V. Molkov - Hydrogen Safety Engineering and Research Centre (HySAFER), University of Ulster
  This paper presents a CFD model validated against experimental data and able to accurately predict the dynamic formation and maximum extent of the flammable cloud resulting from a methane release from a buried pipeline, therefore enabling the derivation of hazard distances.