2011 Spring Meeting & 7th Global Congress on Process Safety

Session: Fires, Explosions and Reactive Chemicals

Chair

Dr. Erdem A. Ural, Loss Prevention Science and Technologies, Inc.

Co-Chair

John F. Murphy, Process Safety Services

Presentations

10:00 AM

(13a) Kinetic Modeling of the Reactions Involved in the T2 Explosion
Ronald J. Willey, Michael B. Cutlip, H Scott Fogler

10:30 AM

(13b) Safety Studies for Reformatsky Chemistry In a Meso-Scale Continuous Process System
Gabriel Loh, Salim M. Shaik, Loretta Wong, Paul Nicholas Sharratt

11:00 AM

(13c) Inherently Safer Reactor Design for Complex Reactions Based On Calorimetry Studies
Subramanya Nayak, Simon P. Waldram, Alba Lucia Pineda, Maria Papadaki, Lina Saenz, Victor Carreto, William Rogers, Sam Mannan

11:30 AM

LUNCH

01:30 PM

(13d) Comparison of the Results From Six Calorimeters In the Determination of the Thermokinetics of a Model Reaction
Wassila Benaissa, Douglas Carson

02:00 PM

(13e) Improvement of BLEVE Overpressure Method Using Historical Data
Fei Chen, Elizabeth M. Lutostansky, Joan M. Schork

02:30 PM

(13f) Ignition Behavior of Methane-Oxygen Mixtures at Elevated Conditions
Thomas Khakpour, Niko Holst, Joerg Steinbach, Kai Holtappels

03:30 PM

(13g) Comparison of Deflagration to Detonation Transition (DDT) Criteria with Test Data From Unconfined Ethylene-Air Vapor Cloud Explosion
J. Kelly Thomas, Jihui Geng, Craig Eastwood

04:00 PM

(13h) Limited Applicability of Gas Explosion Venting Due to Turbulence Generation
Marco Poli, Rainer Grätz, Volkmar Schröder

04:30 PM

(13i) On the Potential of Mitigating Vapour Cloud Explosions Using Flame Inhibitors
Kees Van Wingerden, Pol Hoorelbeke