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http://dx.doi.org/10.12925/jkocs.2018.35.3.606

Prediction of Explosion Risk for Natural Gas Facilities using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)  

Han, Sangil (Department of Chemical Engineering, Changwon National University)
Lee, Dongwook (School of Chemical & biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University)
Hwang, Kyu-Suk (School of Chemical & biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University)
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Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology / v.35, no.3, 2018 , pp. 606-611 More about this Journal
Abstract
City natural gas is classified flammable hazardous gas and should be secured according to explosion risk assessment determined by Industrial Standard KS C IEC. In this study, leak size, ventilation grade and effectiveness were adopted to the KS C IEC for risk assessment in natural gas supply system. To evaluate the applicability of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the risk assessment was studied for four different conditions using hypothetical volume($V_z$) valuesfrom gas leak experiments, KS C IEC calculation, and CFD simulation.
Keywords
Natural gas; risk assessment; hypothetical volume; hazardous area; CFD;
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