Heavy Gas and Risk Assessment — II: Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Heavy Gases and Risk Assessment, Frankfurt am Main, May 25–26, 1982

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Open and Controversial Topics in Heavy Gas Dispersion And Related Risk Assessment Problems....Pages 1-25
Formulations of The Dense Gas Dispersion Problem....Pages 27-52
Investigation of Energy Fluxes in Heavy Gas Dispersion....Pages 53-65
Entrainment Mechanisms of Air in Heavy Gas Clouds....Pages 67-75
Recent Development of A Simple Box-Type Model for Dense Vapour Cloud Dispersion....Pages 77-89
Application of a turbulence flow model to heavy gas dispersion in complex situations....Pages 91-102
Dispersion of Vertical Free Jets....Pages 103-126
R&D Needs and Opportunities in LGF Safety and Environmental Control....Pages 127-146
Maplin Sands Experiments 1980: Dispersion Results from Continuous Releases of Refrigerated Liquid Propane....Pages 147-161
Results of 40-m 3 LNG Spills onto Water....Pages 163-179
Further Analysis Of Catastrophic LNG Spill Vapor Dispersion....Pages 181-210
Maplin Sands Experiments 1980: Combustion Of Large LNG and Refrigerated Liquid Propane Spills on the Sea....Pages 211-224
Present Understanding of the Explosion Properties of Flat Vapour Clouds....Pages 225-236
An Analysis of Vapour Cloud Explosions Based on Accidents....Pages 237-248
Modeling of Fire for Risk Assessment in Petrochemical Industries....Pages 249-260
Procedures for the Use of Risk Analysis in Decision Making....Pages 261-277
A Comparison of Consequences of Different Types of UF 6 Accidents....Pages 279-292
Some Problems in Risk Assessment Involving Gas Dispersion....Pages 293-303
Examples of Analyse S of Gas Cloud Explosion Hazards....Pages 305-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-322