Analysis of LPG Facility Siting Considering BLEVE

Incident analysis of Bucheon LPG filling station pool fire and BLEVE.

An LPG filling station incident in Korea has been studied. The direct cause of the incident was concluded to be faulty joining of the couplings of the hoses during the butane unloading process from a tank lorry into an underground storage tank. The faulty connection of a hose to the tank lorry resulted in a massive leak of gas followed by catastrophic explosions. The leaking source was verified...

Facility Siting: Issues and Perspectives

The siting of an increasing range of facilities has become a major policy problem for all nations alike. Developers often face significant resistance from community interests in seeking to site socially desirable facilities. Siting is inherently political. While in some cases, developers are unable to get community agreement for projects, in others, they have had more success. This overview pap...

GeoComputational Approaches to Coverage Maximization in Service Facility Siting

Optimization of Body Composition Analyzer Facility, Considering Operator Dosimetry

Background: Changes in body composition may be used for monitoring progression/ regression of a disease. Prompt γ-rays in vivo neutron activation analysis (IVNAA) has been widely used for the measurement of body composition in recent years.Objective: In this paper, we tried to improve the safety of IVNAA operator.Methods: The most important factor for reducing the operator receiving dose is th...

Comparative Analysis of Bleve Mechanical Energy and Overpressure Modelling

A mechanical effects of a BLEVE are overpressure and ejection of fragments. Although fragments reach much longer distances, peak overpressure can be very strong over a certain area. Diverse authors have proposed methodologies for the estimation of the explosion energy and peak overpressure from these type of explosions, based on different thermodynamic and physical assumptions. Here these metho...