Offsite Consequence Modeling for Evacuation Distances against Accidental Hydrogen Fluoride (HF) Release Scenarios

Corrosion effect of hydrogen fluoride (HF) on electronic components

Optimal Evacuation Solutions for Large-Scale Scenarios

Evacuation, the process of moving people out of potentially dangerous areas, is a key response to many threats. Planning such an evacuation is therefore important, especially in large-scale emergencies, where routing becomes non-trivial. This paper deals with the optimization and simulation of the evacuation process. We draw our data from the study of the city of Padang in Indonesia, with its h...

Consequence Assessment of Vapour cloud Explosion Involving Hydrogen Release

This work is concerned with the consequence analysis of vapour cloud explosion (VCE) due to accidental release of hydrogen (H2) from the hydrogen holder in a chloralkali plant. Hydrogen is highly flammable if released accidentally may lead to flash fire or VCE which has the potential to damage people, equipment and facilities in the vicinity of the hydrogen holder. The equivalent TNT, TNO multi...

Structure of Liquid HF On the Structure of Liquid Hydrogen Fluoride**

The liquid state is the most complex phase of matter. Densities of liquids are comparable to densities of the solids, implying that the forces between particles in the liquid are of the samemagnitude as those forces present in the solid. However, there is no simplification due to the presence of a lattice and no satisfactory analytic theory of the liquid state exists. However, despite this comp...

Fast Deployable System for Consequence Management: The Emergency Evacuation Component

In 1995, Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) 39 introduced the nation to the term Consequence Management which meant to establish how the effects of a terrorist attack employing weapons of mass destruction and/or other means would be managed. The importance of Consequence Management became more apparent after 9/11 as we realized that is impossible to harden the infrastructure to avoid losses ...