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A scheme for the classification of explosions in the chemical process industry

Tasneem Abbasi, H.J. Pasman, S.A. Abbasi

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Cilt: 174, Sayı: 1-3, 270-280, 2010/02/15

All process industry accidents fall under three broad categories—fire, explosion, and toxic release. Of these fire is the most common, followed by explosions. Within these broad categories occur a large number of sub-categories, each depicting a specific sub-type of a fire/explosion/toxic release. But whereas clear and self-consistent sub-classifications exist for fires and toxic releases, the situation is not as clear vis a vis explosions. In this paper the inconsistencies and/or shortcomings associated with the classification of different types of explosions, which are seen even in otherwise highly authentic and useful reference books on process safety, are reviewed. In its context a new classification is attempted which may, hopefully, provide a frame-of-reference for the future.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Explosion classification; Physical explosions; Chemical explosions; BLEVE; VCE; Dust explosion; Condensed phase explosion

Elsevier B. V.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.09.047

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