The release of gas from the LPG storage tank by the rupture or leakage can occure explosion and this causes serious damage to people and structures.
In this study, the explosion effect and damaging distance were measured for the LPG cloud explosion t...
The release of gas from the LPG storage tank by the rupture or leakage can occure explosion and this causes serious damage to people and structures.
In this study, the explosion effect and damaging distance were measured for the LPG cloud explosion to perform the quantitative risk assessment for the PSM, and the effective parameters on the explosion were found. The gas dispersion and mass contaminant in the explosion limits were calculated by using DEGADIS, and it was converted to TNT equivalency and damaging distance.
As a result, the wind speed was the most effective parameter on the diffusion rate and TNT equivalency, and the damaging distance were increased with decrease of wind speed and surface roughness.