Assessment of an explosive LPG release accident: A case study

Risk assessment of the fatality due to explosion in land mass transport infrastructure by fast transient dynamic analysis

“…A similar case has been reported by Bubbico and Marchini [2] where an liquified petroleum gas (LPG) tank filling accident is considered. In this study, the main target was to investigate the series of phenomena that happen during an accidental release of LPG and the corresponding consequences when ignition occurs.…”

The Viareggio LPG railway accident: Event reconstruction and modeling

“…(11) adopts a rather conservative approach and neglects the heat exchanged by radiation and convection between the tank car and the environment. A more detailed analysis can be found in [9][10][11].…”

A new procedure to estimate BLEVE overpressure

“…The reliability of the new approach was also studied by using a full scale case. Bubbico and Marchini (2008) a fixed storage vessel. A spill of liquefied propane was ignited, the tank was engulfed by flames and after 25 min it exploded.…”

“…high) results, except those based on real gas behaviour and adiabatic irreversible expansion, which give values that are less conservative but more realistic (Bubbico and Marchini, 2008;Laboureur et al, 2014;Hemmatian et al, 2017). Most of these methods, however, are somewhat cumbersome to be applied and require many thermodynamic data of the substance involved.…”