Transportation of chemicals

Carson, Philip; Mumford, C.J.

doi:10.1205/026095703321614308

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“…At any point along its route, dangerous chemical transportation poses a risk to the surrounding people and environment. Previous studies on HAZMAT transportation accidents has revealed that ASM Science Journal, Volume 18, 2023 2 accidents involving hazardous materials transportation may have additional consequences due to their physical and chemical properties (Rhyne, 1994;Carson & Mumford, 2003;Lisi et al, 2001). The amount of destruction is expected to be greater if the accident occurs in a densely populated area (Bubbico et al, 2001) Models (1996) and BUWAL methodology developed by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.…”

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Severity Impact of a Vapour Cloud Explosion (VCE) – Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Road Tanker Accident

Rashid¹

2023

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An explosion accident from a road tanker while carrying hazardous materials can have a dangerous effect on road users and the surrounding area through which the road tanker passes. Based on the evidence of the accident case involving the road tanker reported, it shows that this accident case can cause death and destruction to the surrounding property. In Malaysia, several cases of accidents involving road tankers have also occurred. Among the methods used to determine the impact of a road tanker explosion is the use of the consequences analysis method. Currently, there is limited number of software that can be used to determine the impact of a road tanker explosion accident that carries explosive chemicals such as butadiene, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), etc. However, there are weaknesses in the display of the impact results plotted on the map. Where the impact of the explosion is only shown to the 3 main zones, namely building damage, serious injury, and glass breakage. In this paper, the enhanced contour profile method on the impact of an LPG road tanker explosion on human and structural damage is shown.

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Severity Impact of a Vapour Cloud Explosion (VCE) – Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Road Tanker Accident

Rashid¹

2023

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“…However, most developments and use of QRA are mainly on stationary installations. Case histories have shown that the risks of hazardous materials during transport may also present additional risks in addition to those associated with the inherent chemical and physical properties of the hazardous substances, mainly due to the circumstances and location of the incidents may be unpredictable [1]. In Europe, concern is now being voiced about the transport of hazardous materials and the risks posed to members of the public so much that legislators are beginning to widen their attention from the problems of stationary installations to transportation of hazardous materials [2].…”

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Inclusion of human errors assessment in failure frequency analysis—A case study for the transportation of ammonia by rail in Malaysia

Hassan

Puvaneswaran

Balasubramaniam

et al. 2008

Process Safety Progress

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Risk is defined as the probability of a specific adverse event occurring within a specific period, while Quantitative risk assessment (QRA) is the development of a quantitative estimate of risk based on engineering evaluation and mathematical techniques by combining estimate of incident consequences and frequencies. In view of the increase in the use of railways as the mode of transportation for hazardous materials throughout the world, the associated risk analysis should be taken into concern. In this study, the failure frequency of the transportation of ammonia from the Petronas fertilizers Kedah (PFK) plant in Gurun (Northern part of Peninsular Malaysia), to the Chemical Company Malaysia (CCM) fertilizer's facilities in Port Klang (South‐western part of Peninsular Malaysia) was evaluated by incorporating the human error assessment. The study highlighted the importance of human error contributions in the failure frequency analysis and its impact on the selected failure scenarios. Besides, it also shows that the application of the human error assessment and reduction technique (HEART), which is a useful human reliability analysis tool, should be used in parallel with the fuzzy arithmetic approach to reduce the uncertainties involved in the estimation of human error probabilities, and hence, to reduce the likelihood of incorrect risks estimates being assessed. The results suggested that the commonly applied approach in quantitative risk assessments, which only consider equipment failures in the failure frequency estimations, are clearly an underestimate of the potential causes of failures leading to hazardous material releases, and hence, the calculated risks based do not reflect the actual risks. © 2008 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog, 2009

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Transportation of chemicals

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Severity Impact of a Vapour Cloud Explosion (VCE) – Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Road Tanker Accident

Severity Impact of a Vapour Cloud Explosion (VCE) – Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Road Tanker Accident

Inclusion of human errors assessment in failure frequency analysis—A case study for the transportation of ammonia by rail in Malaysia

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