Consequence analysis to determine the damage to humans from vapour cloud explosions using characteristic curves
| Autor: | Fernando Díaz Alonso, José Ruiz Gimeno, Agustín Miñana Aznar, Enrique González Ferradás, Teresa de Jesús Jiménez Sánchez, Jesús Martínez Alonso |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Lung Diseases
Engineering Environmental Engineering Injury control Accident prevention Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Explosions Poison control Hemorrhage Cloud computing Blast Injuries Forensic engineering medicine Accidents Occupational Humans Environmental Chemistry Consequence analysis Waste Management and Disposal Skull Fractures Tympanic Membrane Perforation business.industry Fissure Lung Injury Mechanics Pollution Overpressure medicine.anatomical_structure Regression Analysis Volatilization business Whole body |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hazardous Materials. 150:146-152 |
| ISSN: | 0304-3894 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2007.04.089 |
| Popis: | The aim of this paper is to provide a methodology to facilitate consequence analysis for vapour cloud explosions (VCE). Firstly, the main PROBIT equations to evaluate direct damage on humans from those accidents (eardrum rupture, death due to skull fracture, death due to whole body impact and lung damage) are discussed and the most suitable ones are selected. Secondly, a new methodology is developed to relate characteristic overpressure-impulse-distance curves for VCE, obtained in a previous paper (F. Diaz Alonso et al., Characteristic overpressure-impulse-distance curves for vapour cloud explosions using the TNO Multi-Energy model, J. Hazard. Mater. A137 (2006) 734-741) with the selected PROBIT equations. This methodology allows the determination of damage as a function of distance to the accident's origin in only one step, using explosion energy and VCE Multi-Energy charge strength as input parameters. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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