Characteristics of Hazards of Coke-Oven Gas and Blast Furnace Gas - A Case Study

摘要

Industrial disaster can strike at any time, but the Bhopal gas tragedy remains a catastrophe with no parallel. It is, till date, the worst industrial disaster in the history of mankind. Fire hazards of coke-oven gas and blast furnace gas lead to fatal consequences. This paper highlights some salient features of the fire hazards scenarios from a coke-oven storage tank and blast furnace storage tank, which ultimately lead to jet-fire/flare with enormous heat wave all around and their consequence analysis with affected areas. Damage distances have been calculated by using Complex Hazardous Air Release Model (CHARM) software and it has been observed from the study that there may be 100% fatality within a radius of 350 m for the coke-oven storage tank, and 283 m from blast furnace storage tank.