Explosion Hazards Associated with Spills of Large Quantities of Hazardous Materials. Phase II.

摘要

This report documents the results of Phase II of a program aimed at quantifying the explosion hazards associated with spills of large quantities of hazardous material such as liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas. The principal results of this phase of the work are: a quantitative empirical description of the burning behavior in fuel-air mixtures,an examination of flame acceleration processes,the observation that,in 17large scale burn tests,no transition to detonation occurred,and that methane-air mixtures cannot be detonated with moderate size solid explosive boosters. (Author)