Process and Plant Safety: Applying Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 384
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The safe operation of plants is of paramount importance in the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Best practice in
process and plant safety allows both the prevention of hazards and the mitigation of consequences. Safety Technology is continuously advancing to new levels and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is already successfully established as a tool to ensure the safe operation of industrial plants.
With CFD tools, a great amount of knowledge can be gained as both the necessary safety measures and the economic operation of plants can
be simultaneously determined. Young academics, safety experts and safety managers in all parts of the industry will henceforth be forced to
responsibly judge these new results from a safety perspective. This is the main challenge for the future of safety technology.
This book serves as a guide to elaborating and determining the principles, assumptions, strengths, limitations and application areas of
utilizing CFD in process and plant safety, and safety management. The book offers recommendations relating to guidelines, procedures, frameworks and technology for creating a higher level of safety for chemical and petrochemical plants. It includes modeling aids and concrete examples of industrial safety measures for hazard prevention.Content:
Chapter 1 Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Future in Safety Technology! (pages 1–4): Professor Dr.?Ing. Jurgen Schmidt
Chapter 2 Organized by ProcessNet: Tutzing Symposion 2011 ‘CFD – Its Future in Safety Technology’ (pages 5–7): Norbert Pfeil
Chapter 3 CFD and Holistic Methods for Explosive Safety and Risk Analysis 9 (pages 9–29): Arno Klomfass and Klaus Thoma
Chapter 4 Status and Potentials of CFD in Safety Analyses Using the Example of Nuclear Power (pages 31–68): Horst?Michael Prasser
Chapter 5 Sizing and Operation of High?Pressure Safety Valves (pages 69–94): Professor Dr.?Ing. Jurgen Schmidt and Wolfgang Peschel
Chapter 6 Water Hammer Induced by Fast?Acting Valves – Experimental Studies, 1D Modeling, and Demands for Possible Future CFX Calculations (pages 95–111): Andreas Dudlik and Robert Frohlich
Chapter 7 CFD?Modeling for Optimizing the Function of Low?Pressure Valves (pages 113–119): Frank Helmsen and Tobias Kirchner
Chapter 8 Consequences of Pool Fires to LNG Ship Cargo Tanks (pages 121–137): Benjamin Scholz and Gerd?Michael Wuersig
Chapter 9 CFD Simulation of Large Hydrocarbon and Peroxide Pool Fires (pages 139–157): Axel Schonbucher, Stefan Schalike, Iris Vela and Klaus?Dieter Wehrstedt
Chapter 10 Modeling Fire Scenarios and Smoke Migration in Structures (pages 159–177): Ulrich Krause, Frederik Rabe and Christian Knaust
Chapter 11 The ERCOFTAC Knowledge Base Wiki – An Aid for Validating CFD Models (pages 179–187): Wolfgang Rodi
Chapter 12 CFD at its Limits: Scaling Issues, Uncertain Data, and the User's Role (pages 189–212): Matthias Munch and Rupert Klein
Chapter 13 Validation of CFD Models for the Prediction of Gas Dispersion in Urban and Industrial Environments (pages 213–232): Michael Schatzmann and Bernd Leitl
Chapter 14 CFD Methods in Safety Technology – Useful Tools or Useless Toys? (pages 233–257): Henning Bockhorn
Chapter 15 Dynamic Modeling of Disturbances in Distillation Columns (pages 259–274): Daniel Staak, Aristides Morillo and Gunter Wozny
Chapter 16 Dynamic Process Simulation for the Evaluation of Upset Conditions in Chemical Plants in the Process Industry (pages 275–294):
Chapter 17 The Process Safety Toolbox – The Importance of Method Selection for Safety?Relevant Calculations (pages 295–311): J. Andrew Jones
Chapter 18 CFD for Reconstruction of the Buncefield Incident (pages 313–330): Simon E. Gant and G. T. Atkinson
Chapter 19 Do we Really want to Calculate the Wrong Problem as Exactly as Possible? The Relevance of Initial and Boundary Conditions in Treating the Consequences of Accidents (pages 331–347): Ulrich Hauptmanns
Chapter 20 Can Software Ever be Safe? (pages 349–367): Frank Schiller and Tina Mattes
Chapter 21 CFD Modeling: Are Experiments Superfluous? (pages 369–371): B. Jorgensen and D. Moncalvo