Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)
Confidenciality: No
Education area(s): Genètica, Física i Química Forense
Title in different languages: Technical-forensic study of unconfined vapour cloud explosions, (UVCE)
Abstract: In recent years, the devastating Unconfined Vapour Cloud Explosions (UVCE) have significantly attracted the attention. The UCVE explosions tend to occur mainly in the chemical sector, especially in refineries, petrochemical industries, transfer of liquids, transport of dangerous goods and, also in companies using flammable liquid at some stage of the productive process. These explosions are hard to foresee and the effects are mainly atrocious, both economic and, unfortunately, standing of victims. This work has been done at the company OTIC (Oficina Técnica de Ingeniería Forense), a company founded in 1984 and dedicated, with extensive and proven experience, to the determination of the origin and the causes of incidents, especially in the field of investigation and modeling fire and explosions, as well as in the elaboration of emergency plans. After the search in the literature and the fieldwork with the technics of this company, concretely, casualties to chemical industries due to failures in chemical engineering process, it is proposed a methodology for the analysis, investigation and prevention of the UVCE.
Subject: Química
Academic year: 2017-2018
Language: Català
Work's public defense date: 2018-06-26
Subject areas: Chemistry
Student: Martí Torres, Karen
Work's codirector: Pons i Grau, Vicent
Department: Química Física i Inorgànica
Creation date in repository: 2018-09-27
TFM credits: 18
Keywords: forensic science, forensic chemistry, overpressure, UVCE, HAZOP
Title in original language: Estudi tècnic-forense d'explosions de núvols de vapor no confinats, (UVCE)
Project director: Serres Serres, Josep Maria
Repositori URV