Objective
The main aim of the research remains the improvement of the means of protecting workers against the consequences of a major accident to a cokeworks gas network.
This necessitates:
- a quality of risks
- a quantitative study of the consequences of different major accident scenarios (in open, confined or semi-confined spaces).
These two stages are essential if the risks are to be pinpointed precisely.
A second aim of the research could be to develop a risk assessment methodology which could eventually be used in all Community cokeworks.
Among the main considerations in operating a cokeworks are the production, refining, storage and consumption of the gas produced by the coke ovens. Another factor is the consumption of other steelworks gases (melting shop gas, blast-furnace gas) for heating the coke ovens. These gases are toxic (carbon monoxide) and explosive.
Studies of the dangers, required under the EC directive on the evaluation and prevention of major accidents in industrial establishments (Seveso Directive), bear witness to the importance of dealing with this problem.
Risks are due to two types of potential accident:
- dispersion of gas in open spaces: bursts or cracks in gasometers or pipelines (poisoning, explosion, fire),
- dispersion of gas in confined or semi-confined spaces:
- gas leaks in the heating galleries (confined spaces) in the coke oven battery basement: risk of explosion leading to battery destruction;
- following gas dispersion in an open space, gradual poisoning of workers in the various premises (semi-confined spaces) of the cokeworks (offices, air-conditioned rooms, control centre, changing rooms, etc.)
At present it is particularly difficult to construct a simple basic digital model of gas dispersion in the event of an accident, owing to the complexity of the industrial structures of a cokeworks. This means that it is impossible to establish the consequences of a potential accident in advance.
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59381 Dunkerque
France
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