Obiettivo Gas explosion is a major safety risk on petro-chemical production and processing facilities. The cost of gas explosion accidents is very high in terms of loss of lives, of facilities and lost production. The Piper Alpha accident in 1987 costed 167 lives and loss of facilities alone was over 2 billion pounds sterling. The petrochemical industry requires reliable methods to quantify and hence effectively manage their gas explosion risk, e.g. minimising the consequences of a gas explosion by design.FLACS is a research tool which describes the processes involved in gas explosions, namely, the interaction of combustion generated turbulence and combustion. It is the result of 16 years of intense fundamental research (and is still ongoing) into gas explosion propagation in offshore environments. It is supported mainly by oil and gas companies. Total expenditure to date exceeds 15 million ECU. The main part of this research was to generate experimental data and theoretical knowledge needed to produce FLACS. It has been applied to quantified gas explosion risk (quantified risk assessment studies) and in design (minimising the risk of escalation, such as. fire, and in structural failures).The aim of the proposed FLASCOM project is to make available to the industry the product of state-of-the art gas explosion technology, and to speed up the process to commercialise FLACS by rigorously testing (beta testing) by target users, and detailed review by IT engineers.In the project, FLACS will be used by petrochemical, oil and/or gas companies and an engineering consultant. They will use the code during a 14 month period applying it to a variety of gas dispersion and explosion problems offshore and in land-based installations. The installations will vary from open geometries to very confined geometries. Involved gas types will vary from methane to the more reactive gases such as ethylene. Additionally, the code will be reviewed by a team of IT engineers. The code developer Christian Michelsen Research (CMR) will provide the data (including FLACS) to the above five companies, and implement recommendations from the trial to improve FLACS.The results of this trial will be shared with CMR. They will prepare the FLACS code for commercialisation. The FLACSCOM Project results will be disseminated to an existing work group of industrial representatives. This work group will be responsible for implementing the commercialising of FLACS. Campo scientifico natural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometrynatural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compounds Programma(i) FP4-ESPRIT 4 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of information technologies, 1994-1998 Argomento(i) 1.8 - Emerging Software Technologies Invito a presentare proposte Data not available Meccanismo di finanziamento CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinatore BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Chertsey Road TW16 7LN Sunbury on Thames Regno Unito Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato
