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Numerical Simulation on Hazard Zone Determination During the Dispersion of Natural Gas Containing Carbon Dioxide

  • MA Shihai;HUANG Ping;YANG Zhichao;CAI Xiaojun
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  • 1. China Academy of Safety Science and Technology, Beijing 100012, China;2. School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China;3. Qian'an Extraction Plant of Jilin Oilfield Company of PetroChina, Songyuan 131400, Jilin Province, China;4. Survey Design Institute of Jilin Oilfield Company of PetroChina, Songyuan 138001, Jilin Province, China

Received date: 2011-06-24

  Revised date: 2011-07-14

  Online published: 2011-07-28

Abstract

The explosion characteristics and hazards caused by dispersion of the natural gas containing carbon dioxide are concerned about. In order to confirm the hazard zone determination during the dispersion of natural gas containing carbon dioxide, explosion characteristics and the accuracy evaluation for the numerical model, mechanism of the puff dispersion and dispersion issues caused by blowout were investigated by numerical simulation methods. A dispersion model of natural gas containing carbon dioxide was set up, and the dispersion evolvement was researched in detail, furthermore, the hazard zone concluding asphyxiation and explosion or flammability is defined. The numerical simulation results show that the flammability zone caused by the puff dispersion of the natural gas containing carbon dioxide takes on an irregular cirque distribution. Along-wind variation of flammability-zone dimension is larger than that for crosswind. For both cases of along-wind and crosswind, the distribution of variations of flammability zone with time presents the shape of parabola whose peak point is up. Besides, it does not matter to judge explosive zone based on time or on space, the affected area for flammability zone is way smaller than that for the asphyxia zone.

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MA Shihai;HUANG Ping;YANG Zhichao;CAI Xiaojun . Numerical Simulation on Hazard Zone Determination During the Dispersion of Natural Gas Containing Carbon Dioxide[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2011 , 29(21) : 45 -50 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2011.21.007

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