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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 174, Issue 1-3, Pages 270-280Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.09.047
Keywords
Explosion classification; Physical explosions; Chemical explosions; BLEVE; VCE; Dust explosion; Condensed phase explosion
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- Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Delhi
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All process industry accidents fall under three broad categories-fire. explosion. and toxic release. Of these fire is the most common, followed by explosions. Within these broad categories occur a large number of sub-categories, each depicting a specific sub-type of a fire/explosion/toxic release. But whereas clear and self-consistent sub-classifications exist for fires and toxic releases, the situation is not as clear vis a vis explosions. In this paper the inconsistencies and/or shortcomings associated with the classification of different types of explosions, which are seen even in otherwise highly authentic and useful reference books on process safety, are reviewed. In its context a new classification is attempted which may, hopefully, provide a frame-of-reference for the future. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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