Citation

Park K, Sam Mannan M, Jo YD, Kim JY, Keren N, Wang Y. J. Hazard. Mater. 2006; 137(1): 62-67.

Affiliation

Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, Chemical Engineering Department, Texas A and M University System, College Station, TX 77843-3122, United States

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

An LPG filling station incident in Korea has been studied. The direct cause of the incident was concluded to be faulty joining of the couplings of the hoses during the butane unloading process from a tank lorry into an underground storage tank. The faulty connection of a hose to the tank lorry resulted in a massive leak of gas followed by catastrophic explosions. The leaking source was verified by calculating the amount of released LPG and by analyzing captured photos recorded by the television news service. Two BLEVEs were also studied.

Language: en