UKELG 10th Meeting

Explosions in Industry

University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 21-23 September 1989

Dr Martin Pantony, HSE, Bootle

Explosion Hazards in Industry

Martin Braithwaite, ICI plc

Bubble Collapse: ignition in potentially flammable liquids

Chris Wheatley, SRD, UKAEA, Culcheth

Flame acceleration in 1-D geometries

Herodotos Phylaktou, University of Leeds

Flame propagation, rates of pressure rise and the influence of obstacles in gas explosions in vessels with large L/D ratios

C van Wingerden, TNO, Rijswijk, Netherlands

Flame acceleration due to obstacles and partial confinement and venting of methane-air explosions in a 38.5 m room

Mlle Sylvie Audebert, Gaz de France, La Plaine St Denis, France

Study of explosive properties of inflammable

mixtures by the Shock Tube technique

John Clarke, Cranfield Institute of Technology

Recent progress in theoretical studies of evolution to detonation

Hans Michels, Imperial College, London

The influence of flow in marginal detonation

Michael Hey, HSE, RLSD, Buxton

The effect of vent ducts, their width and the ignition position on full scale dust explosions

Clive Catlin, BGMRS, Solihull

External overpressures caused by a confined, vented explosion

Ake Harmanny, Stuv-Ex International, Antwerp

Hazards from flame jets in vented explosions

George Munday, ISC, London

Blast waves from bursting discs

Mike Johnson, BGMRS, Solihull

Scaling of vapour cloud explosions

Jan Pieter van Zeeuwen, Stuv-Ex Nederland, Antwerp

Blast prediction for vapour cloud explosions

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