UKELG 41st Meeting

Hazards from Flame Acceleration and Transition to Detonation

Shell Technology Centre Thornton, 13th May 2008

Helen James, HSE Bootle

Basic Phenomenology of Deflagration, DDT and Detonation

Tony Ennis,Haztech ConsultantsLtd

Flame Acceleration and Transition to Detonation in Process Pipes: An experimental study

Derek Bradley, Leeds University

Flame acceleration and DDT in a pipe, closed at one end

Sergio Ferraris, Kingston University

Flame acceleration around obstacles – numerical simulation with OPENFOAM

Peter Schildberg, BASF SE

Determination of the composition ranges in which Propene/O2/N2 and Methane/O2/N2 transit from deflagration to detonation in vessels of 20l and 2500l

Helen James, HSE Bootle

Example of industrial Incidents involving DDT and detonations

Heather Gibben, Syngenta Ltd

Flame acceleration and DDT – issues from an industrial perspective

Andrzej Pekalski, Shell Global Solutions

Application of detonation flame arresters

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