Digest
BLEVE! — Process Safety Beacon, November 2009
BLEVE! — Process Safety Beacon, November 2009
- CCPS
- Digest
- Process Safety Beacon November 2009
- ExplosionHot Work and FirePressure SystemsProcess Safety
- ExplosionFirePressure systems
- Pressure vessel
- Emergency responseFire protection
- Onshore facility
Summary
Explains boiling liquid expanding vapour explosions using the 1984 Mexico City LPG terminal disaster. Describes rapid vaporisation following vessel failure, projectile hazards and fire-induced weakening below design pressure. Highlights working water-spray protection, firefighting procedures and reporting defective safeguards, while noting that the accident’s initiating cause was not definitively established.
Classifications: Explosion; explosive atmospheres.
Classifications: Fire; fire safety.
Classifications: Pressure systems; stored pressure; pressurised systems; pressurized systems.
Classifications: Pressure vessel; pressure vessels.
Classifications: Emergency response; emergency preparedness.
Classifications: Fire protection; fire suppression; fire detection.
Classifications: Onshore facility; onshore plant.
Summary
Beacon on boiling liquid expanding vapour explosions (BLEVEs) involving pressurised vessels.
Process Safety Beacon November 2009. Themes: explosion, hot work and fire, pressure systems, process safety.