Causes and Preventions of Gas/Vapor Fires and Explosions Muhammad M. Rafique Qureshi, PH.D. Chilworth Technology, Inc. 113 Campus Drive … However, the qualitative attribute of attaining a homogeneous geometry is a reasonable concept for mixing in the FCI.

A steam explosion is an explosion caused by violent boiling or flashing of water into steam, occurring when water is either superheated, rapidly heated by fine hot debris produced within it, or heated by the interaction of molten metals (as in a fuel–coolant interaction, or FCI, of molten nuclear-reactor fuel rods with water in a nuclear reactor core following a core-meltdown). Not all vapors explode, BTW. Causes and Preventions of Gas/Vapor Fires and Explosions The Role of Engineering Awareness (Proficiency) in Achieving Process Safety Excellence Muhammad M. Rafique Qureshi, Ph.D. Chilworth Technology Global Experts in Process Safety Excellence . ... (including gas, vapor and dust explosions inside vented or unvented equipment; runaway reactions, boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE)); (3) mechanical explosions (caused by vessel failure following the gas or liquid mechanical compression to pressures above the vessel design pressure); … The gas vapor mixtures inside each of the cans ignited when an open flame was held under the open spout of the can, which was positioned at a pouring angle. Qualitatively, it could be described as a condition in which the fuel and coolant liquids disperse within one another.

The San Juanico disaster was an industrial disaster caused by a massive series of explosions at a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) tank farm in San Juanico, Mexico (outside of Mexico City, Mexico) on 19 November 1984. Liquefied petroleum gas or liquid petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas), is a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as fuel in heating appliances, cooking equipment, and vehicles. The explosion resulting from the ignition of a cloud of flammable vapor, gas, or mist in which flame speeds accelerate to sufficiently high velocities to produce significant overpressure. By “gas” do you mean gasoline? In vapor explosions, the interacting species are liquids; thus gaseous interpenetration is impossible.

It is increasingly used as an aerosol propellant and a refrigerant, replacing chlorofluorocarbons … The explosions consumed 11,000 m 3 of LPG, representing one third of Mexico City's entire liquid petroleum gas supply. Your question kind of doesn’t make sense: a vapor IS a gas.

Also, an explosion really is just super-fast burning, so they’re the same thing, just at different speeds. Gas maars or volcanic gas explosion craters also are present inside the city of Managua.