Fuel storage tanks burn after a vapor cloud explosion at the Amuay refinery in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, on August 27, 2012. - Meridith Kohut/The New York Times/Redux In 2012, an undetected leak at ...
A major oil producer has been fined for the deaths of two workers at a refinery in Ohio, according to federal officials. A “flammable vapor cloud formed” as the workers “attempted to correct rising ...
This guide provides an overview of methods for estimating the characteristics of vapor cloud explosions, flash fires, and boiling-liquid-expanding-vapor explosions (BLEVEs) for practicing engineers.
When police and fire officials arrived to a reported chemical explosion in Andover Monday, they saw an unusual sight. A "green vapor cloud" was hovering over the building, Andover Fire Chief Michael ...
(TNS) — A chemical explosion at the Morpho Detection facility on was likely caused by acids mixing with an unknown substance, according to Andover, Mass., Fire Chief Michael Mansfield. "Two acids were ...
This paper first briefly surveys the energy releases in some major accidents. It then examines the analyses of the explosion at the Buncefield fuel storage site in the UK, one of the most intense ...
Two workers were killed when a vapor cloud ignited, causing a fiery explosion at a BP refinery in September in Oregon, Ohio, according to federal officials. Screengrab from video posted to Facebook. A ...
The crowd at Quintana Beach was enjoying a respite from a sweltering June day two years ago when the calm was shattered by a fiery explosion. A sphere of orange flame flew into the air above Freeport ...
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