کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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6974045 | 1453322 | 2018 | 6 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Analysis of a gas explosion in Dimock PA (USA) during fracking operations in the Marcellus gas shale
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کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه
مهندسی شیمی
بهداشت و امنیت شیمی
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چکیده انگلیسی
On January 1, 2009, a concrete slab covering a water-pump vault of a water well 400Â m north of a Marcellus gas well in Dimock, Pennsylvania, USA was reported to have split into three pieces while being overturned. It was suggested that the cycling on of a water pump sparked the deflagration of a methane-air mixture causing the slab to overturn. Here, the conditions necessary to generate an explosion consistent with evidence, mainly a split and overturned concrete slab unmarked by soot or other evidence of a flame, are analyzed. Using more than one approach, calculations show that the maximum pressure to lift the concrete slab was roughly 0.3Â bar. Considering among others the flammable range of methane, the explosion pressure as a function of equivalence ratio, the presence of methane gradients inside the vault, the absence of soot and possible ignition sources, the analysis did not yield a well-defined, credible gas explosion scenario to explain the observed damage, although the possibility cannot be ruled out with absolute certainty.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Process Safety and Environmental Protection - Volume 117, July 2018, Pages 61-66
Journal: Process Safety and Environmental Protection - Volume 117, July 2018, Pages 61-66
نویسندگان
Terry Engelder, John F. Zevenbergen,