Air Cooler Explosion Analysis Using CFD - AIChE 2017 Poster

Facility siting should consider possible explosion sources due to congested regions of a process. One source of congestion is air coolers. Air coolers typically have a confined volume of turbulent air passing over a piping bundle of small diameter tubes. These conditions will increase flame speeds should a flammable cloud reach an air cooler. We report on the numerical modeling of air coolers using FLACS with the goal of developing rules for assigning congestion when using blast curve methods.

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SLAB - A Dispersion Model with GUI

SLAB is an atmospheric dispersion model for denser than air releases. In 2008 I converted the SLAB Fortran code to VB.NET and wrote a GUI for the solver. I called the result Release. It is a single exe that only requires the latest .NET framework. The software GUI is free of charge and is provided without warranty. No changes were made to the original solver. Find a link to download Release below along with the original users manual for SLAB.

Download Release.exe
Download Slab.pdf Users Manual

User Input Screen

Text Results (Same as SLAB console program)

Plotting of cloud isopleth top and side views

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