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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