Study on Emergency Evacuation of Plant Area of a Chemical Enterprise in Liquid Chlorine Leakage Accident

Abstract:

Based on the field investigation of a chemical plant, its plant area was selected as the simulated domain of emergency evacuation. All of staff was considered as the research objects and a questionnaire survey was conducted on them. Then, the survey results were analyzed statistically by SPSS13.0, in light of which the Building EXODUS was used to simulate the emergency evacuation. The results showed that there are 12 factors related to psychological and behavioral response when staff is caught in a liquid chlorine leakage accident. In light of relevancy, those factors are arranged as whether the staff has known the storage location or properties of the chemicals, gender, whether they know the refuge area location, etc. Besides, the poisoning and mortality rate reached 21% during the process of evacuation.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 556-562)
• Pages: 6595-6601
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.556-562.6595
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Jiang Ping Zhao*, A Jin Hu
• Keywords: Building EXODUS, Chemical Enterprise, Emergency Evacuation, Leakage, Liquid Chlorine, SPSS13.0

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