Study on Theory of Hazardous Gas Puff Dispersion

Abstract:

In order to provide some possible scientific guidance for the investigation to puff dispersion of hazardous gas, some theoretical methods were used to deduce the critical parameters for description of puff dispersion behavior. In addition, some important issues such as how to distinguish dense gas dispersion from non-dense gas dispersion and the whole process to investigate a typical puff dispersion problem are also discussed. Finally some useful algorithms for standard deviation of concentration distribution over time, standard along-wind dispersion coefficient, et al. are deduced. These results can be potential scheme for puff field tests, wind tunnel experiments and especially for numerical simulations.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 518-523)
• Pages: 1625-1629
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.518-523.1625
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Yuan Pan Zheng, Jun Jie Guo, Xin Xin Liu, Xiao Ke Su
• Keywords: Dispersion, Hazardous Gas, Puff, Theory

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