Where there’s fire, there’s smoke. And with it comes an assortment of dangerous situations that occur during the fire event as well as a number of significant post-event consequences.
If you are an industrial facility that deals with toxic chemicals, a public first response organization or a government agency concerned about industrial and transportation-related fires and their impact on facilities, the local populous and the environment, you’ll want to get to know CAM!
Having a complete picture of the impact of the hazards associated with fires, toxic smoke and particulates allows response personnel and government agencies to make more informed decisions regarding the fire event and its consequences to a facility/location, the local communities and the environment that stand in the path of the smoke and its fallout, which can be significant. Those decisions run the gamut from evacuation and shelter in-place actions to determining how to defend against possible litigation resulting from a fire event.
The Combustion Analysis Model was created to provide all these groups with the essential information they need.
Combustion Analysis Model can:
- Analyze any chemical fire including a Tank Top fire, Pool fire, Stack or Jet fire, and Post-Dispersion fire.
- Transition seamlessly from analyzing a toxic dispersion to the products of combustion. Useful for delayed ignition of a toxic release!
- Plot the dispersion (both toxic and flammable) of a hazardous substance.
- Simulate ignition of the release and post-ignition dispersion with tracking of both pre- and post-ignition plumes.
- Analyze the products of combustion—the soot and gases that will be generated and the dispersion of those products—including the deposition of soot that is produced as a result.
- Determine downwind dispersion of combustion products, airborne particulate, unburnt hazardous materials and soot deposition.
The Ideal Analysis Tool for an Array of Fire Situations
- Major hydrocarbon spills inside or outside a berm area with post-event ignition
- Flare out/delayed ignition situations
- Floating roof tank collapses with subsequent ignition
- Pipeline rupture and ignition
- Spill to tank berm with ignition
- Gas well blowout
- Tanker truck incidents (gasoline, oil and other commonly carried petroleum products)
Provides Valuable Decision Making Data to a Range of Public and Private Sector Entities
- Firefighters and Hazmat teams
- Emergency Operations Center personnel
- Environmental Managers and agencies
- Chemical and Process Safety Engineers
- Corporate legal, risk management and insurance departments
- Insurance Companies
- Compliance and regulatory agencies
- Public health agencies
Particularly Relevant and Useful in these Industries, Applications and Environments:
- Sour gas
- Refineries
- Upgraders
- Wells
- Pipelines
- Storage terminals and tank farms
- Transportation
- Petrochemical facilities
Important Questions the Combustion Analysis Model Can Help You Answer
- If ignition occurs, where will the smoke and toxic gases go. Is ignition a good choice given the toxicity of the material and potential impact to the health and safety of facility personnel, responders, local residents and the environment?
- What are the products of combustion in a fire event?
- Are there toxic substances in the products of combustion in a fire and in what concentrations?
- Where is the particulate matter from the fire’s smoke cloud headed, and how big will the impact area be over time?
- What are the potential health effects of the fire event?
- Are liability and loss claims stemming from the smoke and particulate matter disposition of a fire event legitimate?
Select CAM Dispersion and Deposition Data Visualizations
Smoke Dispersion From Tank-Top Fire
Dispersion Analysis of An Individual Component of The Products of Combustion
Soot/Particulate Deposition
A Wealth of Valuable Information… A Host of Significant Benefits
The Combustion Analysis Model was designed to provide a variety of essential data needed to analyze and more effectively respond to a fire event.
| Sample Smoke Composition and Other Important Smoke Data Generated by CAM | |
|---|---|
| Smoke Composition (weight %) For Air To Fuel Ratio of 11.0 (lb/lb) | |
| N2 | 70.4 |
| H2O | 12.3 |
| CO2 | 8.4 |
| CO | 7.8 |
| SO2 | 0.6 |
| H2 | 0.4 |
| H2S | 0.04 |
| Smoke Information | |
| Smoke rate | 29867.0 (lb/min) |
| Soot rate | 0.0 (lb/min) |
| Smoke temperature | 3110.9 (deg F) |
| Smoke duration | 120 (min) |
| Release height | 220.9 (ft) |
| Source diameter | 36.1 (ft) |
- CAM quickly makes critical pre, during and post fire event decision making information available to incident commanders, responders, EOC personnel and others.
- CAM supplies fire event information important for regulatory and compliance reporting.
- CAM Is highly useful in post-event analysis to evaluate and defend against a variety of possible claims:
- liability
- injury
- property damage
- health
- CAM makes it far simpler and more accurate to project and validate the soot composition and impact area of a fire so you gain a realistic perspective regarding the extent of claims you are likely to face for vehicle clean ups, school and playground decontaminations, structural cleaning, etc.
- CAM supports particulate monitoring activities providing the information necessary to accurately place monitors for gathering samples.
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