Assessment Of LNG Bunkering Accidents

Peter Vidmar, Andrej Androjna
University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

https://doi.org/10.53656/ped21-6s.13ass

Abstract. The maritime safety is of great concern for the entire maritime community. Ships using LNG for propulsion are already sailing the seas, but the majority of the ports are not yet prepared for this kind of supply. As the process of LNG bunkering is only seemingly similar to traditional oil bunkering or liquid loading, dealing with the technical and safety challenges is much more subject of investigation. In this paper, the dispersion part of the consequences of LNG release, pooling, evaporation and dispersion during the future bunkering operation in the port of Koper, Slovenia, where the populated area (city) is located in close proximity are examined. We follow the comparison of three different tools, namely the Unified Dispersion Model (UDM) implemented by the software PHAST from DNV-GL® and two CFD (FDS – Fire Dynamics Simulator from NIST and Ansys Fluent®) in the same case scenario. Geometry, initial and boundary conditions are assumed to be the same as far as possible, according to the limitations of the respective software tools.
Keywords: LNG; bunkering; risk assessment; dispersion; CFD; UDM model

Open the full text

Свързани статии:

Reflections on Russophobia in Britain in the First Half of the XIX Century A New Study on Feudalism in The Balkans Third National Student Olympiad in Language Culture Integrating Primary Source Analysis in Remote Teaching of Earth and Environmental Science During the COVID-19 Pandemic