Boiling liquid expanding vapour cloud explosion BLEVE

Explosion a confined vapour cloud explosion (CVCE) can result from ignition of vapour within a building or equipment a boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion (BLEVE) can result when unvented containers of flammable chemicals burst with explosive violence as a result of the build-up of internal pressure unconfmed vapour cloud explosion (UVCE) can result from ignition of a very large vapour or gas/air cloud. 

An accident scenario is one of many specific situations that might evolve at the end of an accident sequence. Here, we have considered eight accident scenarios of Vapour Cloud Explosion (VCE), Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion (BLEVE) and toxic release events originating from different hazardous industries located in the study area (Fig. 2). The as reference scenarios were selected with an inherent assumption of having the potential of causing Maximum Credible Loss (MCL) (Khan and Abbasi, 2002) as identified on the basis of facility level risk assessment (Table 1). 

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