Consequences of Material Releases

The impacts of material releases stem from toxicity, fire or explosion if the materials have the corresponding properties. The possibility exists that a material exhibits several of the properties mentioned. This is accounted for accordingly. 

Empirical findings on the release of flammable materials lead amongst others to the following conclusions (vid. [8])  

In case of released quantities of 10,000 kg the probability of ignition lies 

From the above information the following conclusions are drawn for the modelling  

The event tree of Fig. 12.2 was derived from the above information. It contains the event sequences after the release of flammable materials and the corresponding conditional probabilities. 

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