Accession Number:

ADA063714

Title:

Liquefied Natural Gas Safety Research Overview.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

COAST GUARD WASHINGTON D C OFFICE OF MERCHANT MARINE SAFETY

Personal Author(s):

• Schneider,Alan L.

Report Date:

1978-12-12

Pagination or Media Count:

72.0

Abstract:

Liquefied Natural Gas LNG is a growing factor in the United States energy supply situation, both for periods of high demand peak shaving and for daily supply base load. Safety has been a major issue in its acceptance by the public, the government, and industry. Perhaps becuase of this, industry and government have undertaken programs of research, development, testing, and evaluation that are more extensive than those for most other new hazardous materials. This paper records the experimental and theoretical work performed with the goal of increasing LNG safety, and has been organized in fourteen divisions land storage tank studies, rollover, dispersion from spills on land, land spill fire studies, land spill fire protection, ship studies, flameless explosion, dispersion from spills on water, underwater releases, water spill fire studies, vapor cloud deflagration, vapor cloud detonation, physical properties, and gelation. Examining the record of the LNG research effort leads inevitably to the conclusion that there is a basic understanding of the material, sufficient to design, operate, and regulate LNG transportation and storage. Author

Descriptors:

• *SAFETY
• *LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS
• TEST AND EVALUATION
• TRANSPORTATION
• GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT
• EXPLOSIONS
• STORAGE
• METHANE
• INDUSTRIAL PROCUREMENT
• STORAGE TANKS
• ENERGY CONSUMPTION
• CRYOGENICS
• SPILLING
• HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
• FIRE HAZARDS

Subject Categories:

• Safety Engineering
• Fuels

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE