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Citation

Darbra RM, Palacios A, Casal J. J. Hazard. Mater. 2010; 183(1-3): 565-573.

Affiliation

Centre for Studies on Technological Risk (CERTEC), Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Diagonal 647, 08028-Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.07.061

PMID

20709447

Abstract

The main features of domino accidents in process/storage plants and in the transportation of hazardous materials were studied through an analysis of 225 accidents involving this effect. Data on these accidents, which occurred after 1961, were taken from several sources. Aspects analyzed included the accident scenario, the type of accident, the materials involved, the causes and consequences and the most common accident sequences. The analysis showed that the most frequent causes are external events (31%) and mechanical failure (29%). Storage areas (35%) and process plants (28%) are by far the most common settings for domino accidents. Eighty-nine per cent of the accidents involved flammable materials, the most frequent of which was LPG. The domino effect sequences were analyzed using relative probability event trees. The most frequent sequences were explosion-->fire (27.6%), fire-->explosion (27.5%) and fire-->fire (17.8%).


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