Dynamic resilience assessment and emergency strategy optimization of natural gas compartments in utility tunnels

Y Bai, J Wu, S Yuan, G Reniers, M Yang… - Process Safety and …, 2022 - Elsevier
As a kind of critical infrastructure of energy transportation, so-called 'utility tunnels' have
been developed around the world. Hosting a natural gas pipeline inside the natural gas …

[HTML][HTML] Safety barrier performance assessment by integrating computational fluid dynamics and evacuation modeling for toxic gas leakage scenarios

S Yuan, J Cai, G Reniers, M Yang, C Chen… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Toxic gas leakage represents a type of major process accident scenario threatening human
life. Technical and non-technical safety barriers are employed to prevent toxic gas leakage …

An integrated quantitative risk assessment method for urban underground utility tunnels

J Wu, Y Bai, W Fang, R Zhou, G Reniers… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the rapid urbanization, urban underground utility tunnels have seen fast growth in
China in the past few years. Urban utility tunnels can house various kinds of city 'lifelines' …

Analysis of natural gas leakage diffusion characteristics and prediction of invasion distance in utility tunnels

F Bu, Y Liu, Z Wang, Z Xu, S Chen, G Hao… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the continuous development of urbanization, the number of underground supplies and
demanded pipelines is increasing. In order to reasonably plan the construction of urban …

Numerical simulation on methane-hydrogen explosion in gas compartment in utility tunnel

S Zhang, H Ma, X Huang, S Peng - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
To explore the sustainability of urban utility tunnel and the possibility for methane/hydrogen
mixture transportation, FLACS, the gas explosion simulation software, was used to study the …

[HTML][HTML] A dynamic multi-agent approach for modeling the evolution of multi-hazard accident scenarios in chemical plants

C Chen, G Reniers, N Khakzad - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
In the chemical industry, multi-hazard (toxic, flammable, and explosive) materials such as
acrylonitrile are stored, transported, and processed in large quantities. A release of multi …

[HTML][HTML] Hazard identification and analysis of urban utility tunnels in China

Y Bai, R Zhou, J Wu - Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
With the rapid urbanization and development of China, urban utility tunnels (UUTs) that
combine various city lifelines are develo** quickly. However, along with the convenience …

Estimation of the natural gas leakage source with different monitoring sensor networks in an underground utility Tunnel: From the perspectives of energy security

K Zhou, F Li, H Cai, Y **g, J Zhuang, M Li, Z **ng - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Utility tunnels could make full use of underground space and are important for the energy
security of the city. The natural gas pipelines were integrated into utility tunnels and have …

Influence of aviation emission on the particle number concentration near Zurich Airport

X Zhang, M Karl, L Zhang, J Wang - Environmental Science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In addition to the much-publicized environmental impact of CO2 emission by air traffic,
aviation particulate emission also deserves attention. The abundant ultrafine particles in the …

BN & CFD-based quantitative risk assessment of the natural gas explosion in utility tunnels

Y Bai, J Wu, Y Sun, J Cai, J Cao, L Pang - Journal of Loss Prevention in the …, 2022 - Elsevier
The utility tunnel hosting the natural gas pipeline raises concerns about the potential gas
explosion. Although some work focuses on risk assessment of leakage and explosion of the …