FLACS - Hydrogen
FLACS-HYDROGEN has the same capabilities as the full FLACS version with regard to hydrogen dispersion and explosions, or situations in which hydrogen is dominating the gas mixture. This version of FLACS can be useful for risk evaluations in connection with the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier, for nuclear plants, in chemical factories, synthesis gas (gas to liquid processes) and microprocessor factories (on request Silane SiH4 will also be possible to model).
With FLACS-HYDROGEN one can simulate and evaluate to what extent a leak scenario may produce flammable gas clouds in the given scenario, and further to what extent the flammable gas clouds may represent a significant risk. FLACS has been able to simulate hydrogen explosions since before 1990. In recent years a number of research projects have been considering the validity of FLACS in the area of hydrogen explosions.
Capabilities include:
- Manual geometry definition or import from CAD
- Efficient pre-processing, reasonable simulation times
- Dispersion of hydrogen dominated mixtures from leak
- Explosion of dispersed or pre-defined gas clouds
- Pressure curves at various locations and walls (averaged)
- Pressure relief panels with inertia can represent collapsing walls
- 2D and 3D field plots of various variables (flame and maximum pressure)
- Automatic generation of mpg-videos from postprocessor
- And more