1Centre for Pollution Control & Environmental Engineering Pondicherry University, Chinakalapet, Puducherry, 605 014, India
2Environmental Research Institute University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, 248 007, India
Online published on 19 April, 2019.
A large number of process industries deal with reactants and products that are highly flammable and/or toxic. Such substances have to be transported to and from the industries in large quantities on a regular basis. If the automobile, train, or ship carrying such a substance meets with an accident, it may lead to the spilling of the substance and an escalation of the transportation accident into a chemical-related disaster as a consequence. It may also happen that a flammable substance gets leaked out, catches fire, and causes the carriage to suffer an accident which otherwise would not have occurred. In either situation great harm may be caused to the area where a transportation accident of this type takes place. This paper tracks the case histories of some of the major accidents involving transportation of hazardous substances and examines the models available to forecast the severity and the consequences of such accidents.
Flammable substances, toxic chemicals, accidents, transportation, consequence modeling
