Gas explosion simulators are often used as tools in process plant design, This article presents some properties of gas explosions found using the EXSIM simulation software on three offshore modules with a total of nearly 10,000 simulations. The selected results are chosen for their supposed applicability to structural design in the process industries.
Generalized data are presented for the effect of gas cloud size, explosion impulse vs. explosion pressure, pressure and impulse vs, duration, the probability of a "short" explosion, loading rate, pressure-time "shape" function, and the effect of introducing louvres.