Christophe Proust

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of measurements of laminar burning velocities and of maximum flame temperatures for combustible dust-air mixtures (starch dust air mixtures, lycopodium-air mixture and sulphur flour air mixture) are presented, and compared with those obtained with other devices such as resistors, pyrometers and are compared to the theoretical values.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic testwork with a number of different dusts, the explosion indices as determined within the 20l sphere and with the ISO-VDI 1m 3 vessel have been compared.

TL;DR: In this paper, a homogeneous relaxation flow model was developed to simulate the discharge behavior following the full bore rupture of dense phase CO 2 pipelines, and the model's robustness was successfully demonstrated based on a series of hypothetical shock tube tests.

TL;DR: In this paper, the formation of flammable clouds resulting from a finite duration leakage of hydrogen in a quiescent room (80m 3 chamber) was studied, and the experimental results have been used to assess and benchmark CFD tools capabilities.

TL;DR: In this article, a computational fluid dynamic model capable of accurately representing the complex physics observed in such a release, essential if dispersion phenomena are to be accurately predicted, is presented. But the model is not suitable for the modeling of CO 2 pipelines and intermediate storage vessels.