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Main Title Building Effects on Heavy Gas Jet Dispersion.
Author Schatzmann, M. ; Snyder, W. H. ; Lawson, R. E. ;
CORP Author Hamburg Univ. (Germany, F.R.). Meteorological Inst.;Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Research and Exposure Assessment Lab.;North Carolina State Univ. at Raleigh. Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
Publisher 1995
Year Published 1995
Report Number EPA-R-817931; EPA/600/A-95/042;
Stock Number PB95-192647
Additional Subjects Wakes ; Gas flow ; Dispersions ; Air pollution ; Environmental transport ; Risk assessment ; Accidents ; Wind tunnels ; Buildings ; Surfaces ; Surface concentration
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NTIS  PB95-192647 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
A wind tunnel study was performed to determine the effect of a single building on the dispersion characteristics of a high-momentum heavy gas jet as it might emerge from the release valve of a pressurized storage tank. Building-surface concentrations have been measured at corresponding locations with and without the building for varying wind speeds, wind directions, source/building distances and building shapes. It was found that, compared with a free jet at corresponding distances, the presence of a single building decreases rather than increases building-surface concentration maxima and lowers the flammability or toxicity radii.