GexCon today announced the release of a software package aimed at plugging an industry “missing link”.
The software, FLUCAS-Fire, is designed for the oil and gas, processing and industrial segments and enables the generation of detailed models of both jet and pool fires.
It examines a range of scenarios including jet fires in cross winds, flash fires, over-ventilated compartment fires and large-scale field experiments. It also analyses route impairment, vessel heat-up modelling, offshore and onshore installations, and factory building fires.
GexCon vice president of products Djurre Siccama said: “Fire modelling has been the missing link for our users, particularly in the offshore oil and gas segment, where high momentum jet fires and pool fires are major hazards.
“It creates a ‘one-stop-shop’ for safety engineers; a single modelling platform for enhanced understanding, efficiency and most of all, safety.”
The firm’s software and services have been used to assess a wide range of incidents, including Piper Alpha, Deep Water Horizon, TWA 800, the P-36 platform, Buncefield, and the Texas City Refinery explosion in 2005.