Multiscale Modeling for Process Safety Applications

3.10. Water Reactive Chemicals

Water reactive chemicals are generally aggressive materials and can produce chemicals that are hazardous to human health and the environment. It is defined as a reactive chemical, which in contact with water leads to a spontaneous reaction. The exact nature, kinetics, and thermodynamics of this reaction govern the subsequent consequences of this type of release (Fernie et al., 2007). As a result, consequence analysis and dispersion modeling of water reactive chemicals, such as the ones incorporated in facility siting studies, are very challenging. The little experimental data available to validate mathematical models make those models susceptible to discrepancies on of its consequence estimates. As referred to ...