2. Using Software
• ALOHA (Areal Locations of Hazardous
Atmosphere)
• MARPLOT (Mapping Application for Response,
Planning, and Local Operational Tasks)
• CAMEO
3. Chlorine Introduction
PROPERTIES-: Greenish-yellow gas, Pungent, irritating
& suffocating odour.
SYMPTOMS-: Symptoms of exposure to chlorine gas
also include nausea, headache, dizziness and syncope,
muscle weakness, choking (cramps in the pharyngeal
muscles), epigastria pain, a feeling of suffocation,
dermatitis, retrosternal burning and sub-sternal pain,
respiratory distress, shortness of breath, pneumonia,
bronchospasm and acute lung injury.
Bronchopneumonia or respiratory collapse may be
lethal complications.
4. Chlorine Analysis
CHEMICAL DATA
Chemical Name: CHLORINE
Molecular Weight: 70.91 g/mol
AEGL-1 (60 min): 0.5 ppm AEGL-2 (60 min): 2
ppm AEGL-3 (60 min): 20 ppm
ATMOSPHERIC DATA: (MANUAL INPUT OF
DATA)
Wind: 6 meters/second from E at 3 meters
Ground Roughness: open country
Air Temperature: 42° C
Relative Humidity: 5%
SOURCE STRENGTH:
Leak from hole in horizontal cylindrical tank
Non-flammable chemical is escaping from tank
Tank Diameter: 2.24 feet
Tank Length: 6 feet
Tank Volume: 177 gallons
Tank contains liquid
Internal Temperature: 42° C
Chemical Mass in Tank: 900 kilograms
Tank is 100% full
Circular Opening Diameter: 1.27 centimeters
Opening is 1 centimeters from tank bottom
Release Duration: 4 minutes
Max Average Sustained Release Rate: 250
kilograms/min (averaged over a minute or
more)
Total Amount Released: 898 kilograms
Note: The chemical escaped as a mixture of
gas and aerosol (two phase flow).
THREAT ZONE: (HEAVY GAS SELECTED)
Model Run: Heavy Gas
Red : 1.1 kilometers --- (20 ppm = AEGL-3
[60 min])
Orange: 3.8 kilometers --- (2 ppm = AEGL-2
[60 min])
Yellow: 7.5 kilometers --- (0.5 ppm = AEGL-1
[60 min])
7. Criteria for Planning
What are at Risk
• Residential area, Market etc
• Schools
• Industries
• Hospitals
• Recourses
Who are at Risk
• Respiratory illness, Aged
People, Chronically illed
• Children
• Labors
• Patients
• Water Bodies, Plantations,
Animals etc
Response in Emergency
Capacity Building