TAM Consulting, L.L.C.

Chemical Engineering Consulting and Technical Software Design

Consequence Analysis


With more than fifteen years of experience in modeling and simulation of accidents in the chemical and petrochemical industries, TAM Consulting is uniquely qualified to evaluate the potential consequence and impacts of failures in processes involving potentially hazardous materials. 


 

Models Used

EPA Recognized Dispersion Models

  • TSCREEN
  • SCREEN3
  • ISC3
  • DEGADIS
  • SLAB
  • HGSYSTEM
  • AERMOD
  • CALPUFF

Computational Fluid Dynamics Models

  • FDS 5 - Fire Dynamics Simulator - A CFD model appropriate for modeling bouyancy-dominated flows and fires.
  • OpenFOAM - A freely available CFD framework that is applicable to fires, vapor dispersion, solid mechanics, vapor cloud explosions and is extensible to almost any reacting or non-reacting fluid dynamics situation.

 


PDRFoam Propane Explosion
 

Applications

Terrorism or Sabotage

  • Protection of critical infrastructure
  • Consequence mitigation

Accidental Releases

  • Public Impacts
  • Evacuation Plans
  • Building Siting