United States Department of Transportation
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Reducing Flammability for Bakken Crude Oil for Train Transport Phase II
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2020-04-01
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Edition:Final Report (July 2018 – Dec 2019)
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Abstract:Various crude oil train derailments in recent years have exposed critical shortcomings in existing rail infrastructure. These incidents lead to large oil spills, and the oil finds itself in the presence of various hot surfaces on the site. This is an especially dangerous situation in the case of Bakken crude, which is of a light variety and contains significant amounts of easy to evaporate, easy to ignite light ends, and usually the result is an intense fireball. Previous research done by Prof Albert Ratner et al under MATC-DOT sponsorship has concluded that polymeric additives improve fire safety in diesel fuel and its blends. There is a strong indication that the same will be true for crude oil. This report covers efforts part of the larger goals of the five-year project to improve fire safety during transportation by adding long chain polymers and carbon-based nanoparticle to crude oil before shipping. This work has resulted in several journal papers and other manuscripts that are under development. This work is expected to help to model combustion characteristics of crude oil, and moreover, these results are unique. These works will also aid to evaluate splashing characteristics of crude oil and how to modify them for making crude oil transport safer.
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