Announcing EFFECTS and RISKCURVES v12.4
We are pleased to announce the release of our latest software update—EFFECTS and RISKCURVES v12.4
What’s new in EFFECTS and RISKCURVES v12.4?
- Battery thermal runaway model
Battery thermal runaway is a critical safety concern, and accurately modelling these events has been challenging—until now.
With this new feature, EFFECTS becomes the first consequence modelling software capable of simulating toxic releases from battery energy storage system (BESS) thermal runaway incidents. The results from this model can then be used for passive dispersion calculations to assess the impact of toxic gas spread.
This allows you to better predict and mitigate risks, ensuring safer and more compliant operations.
- Crater formation model
The rupture of a buried pipeline can have devastating consequences, including loss of life, property damage, economic setbacks, and environmental harm.
This new model analyses the aftermath of buried pipeline ruptures and crater formation, which results can be integrated seamlessly with the dispersion and jet fire models. This enhancement provides a comprehensive assessment of such events, enabling more effective response strategies, particularly for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) initiatives and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) facilities.
- Enhanced dispersion model for vertical jet releases
Accurate analysis of hazardous material dispersion is essential for effective safety planning.
The dispersion model in EFFECTS has been improved for vertical jet releases, focusing on a more accurate representation of the complex mixing mechanisms, including lateral vortices that occur in crossflow conditions. These enhancements are based on extensive validation against a diverse set of experimental data, specifically chosen for their relevance to accidental release scenarios.
As a result, users can expect more reliable predictions of both jet trajectories and concentration distributions, leading to better assessments of effect distances in safety analysis.