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A railcar derailed near Paulsboro, New Jersey, leaking an unknown liquid from placard 1086. Additional railcars were also leaking various fuels and fluids. An incident commander requested an assessment of fire potential and recommended protective equipment for placard 1086. Current weather conditions including wind speed, temperature, and stability class were provided. The commander directed the use of CAMEO Chemicals and MARPLOT to identify the chemical, hazards, isolation and evacuation zones, and population estimates to respond to the incident. ALOHA was then used to model threat zones from the leak using estimated tank and chemical release information to assist response efforts.

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Scenario

A railcar derailed near Paulsboro, New Jersey, leaking an unknown liquid from placard 1086. Additional railcars were also leaking various fuels and fluids. An incident commander requested an assessment of fire potential and recommended protective equipment for placard 1086. Current weather conditions including wind speed, temperature, and stability class were provided. The commander directed the use of CAMEO Chemicals and MARPLOT to identify the chemical, hazards, isolation and evacuation zones, and population estimates to respond to the incident. ALOHA was then used to model threat zones from the leak using estimated tank and chemical release information to assist response efforts.

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Scenario:

At 7:00 am on November 30, 2012, a railcar displaying placard number 1086 derailed
near Paulsboro, New Jersey. The vehicle came to rest in a creek and appeared to leaking
liquid product, from a 1 x 3 gash located about halfway up one side of the railcar. There
is no fire involved at present; but Incident Command wants to know your assessment of
any fire potential for this leaking product, placard 1086. In addition, there are a number
of damaged railcars leaking what appears to be any number of products, including
gasoline, diesel fuel, hydraulic fluids, anti-freeze, and even possibly battery acid.

Current weather conditions are as follows:

Wind: from the NE; 4 mph with gusts to 10 mph (obtained from local airport)
Ground Roughness: open country Cloud Cover: Clear Skies
Air Temperature: 35° F Stability Class: D
No Inversion Height Relative Humidity: 66%

You are directed to operate CAMEO and supply information to Incident Command for
the duration of this event.

CAMEO Chemicals
1. Use CAMEO Chemicals to gather information for placard number 1086.
a. Is this material liquid, solid, or gas?
b. Is it likely that this material is carried in Liquid Tankers or Pressurized
Tankers?
c. What are the primary hazards associated with this material?
d. Is there any significant fire/explosion hazard associated with this material?
e. What are the exposure routes and recommended Protective Clothing for
this material?
2. Is there a “green page” entry for this material in the ERG?
3. Use the CAMEO Chemicals “Predict Reactivity” module to evaluate the potential
reactive hazards for this incident.
4. Determine the Initial Isolation Zone and Evacuation distances appropriate for this
scenario.
5. Can this material be modeled using ALOHA? If so, what PAC (Protective Action
Criteria) would you recommend using as the ALOHA Level of Concern (LOC)?
MARPLOT
1. Launch MARPLOT
2. Select a location in your area to use as the incident site; or use the location at
Latitude = 39.834881°N Longitude = 75.236661°W
3. Navigate to the incident location
4. Mark the incident location using the “Symbol Tool”
5. Use the “Circle” drawing tool to display the 330 FEET Immediate Isolation Zone
on the map
6. Use the “Polygon” drawing tool to display the largest ERG-suggestion downwind
evacuation area
7. Copy and paste a screenshot of the mapped area from MARPLOT to WORD.
(CAMEO Companion pages 85)

330 foot Immediate Isolation Area; ERG Downwind; 1.0 mile Fire Evac area

330 foot Immediate Isolation Area; ERG Downwind; 1.0 mile Fire Evac area
POPULATION ESTIMATES:

For 330 foot Isolation Zone: 0


For Protection Area: 394
For 1.0 mile Evac Area: 1212

ALOHA
1. Use ALOHA to create a Threat Zone using your best estimates for Tank
Dimensions, Leak Dimensions, and other information.
2. Use the following data:

CHEMICAL DATA:
Chemical Name: VINYL CHLORIDE
CAS Number: 75-1-4 Molecular Weight: 62.50 g/mol
AEGL-1 (60 min): 250 ppm AEGL-2 (60 min): 1200 ppm AEGL-3 (60 min): 4800
ppm
LEL: 36000 ppm UEL: 330000 ppm
Carcinogenic risk - see CAMEO Chemicals
Ambient Boiling Point: 7.0° F
Vapor Pressure at Ambient Temperature: greater than 1 atm
Ambient Saturation Concentration: 1,000,000 ppm or 100.0%

ATMOSPHERIC DATA: (MANUAL INPUT OF DATA)


Wind: 4 miles/hour from NE at 10 meters
Ground Roughness: open country Cloud Cover: 0 tenths
Air Temperature: 35° F Stability Class: F
No Inversion Height Relative Humidity: 66%

SOURCE STRENGTH:
Leak from hole in horizontal cylindrical tank
Flammable chemical escaping from tank (not burning)
Tank Diameter: 9.72 feet Tank Length: 54 feet
Tank Volume: 30000 gallons
Tank contains liquid Internal Temperature: 35° F
Chemical Mass in Tank: 94.5 tons Tank is 80% full
Opening Length: 1 inches Opening Width: 3 inches
Opening is 4.86 feet from tank bottom
Release Duration: ALOHA limited the duration to 1 hour
Max Average Sustained Release Rate: 2,030 pounds/min
(averaged over a minute or more)
Total Amount Released: 102,352 pounds
Note: The chemical escaped as a mixture of gas and aerosol (two phase flow).
Display the Threat Zone for the Toxic Area

Notice that for this incident, the ALOHA Toxic Threat Zones correspond fairly well to the
“user-drawn ERG-suggested” zones.
Select the ALOHA Layer menu in MARPLOT
3. Choose “Export Layer”

4. Select “kmz” file type; name the file “Vinyl Chloride Toxic for Google
Earth.KMZ”; save to your computer desktop.
5. Go to your computer desktop and “double-click” on the KMZ file, this should
automatically open Google Earth and display the Threat Zone

Vinyl Chloride TOXIC Threat Zone


6. Repeat the above processes for Flammable and VCE Threat Zones in ALOHA; at
the conclusion of the steps, your Google Earth map should display all three Threat
Zones and you may toggle each of them on/off from the left side of the Google
Earth screen

Vinyl Chloride FLAMMABLE Threat Zone

Vinyl Chloride VCE Threat Zone

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