title: Case study: flame arresters and exploding gasoline containers.
abstract: This paper describes the case study of a portable plastic gasoline container explosion and fire. While working at home on a science project to determine the burn rates of different types of wood fuel, a 14-year-old boy was severely burned after flames traveled back up into the portable gasoline container and exploded. A witness heard the explosion and reports that the flames went perhaps 10 ft in the air. It is shown by experimentation that a flame arrester installed in the pour opening of the portable gasoline container would have prevented an explosion inside the gasoline container.
authors.affiliation: Stress Engineering Services Inc., Houston, TX 77041, USA. lori.hasselbring@stress.com
authors.forename: Lori C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Hasselbring
mesh_terms: D000061:Accidents, Home / Q000517:prevention & control; D000293:Adolescent; D002057:Burns, Chemical / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005107:Explosions; D005742:Gasoline; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010969:Plastics; D019064:Product Packaging / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D005742:Gasoline; D010969:Plastics