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Consequence and Risk Analysis of releases of hazardous materials from buried pipelines made easy
Releases of hazardous materials from buried pipelines can have disastrous consequences. A rupture and ignition of flammable gas from a buried pipeline in British Columbia, Canada initiated a forest fire which resulted in 1.6 hectares of land being bu ...
A new perspective on risk results from Safeti
The traditional and most common way of viewing risk results (i.e. contours) from a quantitative risk analysis (QRA) study of a hazardous facility is in plan (i.e. birds eye) view on a location map (see Figure 1). Figure 1: Traditional plan view of ...
Explainer: What is Along Wind Diffusion (AWD) and Why is it important in Dispersion Modelling?
Primer on Dispersion Modelling When a material (e.g. a pollutant or chemical) is released to the atmosphere - there are two main physical processes that govern its transport/movement away from the source: Advection (bulk movement of the materia ...
Top blog posts in 2016
2016 was a great year for us in DNV GL - we started our digitalisation programme, engaged on the new ecosystems and wrote many blog posts! These posts are that you liked the most. Please see below a list of the Top blog posts in 2016: January 2016 ...
Greetings from the North Pole!
Our colleague Tom Gilmour, head of Product Strategy for DNV GL - Software, recently received this letter from a satisfied customer, and we thought you would like to see it. Enjoy! Hi! Santa here; just wanted to give an update on how the trans ...
Perfect storm for the next accident? Data analysis
This post is the second part of an article that we published in the beginning of the year - Perfect storm for the next accident?. Data analysis shows that the concerns raised at the beginning of the year are becoming reality. The Safety Performance ...
New version of Phast and Safeti (7.2) now available
We are pleased to announce the release of Safeti and Phast 7.2. With this release, Phast and Safeti are now fully aligned on the version 7 platform, which means that Safeti customers can now take advantage of the many benefits and improvements introd ...
Dynamic Results Dashboard for Visualizing QRA Results
At first sight, the image below looks like a picture... It is anything but that. It is a dynamic, interactive dashboard showing risk results (Potential Loss of Life or PLL for short) from a (Quantitative Risk Assessment) QRA study done usin ...
Reporting live from the International Software Summit!
All this week, the full force of DNV GL - Software has converged upon 'The Sweetest Place on Earth', also known as Hershey, PA, USA, for the 2016 International Software Summit! Great social event at the Antique Auto Museum of America! Nearly 20 ...
User seminar report from Calgary...
Jan Windhort (right) collects his prize from Richard Fletcher, Canada Area Manager (left) Recently, DNV GL - Software hosted our third annual Product User Seminar in beautiful Calgary, in Alberta Canada. The all-day event featured three separate t ...