RELEASE NOTE

PHAST TM

Taking hazard and risk analysis one step further

Version: 8.22
Date: July 2019
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Date: July 2019

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Table of contents
1 BUG FIXES ................................................................................................................ 1

2 ALERTS AND WORKAROUNDS ....................................................................................... 3

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1 BUG FIXES
The following bugs have been fixed in this release:

84201 Side-effect dialog gets displayed after editing an object even when there should be no
results to delete

Description This is a minor bug where a dialog would appear to warn the user that a change they
want to apply in the model will invalidate results even though the study does not have
any results.

86103 Direction wrong for cratered release

Description Invalid selections for drop down lists were permitted in the grid editor. The dialog for the
item would need to be opened following the change in order to correct the issue.

87501 Significant evaporated mass lost from system

Description When the pool evaporation rate is below the cut-off, evaporated mass is not accounted
for in the dispersing cloud. Normally this is an insignificant loss, but for very small,
flammable only releases where almost everything rains out is this may not be the case,
and a UDM3 188 error may result.

88807 Excel import takes an excessive amount of time

Description Importing excel data via the Data tab would take an excessive amount of time,
sometimes hours for large studies.

89257 Radiation contour graphs cannot be produced from a Standalone Jet Fire generated from a
source model

Description For standalone jet fires generated from a source model (e.g. a leak model), the radiation
contour graphs cannot be produced. The workaround was to create a separate
standalone equipment manually and then copy the generated standalone jet fire into the
new standalone equipment.

89786 Incorrect legend for explosion overpressure vs distance graph

Description The legend of the explosion overpressure vs distance graph contains two items that do
not correspond to any of the curves.

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89827 Standalone fire model radiation GIS result do not display the radiation intensity level of the
contour in the legend

Description When viewing radiation intensity on the GIS of a standalone fire model, the radiation
intensity is not shown in the legend.

89859 Building not depicted in side view plot

Description The side view plot of a warehouse model does not show the building.

90125 Importing a standalone pool fire with radiation side view as the option requires 'height
above origin' to be specified

Description When importing a standalone pool fire with radiation side view as the option, the ‘height
above origin’ has a red border, suggesting to the user that it needs to be specified,
despite that field only being applicable to the footprint plot.

90784 Standalone fire fails under some unique circumstances

Description If the user creates a standalone fire with some radiation calculation turned on, runs the
model then selects some alternative radiation calculations, the model will subsequently
fail to run. Clearing results and running again would fix the problem.

91795 DispersionResults:ReleasePhases has been incorrectly removed from the schema and can
cause issues on file load

Description On rare occasions, errors can occur when opening a study, which might cause alarm
even though the errors themselves do not cause any issues.

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2 ALERTS AND WORKAROUNDS
There are some known bugs that have not been fixed in this release, and some aspects of the program
that may give behaviour that you do not expect, e.g. because of minor enhancements or minor changes
in the modelling that may produce slight differences in the results.

47066, Time-varying discharge calculations may fail for a mixture

47093

Description The discharge calculations may fail for a time-varying Scenario if the material is a
mixture, especially if the conditions are near the critical point.

The time-varying calculations are more likely to run successfully if you simplify the
mixture, e.g. to two components that have similar properties. If the calculations still fail
with the simplified mixture, you should perform the time-varying calculations using a
single pure component.

Non-time-varying calculations with the Leak or Short pipe Scenarios may run
successfully for the mixture, especially if you have a licence for the multi-component
modelling and select the multi-component option for the Equipment item. With the initial
release rate from these calculations and with time-varying results for a simplified
mixture or single component, you could make an estimate of the time-varying behaviour
and define this in a User-defined source Scenario.

47089 The Normal boiling point can be edited for a mixture that is using the Phast64 property
method template, and this will give inconsistencies in the modelling

Description If you set the template for a mixture to Phast64 and click on Calculate, the Normal
boiling point will be one of the fields in the list of properties that is enabled and
editable. However, if you change the value, you will find that inconsistencies occur for
Equipment items that have the mixture selected, both in the calculations of phase and
limits in the Materials tab, and in the consequence calculations for Scenarios.

If you have edited the normal boiling point for any mixture, you should reset it to the
calculated value by editing the mixture and clicking on Calculate.

47108 Time-varying short pipe Scenarios can take a long time to run or give oscillations in the
discharge results

Description Some Time-varying short pipe Scenarios experience problems with numerical
convergence which can give long run times and oscillations in the discharge conditions.
Pressurized liquid Scenarios are those most likely to experience these problems.

Editing the Material and setting the Property method template to SRK-IdealFugacity
may improve the performance for such Scenarios.

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47242 Upgraded standalone pool vaporization Models from v6 not included in any Model
Selection

Description If you upgrade a v6.54 or v6.7 file that includes a standalone Pool Vaporization Model,
the Model will be upgraded as a Spill Scenario under an AST Equipment item, but it will
be removed from the Model Selection which means that it will not be included when you
run the calculations, no matter which Run Row is selected.

The upgrade is handled in this way because the standalone Pool Vaporization Model
cannot be used in the risk calculations, but the Spill Scenario can. The Spill Scenario will
be incomplete on upgrade because there is no event frequency specified, and it is
removed from the Model Selection so that it does not cause problems with the risk
calculations.

You should decide whether or not you want to include the Scenario in the risk
calculations. If you decide not to include it but you do want to be able to run the
consequence calculations for it, you should create a separate Model Selection and Run
Row for it, and only run the consequences calculations for that Run Row.

49542 Reports flagged out of date when you change the averaging time for the graph

Description If you have both Reports and Graphs open for a Scenario, and you use the Edit Settings
dialog for the Graphs to change the selection of averaging time, you will find that the
Reports are shown as being out of date, even though the change to the averaging time is
only relevant to the Graphs.

49599 Jet Fire Contour graph for a standalone Jet Fire Scenario shown as out of date after
checking option to Show Flame Shape

Description If the option to plot side view contours is selected for a standalone Jet Fire Scenario, the
option to Show Flame Shape will be enabled in the Consequence tab of the Ribbon Bar
when the Jet Fire Contour Graph is selected. If you check this option, the Graphs will be
shown incorrectly as being out of date.

51043 Results for a User-defined Source Scenario are not cleared on changing the input data

Description If you run the calculations for a User-defined Source Scenario and then change the input
data for the Scenario, the results will not be cleared and the Scenario will be shown with
a green tick in the Study Tree, showing that it has results that the program regards as
up to date. To be able to rerun the calculations for the Scenario with the changed input
data, you must right-click on the Scenario and select Clear results.

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68469 Dispersion results for vertical releases

Description The dispersion calculations for vertical releases can be problematic, particularly when
determining downwind concentrations. The algorithms are based on tangents to the
centreline, and therefore vertical or near vertical clouds can run into difficulties that
require special handling. In some cases it has become apparent that this can lead to
concentration predictions that are generally over-conservative. In most cases these
problems can be solved by reducing the release angle so it is just off vertical, e.g. to 85
degrees from the horizontal.

D-12431 A User-defined Source Scenario generated from a Scenario with multi-rate time-varying
discharge results will give Jet Fire results that are different from those for the original
Scenario

Description The right-click menu for a source Scenario that has results present will include the option
to generate a User-defined Source Scenario. The discharge results for the selected
Scenario will be used as the definition of the release observers for the User-defined
Source Scenario.

If the original Scenario is a Time-varying leak Scenario, a Time-varying short pipe

Scenario or a Location specific breach Scenario, and the Method for calculating
average rate is set to Up to 10 rates in the Time varying releases tab section, then if
you compare the results between the original Scenario and the generated User-defined
Source Scenario, you will find that the results for dispersion, toxic results and delayed
flammable effects are identical, but that the jet fire results are different. For the original
Scenario, the jet fire calculations use discharge conditions based on the full, detailed
discharge results, whereas for the generated User-defined Source Scenario, the
calculations use discharge conditions based on the list of release observers in the
Scenario tab section. These discharge conditions can be quite different between the two
Scenarios, giving different jet fire results, especially if the release rate changes rapidly at
the start of the release. Typically, the calculations for the User-defined Source will use a
higher discharge rate and give a larger jet fire with greater effect distances.

When you generate a User-defined Source Scenario from a Scenario that has Method
for calculating average rate set to Up to 10 rates, a warning message about the
differences in jet fire results will be written to the Output View.

D-13218 For very low values of the Concentration of Interest, the Summary Report may give values
for the distance to the concentration even though it was not reached

Description If the value set for the Concentration of Interest is 1 ppm or lower, then the Summary
Report may give values for the distance to reach this concentration, even though this
concentration was not in fact exceeded during the dispersion. The program will report a
distance to a concentration if the concentrations are within either 1 ppm or 1% of the
target value, whichever is smaller, and this can give misleading results if the target value
itself is of the order of 1 ppm.

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