Pipeline Risk Management Manual: Ideas, Techniques, and Resources, Third Edition

Appendix A: Typical Pipeline Products

This appendix shows some physical and chemical properties of common pipeline products. These properties are often useful in risk assessments, especially when evaluating product hazards, spill sizes, and hazard zones as portions of the potential consequence assessment.

Product

Boiling Pt ( F)

N h

N f

N r

RQ points [a]

Benzene

176

2

3

0

8

1, 3-Butadiene

24

2

4

2

10

Butane

31

1

4

0

2

Carbon monoxide

?314

2

4

0

2

Chlorine

3

0

0

8

Ethane

?128

1

4

0

2

Ethyl alcohol

173

0

3

0

4

Ethylbenzene

277

2

3

0

4

Ethylene

?155

1

4

2

2

Ethylene glycol

387

1

1

0

6

Fuel oil (#1 #6)

304 574

0

2

0

6

Gasoline

100 400

1

3

0

6

Hydrogen

?422

0

4

0

0

Hydrogen sulfide

?76

3

4

0

6

Isobutane

11

1

4

0

2 [b]

Isopentane

82

1

4

0

6

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