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FPE SEMINAR SERIES  -  Prof.  Jenq-Renn Chen National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Fire Protection Engineering Department\nFPE SEMINAR SERIES\nFriday, October 3, 2025\n11:
 00 am 鈥?Noon\n50 Prescott Street, Gateway II, Room 1226\nhttps://wpi.zoo
 m.us/j/320855113\nAnalysis of Leak and Explosion from an Underground Pipel
 ine in Kaohsiung, Taiwan\nABSTRACT\nOn 11:57 PM, July 31 of 2014, a destru
 ctive explosion occurred in downtown Kaohsiung which resulted in 32 fatali
 ties and more than 300 injuries. The explosion was caused by a leak and ig
 nition of propylene vapor from an underground pipeline. The background of 
 the pipeline, cause of leak, spread of the vapor, response of the leak, id
 entification of a possible ignition source, extent of the damage were anal
 yzed in detail. Measures that were taken to prevent future any incident we
 re also summarized.\nBIOGRAPHY\nJenq-Renn Chen isa DistinguishedProfessor 
 inthe Department of Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering, National
  Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (NKUST), Taiwan. Previousl
 y, he has held the position as Chairman of the Department, Dean of College
  of Engineering, and the Vice President in National Kaohsiung First Univer
 sity of Science and Technology (NKFUST). NKFUST was merged into NKUST from
  February 2018. He is also in charge of the Taiwan EPA Southern Emergency 
 Response Team, which provided emergency response of chemical incidents to 
 southern Taiwan. He received MSc and PhD from Imperial College, London, UK
 , both in Chemical Engineering. He has 2 US patents, 6 Taiwan patents, and
  authored more than60 refereed papers in international journals, all in th
 e broad range of chemical process safety. He also participated in more tha
 n200 hazardous chemicaland gasemergency responses and incident investigati
 ons in Taiwan, including the catastrophic Kaohsiung explosion in 2014. His
  current research interests are gas explosion,ignition mechanism, and fund
 amental aspects of chemical releases.\n
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