Consequence Modelling News

MES enters into a multi-year contract to expand its capability in the area of advanced risk and consequence modelling using FLACS-CFD.

Gexcon is pleased to be presenting at this year’s Chemeca 2023, taking place 01 – 03 October 2023 at Hilton, Auckland, New Zealand. Gexcon Australia Process Safety Engineer Julian Annett Chee, will discuss how using advanced software simulation such as FLACS-CFD and

Gexcon is pleased to announce that we will be presenting at this year’s Hydrogen Safety & Hazardous Areas Conference 2023, taking place 10th – 11th August in Perth, Australia. Hosted by IDC Technologies, the conference brings together a wide range of subject

We are pleased to announce that EFFECTS and RISKCURVES v12 is now live and available for download for our users.

Gexcon is pleased to sponsor this year’s CCPS Latin American Conference on Process Safety, which will be held on October 18-20 at the Prodigy Santos Dumont Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The registration for the 2022 FLACS-CFD User Group (FLUG) Meeting, which will take place virtually on 31 October – 3 November, is now open!

We are pleased to announce that Gexcon will attend this year’s Hazards32 as exhibitors, which takes place between the 18 -20 October at the Harrogate Convention Centre, Harrogate, UK.

Gexcon is pleased to participate in this year’s Mary Kay O’Connor Safety & Risk Conference, which will be held on October 5-7 in the Texas A&M Hotel and Conference Center, College Station, TX, US. 

Gexcon is pleased to announce Sonia Ruiz-Pérez as our new Product Manager for EFFECTS and RISKCURVES, effective 1st August 2022.

We are pleased to announce that Gexcon will attend this year’s Gastech exhibition and conference, which takes place from 5th – 8th of September in Milan, Italy.

We are pleased to announce that Gexcon will be attending the 3rd International Hydrogen Aviation Conference (IHAC), which will be held as a hybrid event on the 1st of September 2022, with the live session located in Glasgow, Scotland.

Gexcon is pleased to participate in the 14th International Symposium on Hazards, Prevention and Mitigation of Industrial Explosions which will be held in Braunschweig, Germany from 11 – 15 July 2022.

Gexcon’s Board of Directors and Executive Leadership Team are pleased to announce that Gexcon AB, Gexcon’s subsidiary in Sweden, is now officially established to support our clients in Sweden, Denmark and Finland. This decision comes as part of Gexcon’s continuous efforts to…

We are pleased to announce that Gexcon UK will be participating as keynote speakers at Cranfield University’s International Symposium on Risk Assessment Approaches for Decision Making, which takes place online 25th – 26th May 2022. Managing Director Dave Price and Dr. Chris

Gexcon India team secured the 1st place and Best Presentation Topic award at the EPAE 2021 held at The Silesian University of Technology, Poland.

We are pleased to announce that Shell FRED 2022 is now live and available for download.

This course covers the standard modules in FLACS-CFD, such as geometry import and generation, gas dispersion, explosion, and fire, as well as liquid pool spread. It also comprises presentations on validations, explosion mitigation, QA, and probabilistic risk analysis (Including a FLACS-Risk demonstration).

This course covers the standard modules in FLACS-CFD, such as geometry import and generation, gas dispersion, explosion, and fire, as well as liquid pool spread. It also comprises presentations on validations, explosion mitigation, QA, and probabilistic risk analysis (Including a FLACS-Risk demonstration).

Gexcon will be presenting two papers at the 2021 Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Symposium: “Improving our understanding of Hydrogen to avoid possible pitfalls and ensure its safe use” and “Devastating Ammonium Nitrate Detonations: Why haven’t we learned from past incidents and avoided explosions in Beirut, Tianjin, and West Texas?”

Gexcon is participating on the SPE International Webinar: CFD Modeling for Process Safety and Environmental Risk Assessment with a presentation entitled “Innovative and efficient CFD method to solve hydrogen combustion for the energy industry”.

Gexcon UK’s Energy Transition Technical Lead, Dr Karina Almeida Leñero will be presenting at FABIG Technical Meeting taking place this Thursday 7th October 2021. 

    This course is an introduction to the theory and applications of Shell FRED 2020. It will cover all the existing consequence modeling scenarios within the software, including source term modelling, pool formation, gas dispersion, jet and pool fires, impinging fires, vessel burst smoke ingress in buildings/temporary refuge, and explosion scenarios in congested and/or confined areas. Upon completion of this course,…

We are pleased to invite you to join industry experts for a week of online seminars and insights about FLACS-CFD at the FLUG Week 2021.

We are pleased to invite you to join industry experts for a week of online seminars and insights about FLACS-CFD at the FLUG Week event.

This course is an introduction to the theory and applications of Shell FRED 2020. It will cover all the existing consequence modeling scenarios within the software, including source term modelling, pool formation, gas dispersion, jet and pool fires, impinging fires, vessel burst smoke ingress in buildings/temporary refuge, and explosion scenarios in congested and/or confined areas. Upon completion of this course, participants will…

English Version On December 14, Dr. Franz Zdravistch presented at “Dispersion, leaks, explosion and 2D and 3D modeling” webinar hosted by PETROPERU S.A. Over 200 people from Peru and neighboring countries people attended the webinar. During his presentation, Dr. Franz Zdravistch covered the fundamental…

FLACS-CFD 20.2 is now live – a minor software update to improve the user experience. The update does not include any critical changes and includes a number of bug fixes in response to customer feedback. A major update to Gexcon’s flagship computational

We are pleased to announce that Shell FRED 2020 is now live and available for download. Based on 40 years of operator development, Shell FRED 2020 generates fast and reliable predictions with validation credentials unrivaled in the market. Developed in collaboration with

The new release of Shell FRED 2020 offers a completely new way of working with Shell FRED. To support existing users with the transition, we are offering a half-day introductory course for the new Shell FRED interface. This will cover the key improvements to the older interface, which has been in use for many years.  

The new release of Shell FRED 2020 offers a completely new way of working with Shell FRED. To support existing users with the transition, we are offering a half-day introductory course for the new Shell FRED interface. This will cover the key improvements to the older interface, which has been in use for many years.  

This course is an introduction to the theory and applications of Shell FRED 2020. It will cover all the existing consequence modeling scenarios within the software, including source term modelling, pool formation, gas dispersion, jet and pool fires, impinging fires, vessel burst smoke ingress in buildings/temporary refuge, and explosion scenarios in congested and/or confined areas.

The Shell FRED (Fire, Release, Explosion, and Dispersion) tool is a well-validated software tool for the prediction of the hazardous effects of accidental or intentional releases and is supported by over 40 years of physical testing and validation. A paper released in

Gexcon is set to launch a major update to its flagship consequence modelling software later this year to offer users greater flexibility, digitalisation and integration capabilities. FLACS-CFD 20 will replace FLACS 10.9 from this autumn and represents a significant software upgrade, building

Gexcon and Shell are excited to announce that we are working on a new version of Shell FRED for 2020. Shell FRED allows safety professionals to predict the consequences of Fire, Release, Explosion, and Dispersion from accidental and design releases of products

Gexcon and Shell are pleased to announce the release of FRED v7.1.1 FRED (Fire, Release, Explosion, and Dispersion) is Shell’s consequence modelling tool used to predict the consequences of accidental and design releases from process, storage, transport, and distribution operations. A couple…

Gexcon and Shell Global Solutions are pleased to announce the release of FRED v7.1. FRED (Fire, Release, Explosion, and Dispersion) is Shell’s consequence modelling tool used to predict the consequences of accidental and design releases from process, storage, transport, and distribution operations. This…

This year’s FLACS User Group Meeting will be held in Bergen Norway, May 22-23, 2018. Join other FLACS users for two days of learning and discussions. The FLACS User Group (FLUG) Meeting is a top-level meeting in the field of modelling dispersion,…