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Transportation of Dangerous Goods Projects

Transportation Development Centre

TDC’s R&D program on the transportation of dangerous goods supports the goals of Transport Canada’s Transport Dangerous Goods Directorate. Research focusses on risk management, emergency response, the safety of containment systems and pressure relief valves, and tank design and inspection.

Policy Support

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

  • Sustainable transportation technologies – forecast and framework for action

Regulation and Standards

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

  • Evaluation of pressure relief valve (PRV) performance – Phase 2
  • Evaluation of pressure relief valve (PRV) performance – Phase 3, field tests
  • Evaluation of risk associated with stationary dangerous goods railway cars
  • Performance standards for plastic drums
  • Performance standards for steel drums

Tank Inspection

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

  • Assessment of tank car thermal protection defects
  • Burner tests on defective thermal protection systems
  • Criteria for assessment of tank-car insulation defects by thermal analysis
  • Field detection of defects in tank-car insulation
  • Full-scale fire tests of thermally protected 112J-type rail tank cars
  • Revised tank car thermal model

Emergency Response

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

  • Boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion (BLEVE) study

Operating Environment

The reports below have been archived and can be found at http://search-recherche.tc.gc.ca/archive/search.aspx

  • Effects of low temperatures on tank-cars' impact resistance
  • Tank car operating environment
  • Tank car yard impact testing and dynamic model validation
  • Tank container impact test
  • Yard impact forces on 286 000 lb tank cars
Date modified:
2012-05-03