The effect of safety gap on dispersion of gas releases is investigated.
A cylindrical FLNG platform is established and used for CFD analysis.
The safety gap study on the cylindrical FLNG platform is conducted and compared to the ship-shaped FLNG.
The safety gap is effective in reducing the gas cloud size between adjacent modules in both FLNG configurations.
However, the safety gap in the cylindrical FLNG increases the gas cloud size in far field against the leakage point.