A plant is considering installing a butane storage sphere to be located (100 mathrm{~m}) from the control

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A plant is considering installing a butane storage sphere to be located \(100 \mathrm{~m}\) from the control room building. You are asked to review the consequences of a vapor cloud explosion involving all of the sphere's inventory of butane. The control room building is designed only for a \(3 \mathrm{psi}(20.7 \mathrm{kPa})\) overpressure. What is the maximum quantity of butane (in \(\mathrm{kg}\) ) that can be stored without exceeding the 3 psi pressure specification?

Data for butane: LHV of \(-2657.5 \mathrm{~kJ} / \mathrm{mol}\) (from Appendix B)

Data From Appendix B:

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