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Models have been applied to stages of two phase releases following the failure of pressurised vessels.The initial expansion stage has been modelled using an experimental apparatus involving the measurement of pressure histories and of Er eon-T l aerosol droplet sizes and velocities.The experimental data combined with a thermodynamic analysis has allowed estimations of the time dependent processes.The analytical description of the critical pressure decrease on the opening of the vessel is presented.The later evolution stage has been mathematically modelled by assuming that the two phases have separate velocities. The cloud motion characteristics have been shown to depend upon the degree of hydrodynamic interactions between the particles via the gaseous phase.For small particles> fractional volumes, this interaction is small and each particle behaves as a single particle corresponding to a "fi 1 t r a t i on" regime.

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