A hazards assessment methodology for large liquid hydrocarbon fuel tanks

Argyropoulos, Christos D.; Christolis, M.N.; Nivolianitou, Zoe; Markatos, N.C.

doi:10.1016/j.jlp.2011.12.003

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“…Crude oil presents an additional risk of boilover . For example, a major boilover accident of crude oil happened in Milford Haven, UK, on 30 August 1983 .…”

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Land‐use planning risk estimates for a chemical industrial park in China – A longitudinal study

Zong-zhi

Hedlund

et al. 2018

Process Safety Progress

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A chemical industrial park (CIP) can centralize the management of companies and facilitate mutual communication between different businesses. Due to these advantages, an increasing number of chemical companies are forced into CIP, especially in developing countries such as China. Thus, the land-use planning of CIP associated with safety becomes an important issue. To illustrate the importance of the continuous risk supervision and give more experiences to other similar changing CIP, we apply a simplified quantitative risk assessment procedure to estimate the risk to a Chinese chemical industrial park (19 3 10 km 2 ) near a rather densely populated off-site region for the years 2014 and 2017. Estimated levels of individual risk and societal risk are compared with Chinese risk acceptance criteria for land-use planning. Offsite risk levels have increased significantly from 2014 to 2017. While off-site risk levels are still low and within the acceptable region, the study concludes that the authorities should review carefully and monitor the risk level in case of future development activities around and within the chemical industrial park, e.g. preserving a buffer zone should be considered. For future chemical park design, it is highly recommended to proactively include QRA analysis especially to deal with risk in an efficient way.

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“…Crude oil presents an additional risk of boilover . For example, a major boilover accident of crude oil happened in Milford Haven, UK, on 30 August 1983 .…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Land‐use planning risk estimates for a chemical industrial park in China – A longitudinal study

Zong-zhi

Hedlund

et al. 2018

Process Safety Progress

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“…Equipping TB with a system of continuous monitoring of the gas-air environment using sensors installed in the area around the tank and leak detection wells at TB facilities will result in ensuring safe working conditions as well as preventing fires and explosions. [18,19].…”

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Improving safety of oil storage tanks operation

Zemlerub¹,

Kharasov²,

Avdeev³

2019

Instrumentation Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications

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Tank batteries for storage of crude oil and refined products are hazardous industrial facilities. Almost half of the accidents (including fires) occurs at the tank batteries at oil and gas industry. The most effective way to improve safety of facilities operation is to introduce additional functions to the existing automated control systems of technological processes. In this article it is proposed to add to automated control systems of technological processes of tank batteries two new subsystems. First one is the subsystem of bottom water drainage from an oil tank by installing on a siphon crane an analyzer of oil concentration in water. The other one is the subsystem of remote leak detection with receiving information from the gas monitoring sensors installed in the leak detection wells and in the area around the tank. Implementation of this additional subsystems to automated control systems of technological processes will allow to receive timely and reliable information about the status of equipment, to increase the efficiency of control and to ensure trouble-free operation which will significantly enhance the safety and efficiency of tank batteries for storage of crude oil and refined products.

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“…e Buncefield Oil Storage Depot explosion was the most serious hazardous accident in European industry. In 2009, another severe explosion accident occurred at the Caribbean Petroleum Refining and Oil depot in Puerto Rico where the serial explosions damaged 18 oil storage tanks [4]. According to the statistics of oil storage tanks accidents by Chang and Lin, explosions occurred 61 times in total out of 242 accidents from 1960 to 2003 [5].…”

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Behaviors of Thin‐Walled Cylindrical Shell Storage Tank under Blast Impacts

Wang

Chen

et al. 2019

Shock and Vibration

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Large steel storage tanks designed with long-span structures, employed for storing oil and fuel, have been widely used in many countries over the past twenty years. Most of these tanks are thin-walled cylindrical shells. Owing to the high risk of gas explosions and the resulting deaths, injuries, and economic losses, more thorough damage analyses of these large structures should be conducted. This study examines the structural response of a simplified steel storage tank under a blast impact, as calculated by the LS-DYNA software package. The numerical results are then compared with a scale-model experiment. On that basis, the simplified storage tank prototype, which has a 15 × 104 m3 capacity, is analyzed using numerical simulation. In this study, we address issues around the variation in structural responses—particularly of the failure mode, resultant displacement, structural energy, and dynamic strain under the impact. In addition, we also discuss the effects of varying the internal liquid level, constraint conditions, and blast intensity.

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A hazards assessment methodology for large liquid hydrocarbon fuel tanks

Cited by 54 publications

References 20 publications

Land‐use planning risk estimates for a chemical industrial park in China – A longitudinal study

Land‐use planning risk estimates for a chemical industrial park in China – A longitudinal study

Improving safety of oil storage tanks operation

Behaviors of Thin‐Walled Cylindrical Shell Storage Tank under Blast Impacts

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