Investigate the Causes of Fires and Explosions at External Floating Roof Tanks: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Moshashaei, Parisa; Alizadeh, Seyed Shamseddin; Khazini, Leila; Asghari‐Jafarabadi, Mohammad

doi:10.1007/s11668-017-0333-0

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“…As a part of major accidents, rim seal fire is the most common type of fire in a tank with floating roof. This occurs when the sealing system is damaged, loses its integrity and allows the leakage of vapors that can be ignited [5]. These vapors can be ignited by sparks from impact between bumper bars and the tank wall, two metallic parts.…”

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Earthquake Natech Risk: Numerical Analysis of Floating Roof and Sealing System in Cylindrical Storage Tanks

Salimbeni,

De Angelis,

Ciucci

2023

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COM

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Earthquake is one of the natural event that are part of NaTech events (Natural Hazard Triggering Technological Disasters). Cylindrical liquid storage tanks with floating roof are common equipment in industrial plants, and they are vulnerable to earthquakes. In fact, seismic damage to tanks with floating roof can lead to major accidents involving hazardous substances, mainly due to convective fluid movement and to the interactions between the tank wall, the fluid, the floating roof, the sealing system, and the bumper bars. In rim seal fires, which occur when the sealing system is damaged and an impact occurs between the bumper bars and the tank wall, the horizontal dynamics of the floating roof is involved. The horizontal dynamics depends mainly on the mechanical characteristics of the sealing system and the type of impact. The objective is to predict the horizontal vibration response of the floating roof of a tank subjected to seismic excitation, taking into account different boundary conditions. For this purpose, a simplified and reduced model is developed assuming a decoupling hypothesis between the horizontal and the vertical motion of the roof. Different types of sealing systems (i.e., different mechanical properties) are investigated, considering the possibility of impact between the bumper bars and the tank wall. This impact is usually rigid. Later, as a proposal for the prevention of major accidents, deformable bumpers are introduced to reduce the maximum contact force and avoid the impact between two metallic parts.

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Earthquake Natech Risk: Numerical Analysis of Floating Roof and Sealing System in Cylindrical Storage Tanks

Salimbeni,

De Angelis,

Ciucci

2023

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COM

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“…The general principle in eliminating fires in tank farms and on the railway is to protect the equipment and walls of neighboring tanks from thermal emission [16,17]. Existing methods of protecting tanks from thermal emission are analyzed in [18].…”

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Technical Implementation of the Concept of Using Gel-Forming Systems to Protect Tanks with Oil Products from Thermal Effects of a Fire

Savchenko,

Basmanov,

Hovalenkov

2023

AMM

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The work theoretically substantiated and practically implemented the technical solution for supplying the components of gel-forming system (GFS). This allows implementing the concept of using gels to protect tanks with oil products from thermal emission. The response time in case of fire at the unloading-loading racks is determined. Criteria for supplying GFS components for cooling the walls of railway tanks have been developed. The ejection method for supplying GFS components is defined as promising. A device that allows supplying GFS components without structural changes in standard firefighting equipment has been developed and manufactured.

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“…The figure 1 shows the statistics of fires in tanks with oil and oil products in Russia for 2020 [1][2].…”

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Methods for pumping oil from burning tanks

Pelekh

Sarbaeva

Balabanov

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Investigate the Causes of Fires and Explosions at External Floating Roof Tanks: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Cited by 19 publications

References 15 publications

Earthquake Natech Risk: Numerical Analysis of Floating Roof and Sealing System in Cylindrical Storage Tanks

Earthquake Natech Risk: Numerical Analysis of Floating Roof and Sealing System in Cylindrical Storage Tanks

Technical Implementation of the Concept of Using Gel-Forming Systems to Protect Tanks with Oil Products from Thermal Effects of a Fire

Methods for pumping oil from burning tanks

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