This paper reviews 242 accidents of storage tanks that occurred in industrial facilities over the last 40 years. Fishbone Diagram is applied to analyze the causes that lead to accidents. Corrective actions are also provided to help operating engineers handling similar situations in the future. The results show that 74% of accidents occurred in petroleum refineries, oil terminals or storage. Fire and explosion account for 85% of the accidents. There were 80 accidents (33%) caused by lightning and 72 (30%) caused by human errors including poor operations and maintenance. Other causes were equipment failure, sabotage, crack and rupture, leak and line rupture, static electricity, open flames etc. Most of those accidents would have been avoided if good engineering have been practiced.


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    Title :

    A study of storage tank accidents


    Additional title:

    Eine Studie über Unfälle mit Vorratstanks


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2006


    Size :

    9 Seiten, 2 Bilder, 7 Tabellen, 40 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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