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Overflow + Ignition = Tank Farm Fire! (Part 1) — Process Safety Beacon, September 2009
Overflow + Ignition = Tank Farm Fire! (Part 1) — Process Safety Beacon, September 2009
- CCPS
- Digest
- Process Safety Beacon September 2009
- Hot Work and FireHydrocarbon ReleaseProcess Safety
- ExplosionFireLoss of containmentProcess safety
- Fluid transfer
- Storage tanks
- Alarm managementOperating and work procedures
- Downstream and process industries
Summary
This bulletin describes a flammable-liquid storage tank overflow after both its level gauge and high-level alarm failed. An explosion and spreading fire followed, with a responding truck believed to provide ignition. It emphasises close transfer monitoring, capacity checks, procedural completion and prompt reporting and repair of failed instruments.
Classifications: Explosion; explosive atmospheres.
Classifications: Fire; fire safety.
Classifications: Loss of containment; containment loss.
Classifications: Process safety; major accident hazards.
Classifications: Fluid transfer; fluid loading; fluid offloading.
Classifications: Storage tanks; atmospheric tanks.
Classifications: Alarm management.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Downstream and process industries; refining; petrochemicals.
Summary
First of two Beacons on a tank farm fire that resulted from a storage tank overflow and subsequent ignition.
Process Safety Beacon September 2009. Themes: hot work and fire, hydrocarbon release, process safety.