Design of Safe Tank

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

International Journal of Chemical, Nuclear, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering Vol:8, No:2, 2014

Designing an Optimal Safe Layout for a Fuel Storage

Tanks Farm: Case Study of Jaipur Oil Depot

Moosa Haji Abbasi, Emad Benhelal, Arshad Ahmad

International Science Index Vol:8, No:2, 2014 waset.org/Publication/9998054

Abstract—Storage tank farms are essential industrial facilities to

accumulate oil, petrochemicals and gaseous products. Since tank

farms contain huge mass of fuel and hazardous materials, they are

always targets of serious accidents such as fire, explosion, spill and

toxic release which may cause severe impacts on human health,

environmental and properties.

Although having a safe layout is not able to prevent initiating

accidents, however it effectively controls and reduces the adverse

impact of such accidents.

The aim of this paper is to determine the optimal layout for a

storage tank contains different type of hydrocarbon fuels. A

quantitative risk assessment is carried out on a selected tank farm in

Jaipur, India, with particular attention given to both the consequence

modeling and the overall risk assessment using PHAST Software.

Various designs of tank layouts are examined taking into

consideration several issues of plant operations and maintenance. In

all stages of the work, standard guidelines specified by the industry

are considered and recommendations are substantiated with

simulation results and risk quantification.

Keywords—Tank

assessment, PHAST.

farm,

safe

distance,

safe

layout,

risk

I. INTRODUCTION

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AFETY is number one priority in the chemical industry.

Its importance is globally acknowledged specially due to

recent significant chemical accidents, increases in public

awareness and skyrocketing liability and accident costs.

Manufacture, handling and the use of dangerous substances

and management of the pressurized systems have the potential

to present major hazards not...