Environmental aspects of petroleum storage in above ground tank

Amgad Fathey Fayek Tadros,S Semerikov,P Nechypurenko,A Striuk,S Chukharev,V Solovieva,T Vakaliuk,O Bondarenko,S Sakhno,H Danylchuk,V Osadchyi

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202016601006

Abstract

Oil pollution is a severing global environmental problem causing a number of adverse negative impacts on human health air ecosystem and eventually the natural income that is why soil, water, air pollution with petroleum hydrocarbons have become the focus of increasing public and research concern petroleum hydrocarbon contaminants in the air environment are caused by human activities when harmful or excessive quantities of substances are introduced into Earth’s atmosphere. Sources of air pollution include gases such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, methane, the aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH’s) fractions of petroleum are readily evolved to air during refinery and choosing the wrong storage tanks also leak to the soil change the chemical composition of spilled toxicity and biological impacts of the oil and add great difficulties to the identification of the residual spilled oil in the impacted environment and economic cost of air pollution in illness, health care costs, lost productivity so coordination between humans to conserves natural resources for future generation.

Highlights

Nowadays, energy is recognized as one of the main factors to the formation and development of industrial communities
To achieve suitable levels of production, the use of improved technologies should be considered via introducing new facilities that treat the crude oil sulphur and nitrogen to be stored in tanks with minimal pollution to the surrounding environment, another way to save oil products and prevent the evaporation loss or leakage by construction of storage tanks according to standard codes and preferred to be stored in floating roof tanks
Evaporation of hydrocarbons and their products from on the above ground storage tanks has been of special concern in the recent years

Summary

Introduction

Energy is recognized as one of the main factors to the formation and development of industrial communities. Evaporation rate is considered from three tanks with number one, five and six, respectively containing diesel gas oil, gasoline and kerosene. The present estimations show annual evaporations of about 8.7, 33.3 and 2 tons of Gas oil, Gasoline and Kerosene from Arabian oil pipelines storage tanks respectively. Such evaporation can have adverse effect on the air quality of surrounding areas. In view of economical aspects such losses Implementation of simple energy savings and as color of tanks, inner condition of shell and type of primary and secondary seals can reduce evaporation Gas oil, Gasoline and Kerosene from 8.7, 33.3 & 2 ton/yr to 6.9, 9.1 & 0.4 ton/yr respectively. It is recommended to use white color throughout the outer surface of storage tanks

Environmental management of petroleum storage tank systems

Environmental impacts of petroleum storage in above ground tank

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Results and discussion