Abstract
AbstractThis article updates earlier publications of an ongoing research project on worldwide fire incidents that occurred in tank farms, which store products ranging from low flashpoint materials to crude and heavier hydrocarbons. The incidents and information in the database came from almost 300 sources, including technical reports and news releases. This research supports tank farm hazard identification/risk assessment and the reliability analysis of fire water protection systems (FWS). The research provides valuable insights such as the frequency of tank farm fires, the frequency of boilovers, the frequency of injuries/fatalities, the probability of failure of the FWSs, and the time to extinguish (TtEx) the fires. When the database provides sufficient information, these numbers appear as a function of the stored product. The data also allows plotting TtEx as a function of time for over a century. Additionally, this article illustrates the results of a confidence level analysis of the risk assessment of a distribution terminal that handles low and high‐flashpoint products.
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