TY - JOUR A1 - Mishra, Kirti Bhushan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Krebs, Holger T1 - Lessons learned from recent fuel storage fires JF - Fuel processing technology N2 - Industrial fire and explosion hazards due to accidents in fuel storage units have gained a considerable attention in recent years. Both, the regulatory bodies and scientific communities are heavily concerned about the proper safety measures to avoid such calamities in the future. This paper aims to bring some essentials related to the hazards that arose from recent fuel storage fire accidents occurring in Buncefield, UK (2005), Puerto Rico, USA (2009) and Sitapura, India (2009). The potential similarities behind occurrence of these accidents are studied. The applicability of various methods (models) and also computer simulations to estimate the safety distances according to the international standards for both explosion and fire hazard are verified. The overpressures caused by the Vapor Cloud Explosions (VCE) and radiation fluxes emitted by the fires are considered for respective explosion and fire hazard estimations. The prime focus is placed on the regulations laid down by the National Fire Protection Agency of the United States and the European Norms. KW - Industrial fires KW - Storage units KW - Safety measures KW - Explosion KW - Overpressure KW - CFD simulation PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuproc.2012.08.003 SN - 0016-2361 SN - 0378-3820 SN - 1873-7153 VL - 107 SP - 166 EP - 172 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-27598 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -