TY - CONF A1 - Birk, A. M. A1 - Otremba, Frank A1 - Gonzales, F. A1 - Borch, Jörg-Peter A1 - Bradley, I. A1 - Bisby, L. A1 - Prabhakaran, A. T1 - Fire Testing of Total Containment Pressure Vessels N2 - In North America certain hazardous materials are transported in rail tank cars that must be able to survive an engulfing liquid hydrocarbon pool fire for 100 minutes without rupture. To meet this requirement these tanks are normally equipped with pressure relief valves (PRV) and some form of thermal insulation or thermal protection (TP). These tanks sometimes have non-accident releases (NAR) due to unwanted activation of, or leakage from the pressure relief valves (PRV). These NARs are a nuisance for Industry and for this reason, the industry now wants to remove the PRVs from certain tanks. This is known as total containment and is common practice in Europe. However, Europe does not have a 100 minute fire survival requirement. This paper is about a series of fire tests of 1/3 rd linear scale US DOT 111 Tanks cars. The 2.4 m3 vessels were subjected to fully engulfing fires generated by liquid propane fueled burners. T2 - Loss of prevention CY - Freiburg, Germany DA - 06.06.2016 KW - Hazmat tanks KW - Fire testing KW - Integrity PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37915 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -