TY - JOUR A1 - Bradley, Ian A1 - Scarponi, G. E. A1 - Otremba, Frank A1 - Birk, A. M. T1 - An overview of test standards and regulations relevant to the fire testing of pressure vessels JF - Process safety and environmental protection N2 - Fire exposure of storage and transportation vessels of hazardous materials (including pressure liquefied gases) can result in BLEVEs and other high-consequence incidents with large societal and economic impacts. To reduce risk most countries have numerous regulations, codes of practice and guidance notes covering the design, operation and maintenance of vessels and thermal protection systems. Yet despite such regulations there remains no internationally accepted fire test procedure for pressure vessel and accompanying thermal protection systems that is capable of meeting a range of regulatory requirements. This paper considers some of the regulations in place in the western world and considers the origin of these based on large and medium-scale testing conducted to date. It examines conditions found in these tests to propose a set of recommendations on which to base a standard method of test. These recommendations are proposed as being representative of a credible large pool fire scenario that may occur. KW - LPG KW - Pressure vessel KW - Test KW - BLEVE KW - Fire PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2020.07.047 SN - 0957-5820 VL - 145 SP - 150 EP - 156 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-51139 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -