Fire Testing of Total Containment Pressure Vessels
- 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.
Autor*innen: | A. M. Birk |
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Koautor*innen: | Frank Otremba, F. Gonzales, Jörg-Peter Borch, I. Bradley, L. Bisby, A. Prabhakaran |
Dokumenttyp: | Vortrag |
Veröffentlichungsform: | Präsentation |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2016 |
DDC-Klassifikation: | Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / Ingenieurwissenschaften / Ingenieurbau |
Freie Schlagwörter: | Fire testing; Hazmat tanks; Integrity |
Veranstaltung: | Loss of prevention |
Veranstaltungsort: | Freiburg, Germany |
Beginndatum der Veranstaltung: | 06.06.2016 |
Enddatum der Veranstaltung: | 08.06.2016 |
Verfügbarkeit des Dokuments: | Datei im Netzwerk der BAM verfügbar ("Closed Access") |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 25.10.2016 |
Referierte Publikation: | Nein |
Eingeladener Vortrag: | Nein |