Fault Tree Analysis for oil tank fire and explosion

Author

Limin, Wang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Fire Fighting Command Acad., Chinese people´´s Armed Force Acad., Langfang, China

fYear

2010

fDate

8-10 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

488

Lastpage

491

Abstract

Fault tree analysis is a widely used method for reliability evaluation and risk assessment. This paper analyzes the reasons of oil tank fire and explosion by applying Fault Tree Analysis. It establishes a fault tree including a top event and 25 basic events. The top event is oil tank fire and explosion. Through analysis, 7 minimum path sets are obtained and corresponding importance degrees are calculated, the main reasons of oil tank fire and explosion and corresponding improvement measures are discussed qualitatively. The results will provide a great of theoretical guidance of oil tank safety management and prevent fire and explosion of oil tank.

Keywords

accident prevention; explosions; fault trees; fires; fuel storage; reliability; risk analysis; tanks (containers); explosion prevention; fault tree analysis; fire prevention; oil tank explosion; oil tank fire; reliability evaluation; risk assessment; safety management; Corrosion; Explosions; Fires; Lead; Lightning; Logic gates; Reliability theory; fault tree analysis method; fire and explosion; oil tank; risk analysis; safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emergency Management and Management Sciences (ICEMMS), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6064-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMMS.2010.5563394

Filename

5563394