A novel method to design water spray cooling system to protect floating roof atmospheric storage tanks against fires

  • سال انتشار: 1394
  • محل انتشار: فصلنامه بهداشت، ایمنی و محیط زیست، دوره: 2، شماره: 1
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_IJHSE-2-1_001
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 816
دانلود فایل این مقاله

نویسندگان

Iraj Alimohammadi

Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Science, Occupational Health Research Center

Farshad Nourai

Aftab Imen Parto Consulting Engineers Ltd

Mohammad Javad Daryalaal

Subsidiary HSE Department at National Iranian Oil Company

Amir Masood Ghasemi

Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Science

چکیده

Hydrocarbon bulk storage tank fires are not very common, but their protection is essential due to severe consequences of such fires. Water spray cooling system is one of the most effective ways to reduce damages to a tank from a fire. Many codes and standards set requirements and recommendations to maximize the efficiency of water spray cooling systems, but these are widely different and still various interpretations and methods are employed to design such systems. This article provides a brief introduction to some possible design methods of cooling systems for protection of storage tanks against external non-contacting fires and introduces a new method namely “Linear Density Method” and compares the results from this method to the “Average Method” which is currently in common practice. The average Method determines the flow rate for each spray nozzle by dividing the total water demand by the number of spray nozzles while the Linear Density Method determines the nozzle flow rate based on the actual flow over the surface to be protected. The configuration of the system includes a one million barrel crude oil floating roof tank to be protected and which is placed one half tank diameter from a similar adjacent tank with a full surface fire. Thermal radiation and hydraulics are modeled using DNV PHAST Version 6.53 and Sunrise PIPENET Version 1.5.0.2722 software respectively. Spray nozzles used in design are manufactured by Angus Fire and PNR Nozzles companies. Schedule 40 carbon steel pipe is used for piping. The results show that the cooling system using the Linear Density Method consumes 3.55% more water than the design using the average method assuming a uniform application rate of 4.1 liters per minute. Despite higher water consumption the design based on Linear Density Method alleviates the problems associated with the Average Method and provides better protection

کلیدواژه ها

Storage Tank, Cooling System, FireProtection, Spray System, Spray System Design, Tank Fire

مقالات مرتبط جدید

اطلاعات بیشتر در مورد COI

COI مخفف عبارت CIVILICA Object Identifier به معنی شناسه سیویلیکا برای اسناد است. COI کدی است که مطابق محل انتشار، به مقالات کنفرانسها و ژورنالهای داخل کشور به هنگام نمایه سازی بر روی پایگاه استنادی سیویلیکا اختصاص می یابد.

کد COI به مفهوم کد ملی اسناد نمایه شده در سیویلیکا است و کدی یکتا و ثابت است و به همین دلیل همواره قابلیت استناد و پیگیری دارد.