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The Engineering Equipment & Materials Users Association (EEMUA) has announced that the focus of its 2021 annual conference, to be held on 4 February, will be resilience and asset integrity.
It will explore current and future aspects of managing industrial infrastructure, looking at practical issues in engineering work, both technical and business-related. The conference programme will cover…
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Environmental technology firm Tecam has been awarded the contract for a gas emissions treatment project for a hydrocarbon tank storage company in Chile.
Tecam will provide engineering, procurement, installation and maintenance services for a regenerative thermal oxidiser (RTO) to eliminate 99.9% of the tank farm’s gas venting emissions. The company has analysed the customer’s technical…
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Researchers at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, and photonics innovation hub ACTPHAST 4R have developed an optical air sensor to detect volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in industrial settings in real time.
VOCs can be extremely dangerous to health, with some causing long-term respiratory ailments and even death, and are highly explosive. Current detectors use metal oxide electronic…
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Swiss inspection specialist firm ROSEN Group has launched a new online store for the US market for pipeline cleaning pigs and equipment.
The new digital sales platform, which is available 24/7, is designed to provide a simple and fast purchasing service for customers. The company says that the current challenges have shown how important availability and flexibility are.
The ROSEN Pipeline…
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What it takes to implement corrosion prediction of tank bottoms.
IN PART 1, we established a foundation for determining what a corrosion rate is, how care is required in defining a corrosion rate, and how it is used to establish tank internal inspection intervals. In Part 2, we provided the methodology for using survival analysis to properly quantify the useful tank bottom life. Part 3 will look…
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Standing ankle deep in spilled Sauvignon Blanc inspired structural engineer Will Lomax to develop the Onguard system to protect all liquid storage tanks from earthquakes
BETWEEN 2011 and 2016, New Zealand was struck by a series of devasting earthquakes. Will Lomax is a structural engineer who witnessed and experienced the three most severe events first-hand, and who was directly involved in…
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Safety expert Paul Calderwood runs through the aspects to consider when developing an emergency management plan
ONE of the benefits of having worked in emergency management planning for so long, is that I have seen a lot of incidents and read the reports about what happened and how it happened. As a deputy fire chief I responded to many incidents and have seen firsthand how fast things can go…
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Bill Atkinson from Adler and Allan discusses key environmental considerations for fires, and how to rebuild a compliant business once the smoke has cleared
MAJOR accidents such as the 2005 Buncefield oil storage depot fire prove that industrial blazes can swiftly escalate into catastrophic pollution events. As witnessed during the disaster in Hemel Hempstead in the UK – which released a…
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Protecting your tanks from lightning strikes using a retractable grounding reel
THE roof of an external floating roof tank rests directly on the surface of the stored liquid, leaving little vapour space and consequently leading to a much lower risk of rim space fire. Proper lightning protection is critical for fire prevention –the floating roof tank roof and the outer shell must be bonded…
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Lightning strikes are always a risk on a storage tank, but effective bonding between the floating roof and the shell can reduce the risk of sparks
SINCE 2013, at the Iranian Oil Terminal facility located in Kharg Island, more than 12 fire incidents have occurred due to lightning strikes. In 2015, one strike resulted in simultaneous fires in five tanks, and staff noticed that all damaged tanks…
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Hytrans looks at how to choose the right hose, couplings and recovery unit for your needs
INDUSTRIAL firefighting asks for more water and more pressure, and this needs larger hoses and larger pumps. The mobile water supply systems need to be more flexible and more powerful to provide this flow and pressure. However, while flow and pressure are important, they are not the only things that make…
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AP Sensing’s novel solution addresses the need for monitoring storage tanksand pipelines
THE susceptibility of modern-day assets in the oil and gas industry canpose significant challenges. For example, storage tanks are filled with chemicals that are flammable and often explosive, but these tanks can be ten or more years old and geographically located in regions with substantial lightning…
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Tank Storage Magazine talked to Implico CEO Tim Hoffmeister about ongoing structural reorganisations within the oil and gas industry, the need for a standardised supply chain and the upcoming online check-in for trucks at tank farms.
DIGITALISATION is still on everyone’s lips. What is your understanding of the term ‘digitalisation of the tank storage industry’?
Terminal…
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A look at the points raised by Ollie Folayan in Tank Storage Magazine’s October webinar
DIVERSITY and inclusion are buzzwords that seem to be everywhere at the moment. But in a world where differences, at least by many people, are now being celebrated, is the tank storage sector doing enough to encourage people of colour, or women, or people with disabilities, or members of the LGBTQ+…
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Spill control manufacturer HalenHardy charts the changes and developments that ultimately led to its new recycled sorbent
ANCIENT Greek and Roman texts and artwork document the use of terracotta, metal and wooden containers to transport and store liquids – and with the storage of liquids came the potential for anything holding those liquids to leak and spill. The same ancient texts and…
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How computational fluid dynamics helped in the development of innovative jet
mixers for tanks
NOT MANY people understand that the oil used to fry chips meets many challenges on its route from the field to the frying pan. Some of them arise during the liquid bulk storage phase, such as layering of the oil and building of sediments in the shore tank due to inefficient mixing. This, in turn,…
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Navigator Terminals turned to drones for safe, reliable tank inspections
MORE than ever before, drones are becoming invaluable tools in a variety of sectors – including the tank storage world. With their ability to increase efficiency and improve safety, drones have become important tools for inspection, enhancing condition monitoring.
Until recent years drones were only able to…
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New-generation perimeter intrusion detection sensors combined with video analytics and intelligent lighting can dramatically enhance detection, deterrence and response capabilities while meeting budgetary constraints and operational realities
THE PHYSICAL security of storage facilities for oil, natural gas, and refined products is critical for public safety. A deliberate attack on a facility…
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Meet the Netherlands’ remote controlled fire-fighting robot: the Inferno Beater
HOLLAND Holland Special Pumps (HSP) is the only firefighting robot manufacturer in the Netherlands. Last year the company launched the Inferno Beater, a remotely-operated fire extinguisher robot, which can be used in tank farms, as well as other applications such as houses, industrial buildings and parking…
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A guide to choosing the most suitable foam for your fire protection needs
IN 1902 Russian chemist and engineer Aleksander Loran developed and patented the first fire suppression foam for extinguishing flammable liquid fires, by physically mixing two powders and water. Many innovations to fire-fighting foam have since been developed, including Aerofoam (Percy Lavon Julian, 1942), high-expansion…
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