Lightning Protection of Floating Roof Tanks
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Prior to export, processed crude oil is stored in Floating Roof Tanks (FRT) to further allow any
trapped gas within the crude oil to escape, as this stabilises the crude oil. In the oil and gas industry, FRT’s are
vital in the processing of crude oil to the acceptable export specification.
In the tropics and other lightning prone regions, lightning induced floating roof tank fire constitutes a major
threat to crude oil production. Among others, a single lightning incident could result in the loss of life, product
and production time, avoidable incident review time, damaged equipment, wasted repair cost, bad publicity and
loss of income.
This paper therefore, is aimed at providing an effective solution to the menace of lightning induced tank fire by
focussing on the starting process of the lightning induced fire and proposing alternative concepts for breaking
the fire triangle before fire ensues
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Q Science (General), QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science