scholarly journals Tank Wall Thermal Stress Analysis and Risk Prevention and Control of Crude Oil Storage Tank

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 541-549
Author(s):  
Xuejian Zhao

If the crude oil in storage tank is directly heated without considering its temperature distribution, several problems will occur, namely, the thermal expansion of crude oil, and the uneven thickness of the condensate layer, bringing difficulty to the safe management of crude oil storage and transport. However, few scholars have analyzed the temperature field distribution of crude oil storage tank (COST) under heating, or the internal force of COST under static force. Thus, this paper probes into the thermal stress of tank wall, and the risk prevention and control of COST. Firstly, the heat transfer properties of COST were analyzed, an energy balance model was constructed for COST, and several variables were selected to evaluate the heat transfer effect of the tank under different heating modes, including thermal design power, temperature rise rate, and heat energy utilization rate. Next, the cross-section of COST wall was selected for thermal stress analysis. Based on the extremes of circumferential and vertical thermal stresses, the weak parts of COST susceptible to risks like leakage were determined, and several measures and suggestions were presented for reducing the risks of crude oil storage and transport.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamalesh Gupta ◽  
Arun Kumar Jana ◽  
Mousumi Chakraborty ◽  
Parimal A. Parikh

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
pp. 103192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuang Wu ◽  
Lei Hou ◽  
Shouzhi Wu ◽  
Xingguang Wu ◽  
Fangyuan Liu

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J Skone

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 1384-1391
Author(s):  
Tudora Cristescu ◽  
Monica Emanuela Stoica ◽  
Silvian Suditu

The study aims to analyze the main factors that influence the transfer of heat in the case of crude oil storage. A model based on the computing relations taken from specific publications was developed. The case studies were conducted on the basis of experimental research on several oil storage tanks, located in an oil transit station in Romania. The following two cases were analyzed, i.e., when the crude oil is heated and stagnates in the storage tank, and when it only stagnates, respectively. The analysis and application of the developed standard model facilitated the establishing of the factors that influence heat transfer. The influence of the geographic position and meteorological factors was also analyzed, which led to the formulation of conclusions with respect to the heat loss that occurs through the walls of the tanks.


2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 890-894
Author(s):  
Xiao Dong Song ◽  
Long Zhe Jin

In order to realize functions of automatic monitoring, alarming and extinguishment on fire in crude oil storage tank, the paper came up with a fire detection model with multisensor, including selective module with fire feature combination, supervised training module and fire detection module. By regarding PNN as a classifier to carry out tests on effectiveness of the model, the conclusions that the model can reduce the influence of fire parameters’ fluctuation on detection results was drew. Moreover, an excellent fault-tolerant ability was possessed at the same time. Through some confirmatory experiments, The phenomenon was reached that two kinds of parameters in adoptive four parameters have no normal fire signal, but the model still can greatly distinguish from correct fire state.


Author(s):  
Jian Shuai ◽  
Kejiang Han

As an important production facility, storage tank plays a more and more important role in the storage and transportation of crude oil and chemical product. The remaining life prediction of storage tank is to forecast the thinning trend of plate thickness, and forecast remaining life on the premise that remaining strength of storage tank meets the tank operation and safety requirements. Maximum corrosion depths of tank bottom plate obey the maximum extreme value distribution. Based on maximum extreme value distribution and statistics of corrosion data, the calculation formula of the remaining life prediction for large-scale crude oil storage tank was obtained by formula derivation. Compared with API STD 653 and EEMUA 159, the inspection interval specified by China standard SY/T 5921 is relatively conservative. The remaining life of a certain crude oil storage tank (tank A) in china is determined by the remaining life of tank bottom plate. The remaining life of tank A at the reliability of 0.99, 0.999 and 0.9999 are 25 years, 20 years and 17 years, respectively. For the acceptable failure probability of 1×10−4, the inspection interval of tank A can be extended from required 5–7 years specified by China standard SY/T 5921 to 17 years. The remaining life of crude oil storage tank predicted by the method proposed in this paper can be used as an important reference in the determination of inspection interval and tank’s maintenance.


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