Truck and Track Winter 21/22 www.truckandtrack.com 70 DANGEROUS GOODS ■ Periodic and systematic inspection of pressure vessels ■ Pressure relief valves/Reseating of valves once SWP* restored ■ Bursting Discs to operate [if SWP* of non-flammable containment vessel is exceeded significantly] ■ Thermal barriers ■ Water spray cooling systems *SWP = Safe Working Pressure *SWT = Safe Working Temperature *SOP = Standard Operating Procedure This article is written in good faith and not comprehensive, or site/vehicle specific; so you should check with your Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor [and] Engineering-Safety Teams to ensure you can avoid the risks associated with a BLEVE. Selected examples of BLEVE incidents [worth putting into a search engine] to understand the significance of this type of Dangerous Goods Incident – June 1959: Meldrim Trestle Disaster, Georgia USA. August 1959: 100,000 litre gasoline tank rupture, Kansas, USA. March 1960: Whisky bond fire, Glasgow, Scotland. January 1966: LPG storage tank rupture, Feyzin, France. June 1970: Derailed propane railcar explosion, Illinois USA. July 1973: Explosion of propane tanker, Kingman, Arizona. January 1978: LN2 [liquid nitrogen] tank rupture, West Virginia, USA. February 1978: LPG rail tank-car derailment/explosion, Tennessee, USA. July 1978: Liquefied propylene tanker explosion [Los Alfaques], Alcanar, Spain. November 1984: Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank farm, Mexico City, Mexico. December 1988: Propane Tanker rupture, Memphis, USA. April 1990: LPG fuel tanker & Tank Farm explosion, Sydney, Australia. April 1998: Propane Tank Explosion, Iowa, USA. May 1999: Propane tanker explosion, Vourla, Greece. August 2008: propane storage facility explosion, Ontario, Canada. June 2009: LPG tanks on train derailment, Viareggio, Italy. March 2015: MRI machine, liquid helium, BLEVE, New Jersey, USA. April 2017: Tank Farm and Pipeline BLEVE, St Louis, Missouri. August 2018: LPG tanker explosion, Bologna, Italy. March 2019: BLEVE [no further info available], Yancheng, Jiangsu, China. For assistance in managing the logistics of all your bulk, palletised and parcel dangerous goods, including advice on warehousing Dangerous Goods, please feel free to contact the following professionals – Technical Ali S Karim BSc FRSC CChem CSci Chemistry Teacher/Chemicals & Logistics Consultant Tel: 07812 584 249 email: akarim1462@aol.com Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/ali-karim-37756311 Logistics throughout Scotland Gordon McLellan or John McLellan of Keedwell Scotland email: gordon@keedwellscotland.co.uk OR john@keedwellscotland.co.uk Tel: 0141 771 9911 www.keedwellscotland.co.uk Logistics outside of Scotland and into Mainland Europe John Donovan of JJX Logistics email: john@jjxlogistics.co.uk Tel: 01384 221 642 www.jjxlogistics.co.uk OR HazchemNetwork Director Gary Cane [England, Wales & Ireland] email: gary@hazmail.co.uk Tel: 07909 685 628 www.hazchemnetwork.co.uk and www.hers-info.co.uk Regulatory Compliance, Documentation and Labelling Richard Shreeve of Labeline Tel: 07825 748962 email: compliance@labeline.com www.labeline.com Training Services The Fire Service College Tel: 01608 650 831 www.fireservicecollege.ac.uk/training/courses/ Contact: www.fireservicecollege.ac.uk/contact-us/ Bob Carter of Cargo Training International Ltd Tel: 01932 769682 Fax: 01932 771475 email: sales@cargotraining.com Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser [DGSA] Services John Newsome of Len Hall Chemical Consultants Ltd Tel: 01422 843202 Mob: 07503 833382 email: john@lenhallcc.co.uk www.lenhallcc.co.uk © 2021 A S Karim Gas training understanding a BLEVE NCEC Control Room, Harwell TRUCK & TRAILER SOLUTIONS WELCOME TO ALLPORTS GROUP allportsgroup.co.uk
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