Analysis of the Earliest Fire Mode in Petroleum Storage Tanks with Experiments

Most petroleum products are stored in storage tanks. The safety of the petroleum storage depot is a problem that supervisors at all levels are concerned. Therefore, the study on the fire problem of storage tank is a key to cracking this hard nut. This paper aims at the safety research of the oil tank that is the common equipment in the petroleum storage depot. Experiment research and analysis are made in the simulative equipment. And based on this research and analysis, some beneficial conclusions the are valuable to the research of the safety of the petroleum storage depot and the fire protection have been obtained. The thickness of oil gas is the decisive factor in the fire mode in petroleum storage. The possibility of the second burning and explosion is little without oxygen. It is very dangerous if the oil is burn in open oil tanks and we must take actions to extinguish the fire.