| Document ID (ISN) | 19740 |
| CIS number |
72-2696 |
| Year |
1971 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Page R.C., Ward Gardner A. |
| Title |
Petroleum tankship safety. |
| Bibliographic information |
George Philip and Son Limited, 12-14 Long Acre, London W.C.2, United Kingdom, Oct. 1971. 223p. Illus. 8 bibl. |
| Abstract |
A review of the safety and health hazards encountered in the shipping of crude oil and petroleum products and the necessary preventive measures. Individual chapters are devoted to: petroleum vapours (hazards, evaporation, condensation, saturation); oil fires and tanker explosions (oil vapour and air mixtures, flammable limits and ranges, sources of ignition, etc.); gas concentrations in cargo tanks; cargo-tank venting; inert-gas systems for flammable-product tanks; the hazards of static electricity; the use of insulating flanges and ship-shore bonding wires to reduce the hazards of static and current electricity; fire fighting; tank cleaning and gas freeing; entering and working in enclosed spaces; rescue and first aid after gassing accidents; basic chemistry of oil. Appendices cover: flammability characterisitics of some common petroleums; fire-fighting equipment requirements; toxicity data for certain common substances, etc. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
petroleum; fire prevention; explosion prevention; tankers |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
fire fighting; static electricity; gas-air mixtures; work in confined spaces; asphyxia; ventilation; gas freeing; first aid; explosive limits |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Subject(s) |
Transport and communications
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| Broad subject area(s) |
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| Browse category(ies) |
Explosions
Fires
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