THE EARTHQUAKES IMPACT ON STORAGE RESERVOIRS FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY HAZARDOUS LIQUIDS

Abstract

One of the current problems of mechanical engineering, energy, oil and gas industry, chemical industry is to ensure reliable, trouble-free and efficient operation of storage tanks for environmentally hazardous substances (EHS). Damage and destruction of such facilities lead to environmental pollution and emergencies. Tanks filled with EHS, even in normal operation, belong to the sources of uncontrolled emissions of vapor-gas mixtures and spills of EHS with the subsequent occurrence of fires and explosions. Reservoirs could be operated in hard-to-reach places under conditions of complex loads exposure, which often exceed the calculated values and are characterized by the most stringent conditions to preserve their integrity and prevent leakage of EHS. For environmentally hazardous facilities, it has been important to constantly monitoring their technical condition, monitoring the condition of the surrounding area, which they could affect, assess of natural and technogenic factors affecting these facilities, operational loads assess, prediction the changes in technical condition and prediction the impact of factors of various origin.