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April 5, 2014

LNG tank leak incident

An incident at a a large LNG storage facility in Washington state in USA when an explosion in a "processing vessel" sent sharpnels into an LNG storage tank, puncturing it,has lessons in Quantitative RIsk Assessment and assumptions made.
The graphic leak of LNG from the tank ( which is similar to liquified ammonia tanks) but stores LNG at a temperature of -160 Deg C is shown in the video in a news report. The tank also appears leaking at two different places on the outer shell. The wind direction has helped in not igniting the vapour leak.

Link 1 - video
Link 2- news report


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