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Article history: Periodic Internal Inspection Method often results in under-inspection or over-inspection for large-scale
Received 8 June 2011 crude oil tank. Therefore, how to determine reasonable internal inspection interval (INTII) has great
Received in revised form significance on balancing the safe operation requirement and inspection cost for crude oil tanks. Here,
7 August 2011
RBI (risk-based inspection) technology is used to quantitatively assess the risk of crude oil tanks in an oil
Accepted 8 August 2011
depot in China. The risk comparison between tank shell and bottom shows that the risk of tank depends
on the risk of tank bottom. The prediction procedure of INTII for crude oil tanks is also presented. The
Keywords:
INTII predicted by RBI method is gradually extended with the increasing of the acceptable risk level. The
Internal inspection interval
Risk
method to determine the acceptable risk of crude oil tanks is proposed, by which 3.54Eþ04 are taken as
RBI the acceptable risk of the oil depot. The safety factor of 0.8 is proposed to determine the final INTIIs for 18
The acceptable risk crude oil tanks. The INTII requirement in China code SY/T 5921, 5e7 years, is very conservative and lower
Gumbel extreme value distribution than predicted service life of tanks. The INTIIs predicted by Gumbel method are smaller than by RBI
method for tanks with short INTII. Therefore, this paper recommends RBI method to predict the INTII for
crude oil tanks.
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1. Introduction two short-comings for tanks management. On the one hand, due to
the high-capacity of crude oil tank, it is expensive and time-
With the rapid development of petroleum and chemical consuming to clear and inspect tank, which can influence the
industry, storage tank plays an increasing role in the storage of normal production of oil depot. If the tanks without severe corro-
crude oil. Owing to the advantages of saving steel, saving occupied sion defects are opened to inspect, it will cause unnecessary
area and cost-effective construction, large-scale atmospheric inspection cost and business interruption loss. On the other hand, if
storage tanks are widely used (Bai & Liu, 1995; Jiang & Li, 2005; Li, the tanks with high risk are not timely inspected and repaired, it
1996). However, these large-scale crude oil tanks have high will bring potential safety hazard, and even in some cases crude oil
potential risk. Once the leakage of large-scale crude oil tank leakage may happens (Dai, Li, & Long, 2002; Guo et al., 2010).
happens, it not only causes serious environmental pollution, but Therefore, the determination of a reasonable inspection interval
also in some cases causes fire and even casualties. not only can reduce inspection costs and financial loss for business
Inspection of tank is intended to assess the tank integrity and interruption, but also avoid environmental cost, component
identify the problem that may lead to future loss of integrity. The damage caused by the leak of tank.
inspection can provide the information of deterioration state of RBI is a risk assessment and management process which
tank plates and reduce risk uncertainty of crude oil tank. Currently, provides a methodology for determining the optimum inspection
Periodic Internal Inspection is widely used by China’s petroleum methods and frequencies. According to the fact that a large percent
and chemical industry for the management of crude oil tanks. In of the total risk concentrate on a relatively small percent of the
China, the code SY/T 5921 (Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation equipment items or units, RBI can identify the high-risk and low-
Standardization Technical Committee in China, 2000) has specific risk tanks, and focus inspection resource on high-risk tanks. On
requirement for INTII: for crude oil tank it is generally 5e7 years; the premise of ensuring the safe operation of tanks, RBI can extend
the maximum INTII for the new tank cannot exceed 10 years. the INTII of low-risk tanks, which reduce the shutdown frequencies
However, the Periodic Internal Inspection Method often results in and improve the economic efficiency of oil depot. Therefore, the RBI
method is better to balance the safe operation requirement of crude
oil tanks and inspection costs. RBI method has been successfully
* Corresponding author. applied on refinery and processing piping (Chang, Chang, Shua, &
E-mail address: shuaij@cup.edu.cn (J. Shuai). Lin, 2005) and pressure safety valves (Chien, Chen, & Chao, 2009).
0950-4230/$ e see front matter Ó 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
doi:10.1016/j.jlp.2011.08.004
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Less work is reported on the prediction of INTII for crude oil RiskðtÞ ¼ Pf ðtÞ FC (1)
storage tank. Most of them focus on Corrosion Rate Method (Li,
Wang, & Yang, 2005) and Reliability Analysis (Liu, 2005; Shuai & where the POF (Pf(t)) is a function of time, and increases as the
Han, 2010; Xiao, Liu, & Qu, 2005). In this paper, RBI technology damage in the component due to thinning or other damage
is used to predict the INTII of crude oil tanks in an oil depot in mechanisms accumulate with time. The COF (FC) is the financial
China. consequence based on economic losses. Only component damage,
product loss, and environmental penalties are considered in the
consequence analysis of failure for atmospheric storage tank.
2. Risk assessment method of RBI
In RBI, the POF is computed by Equation (2). The procedure in
Fig. 1 is used to determine the POF for crude oil tank.
American Petroleum Institute (API) issue two standards for RBI:
API 580 (API, 2002) “risk-based inspection” and API 581 (API, 2008) Pf ðtÞ ¼ gff Df ðtÞ FMS (2)
“Risk-Based Inspection Base Resource Document”. Recently, The
European Committee for Standardization (2008) develops risk- where gff (Generic Failure Frequency) represents a POF developed
based inspection and maintenance procedures for European for specific component types, but do not reflect the true failure
Industry (RIMAP). frequency for a specific component subject to a specific damage
In RBI, the risk is the product of the probability of failure (POF) mechanism. Df(t) (damage factor) is an adjustment factor applied to
and the consequence of failure (COF), and also is a function of time. account for damage mechanisms that are active in a component,
The equation for risk calculation is showed as following: which modifies the industry gff and makes it specific to the
Table 2
Basic information of crude oil tanks.
Tank no. Last inspection Capacity Tank Last inspection Capacity Tank Last inspection Capacity
interval (years) (1 104 m3) no. interval (years) (1 104 m3) no. interval (years) (1 104 m3)
1 11 5 14 12 5 27 / 5
2 15 5 15 13 5 28 / 5
3 10/8 5 16 / 5 29 / 5
4 15 5 17 10 5 30 / 5
5 16 5 18 11 5 31 / 5
6 6/12 5 18 / 5 32 5 5
7 9 5 20 / 5 33 / 5
8 6 (No data) 5 21 / 5 34 / 5
9 8 5 22 / 5 35 7 10
10 10 5 23 / 5 36 / 10
11 11 5 24 / 5 37 / 10
12 9 5 25 / 5 38 / 10
13 9 5 26 / 5
According to the INTII requirement in code SY/T 5921 and risk uninspected tanks. If we pay attention to 25.68%equipment items,
ranking above, uninspected tanks should be immediately inspected the 91.2% risk can effectively be controlled, which can greatly
to identify the tank corrosion state and reduces risk uncertainty; in optimize the inspection resources and increase economic efficiency
particular, Tank 36, 37, 38 and 16 should take priority for inspection. of crude oil depot.
Fig. 8 presents Pareto analysis for the risk distribution of all
tanks. The sum of risks for tank bottom of 19 uninspected tanks, 4. INTII predictions of crude oil tank
which is 25.68% of all equipment items (not include Tank 8),
account for 91.2% of the total risk of the oil depot. In other word, Internal inspection is one of the main means to keep the
most of risks in oil depot concentrate on tank bottom of 19 integrity of crude oil tanks, which require tank must be out of
Table 3
Risk assessment results of crude oil tanks.
Fig. 3. The result of risk matrix for all crude oil tanks.
service to clear gas and oil for inspection and repair work. By the The predicted INTIIs of crude oil tanks are showed in Table 4.
internal inspection, the real deterioration rate of crude oil tank can When the acceptable risk is 1.42Eþ04, INTIIs for all tanks are higher
be determined, and following repair works also can ensure long- than 5e7 years specified by code SY/T 5921 except Tank 3 with that
time safe operation of tanks in the future. As showed in Fig. 9, of 6.4 years. The INTII of Tank 1, 5, 6, 12, 15, 17 and 35 are larger than
corrosion rates of tank bottom for all crude oil tanks are higher than 15 years; especially Tank 1 is 70 years. The corrosion rates of all
that of tank shell except Tank 6. Due to lower corrosion rate and these 7 tanks are smaller than 0.3 mm/a. After in-service time of 11
thicker thickness of tank shell, the tank shells are eroded more years, maximum corrosion depth of Tank 1 is only 1 mm. The
slightly than that of tank bottom. By the POF and risk calculation for inspection data of Tank 3 show that: intensive corrosion pitting was
many tanks, Guo et al. (2010) and Yuan, Xu, Wang and Li (2009) found on the part of bottom plates of Tank 3; there are 20 bottom
draw a conclusion that the POF and risk of tank bottom are much plates with serious corrosion, in which the maximum corrosion
larger than that of tank shell. Figs. 4e7 also present the consistent depths of 12 bottom plates are larger than 4 mm; the maximum
conclusion with Guo et al. (2010) and Yuan et al. (2009). Therefore, corrosion depth for all bottom plates is 7.4 mm.
the INTII of crude oil tank depends on INTII of tank bottom. Due to The predicted INTIIs of tanks gradually increase with the
lack of corrosion information about uninspected tanks, the INTIIs of increasing of acceptable risk level. When the acceptable risk is
uninspected tanks are not predicted in this paper. 3.54Eþ04, in addition to INTIIs of Tank 3 and Tank 11 are 8.1 and
10.8 years respectively, the others are larger than 12 years. If the
4.1. INTII prediction based on RBI acceptable risk of oil depot reaches to 7.08Eþ04, predicted INTIIs of
all tanks are larger than the requirements specified by code SY/T
In this method, the INTII is defined as the in-service time from 5921, in which that of Tank 3 is 9.7 years, and the others are larger
last inspection until the risk of tank bottom reach the acceptable than 12 years. Therefore, the reasonable acceptable risk is of the
risk of oil depot. The procedure in Fig. 10 is used to predict INTII utmost importance to accurately predict INTIIs of crude oil tanks.
based on RBI technology. 1.42Eþ04, 3.54Eþ04 and 7.08Eþ04 are
respectively taken as the acceptable risk to predict INTII, which 4.2. The determination of the acceptable risk of oil depot
correspond to damage factor Df(t) ¼ 100, 250 and 500 for tanks
with capacity of 50 000 m3. The damage factor Df(t) ¼ 100 is tran- The acceptable risk is one of main factors which affect predic-
sition value from Medium Risk to Medium High Risk in risk matrix. tion result of INTII based on RBI technology. If the acceptable risk is
Fig. 4. POF ranking of tank bottom for all crude oil tanks. Fig. 5. POF ranking of tank shell for all crude oil tanks.
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Fig. 6. Risk ranking of tank bottom for all crude oil tanks.
Fig. 8. Pareto analysis for the risk distribution of all tanks.
too high, it allow crude oil tanks to continue operation under the
condition of high risk, which may cause the leakage of tank; if the 3.54Eþ04, but lower when the acceptable risk is 7.08Eþ04. Table 5
acceptable risk is too low, it decrease the inspection interval of tank, also shows that the MARs for all tanks are higher than 3.54Eþ04, in
which increase the inspection cost and business interruption loss. which Tank 4, 5, 6, 11 and 12 are close to 3.54Eþ04. The determi-
Therefore, the basic principle on the determination of the accept- nation of the acceptable risk for crude oil tank should not be
able risk for oil depot is: on the premise of ensuring safe operation allowed to deteriorate to a point where the minimum acceptable
of crude oil tanks, as far as possible to extend the inspection thickness or fitness-for-service could be threatened. In order to
interval. ensure safe operation of all tanks, an identical acceptable risk for
When minimum remaining thickness of tank bottom is less than the whole oil depot should be lower than the minimum value in
the minimum acceptable bottom thicknesses, the tank bottom MARs of all tanks. Therefore, the acceptable risk of the oil depot
should be repaired or replaced. So the risk at the time when the cannot be higher than 3.54Eþ04.
thickness of tank bottom is eroded to the minimum acceptable Mai, Zhang, and Li (2011) took the damage factor Df(t) ¼ 300 as
bottom thickness is considered as the Maximum Acceptable Risk the target damage factor for large-scale atmospheric storage tanks.
(MAR) of tank. In standard API 653 (American Petroleum Institute, The damage factor Df(t) ¼ 300 correspond to risk value of 4.25Eþ04
2009), if tank bottom/foundation are designed with means or no for crude oil tanks in this paper, which is larger than 3.54Eþ04.
means for detection and containment of a bottom leak, the Based on the comprehensive comparison analysis above and
minimum acceptable bottom thicknesses at next inspection are inspection experience, it is reasonable to take risk of 3.54Eþ04 as
0.05 (1.27 mm) or 0.1 in (2.54 mm), respectively. The minimum the acceptable risk of the whole oil depot.
acceptable thickness of 2.54 mm is selected in this paper. When the
minimum remaining thickness of tank bottom is 2.54 mm, The
4.3. Comparison between RBI and Gumbel method
MARs assessed by API RBI and INTIIs predicted by corrosion rate
procedure of all tanks are showed in Table 5.
According to corrosion characteristics of crude oil storage tank,
It can be seen from Table 5 that the INTIIs for all tanks are higher
corrosion defects can be categorized into general corrosion, local
than 5e7 years specified by code SY/T 5921. The INTII of Tank 3 is
corrosion and pit corrosion. The primary factors affecting service
9.71 years, while the others are higher than 11 years. The INTIIs for
life of crude oil tank are local corrosion and pit corrosion. Much
Tank 1, 2, 3 and 35 are slightly higher than that obtained by RBI
research (Cao, 1988; Liang, Zhuang, & Jiang, 2000) have shown that
method at acceptable risk of 7.08Eþ04 in Table 4; the remaining
the maximum corrosion depths obeys the extreme value distribu-
tanks are higher than that of RBI method with the acceptable risk of
tion of Gumbel type I e maximum extreme value distribution
Fig. 7. Risk ranking of tank shell for all crude oil tanks. Fig. 9. The corrosion rate comparisons between tank shell and bottom.
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(MEVD), its distribution function and probability density function where x is the random variable of maximum corrosion depth, k is
as shown below the location parameter and h is the scale parameter.
In Gumbel method, the INTII is defined as the in-service life
xk from last inspection or initial service time until the thickness of
FðxÞ ¼ R ¼ exp exp (3)
h bottom plate is eroded to minimum acceptable bottom thicknesses
of 2.54 mm specified by API 653. The calculation formula of the
1 xk xk inspection interval prediction for large-scale crude oil storage tank
f ðxÞ ¼ exp exp (4)
h h h is showed as following
D
Nf ¼ (5)
Table 4 yx 1 Cx ½0:7797 lnðln Ra Þ þ 0:4501
INTIIs predicted by API RBI for crude oil tanks.
where Nf is predicted inspection interval, years; D is corrosion
Tank no. The acceptable risk
allowance, mm; yx is corrosion rate, mm/a; Cx is the coefficient of
1.42Eþ04 3.54Eþ04 7.08Eþ04 variation for corrosion depth, mm; Ra is reliability, which is 0.999 in
1 70.06 87.99 104.28 this paper.
2 12.26 15.56 18.55 Fig. 11 presents the INTIIs comparison between Gumbel and RBI
3 6.40 8.12 9.69
4 8.80 11.17 13.32
method with the acceptable risk of 3.54Eþ04. For Tank 2, 6, 15 and
5 15.68 19.90 23.73
6 37.57 47.68 56.86 Table 5
7 9.46 12.01 14.32 Predicted INTIIs and MARs with bottom plate thickness of 2.54 mm.
9 13.07 16.59 19.79
Tank no. INTIIs MARs Tank no. INTII MAR
10 13.10 16.63 19.83
(years) (years)
11 8.55 10.85 12.94
12 34.13 43.32 51.66 1 105.16 7.33Eþ04 11 11.04 3.77Eþ04
13 14.50 18.40 21.94 2 18.64 7.20Eþ04 12 43.56 3.61Eþ04
14 8.77 11.13 13.27 3 9.71 7.13Eþ04 13 20.33 5.20Eþ04
15 15.26 19.37 23.10 4 11.44 3.86Eþ04 14 12.64 5.86Eþ04
17 23.55 29.88 35.64 5 20.84 4.24Eþ04 15 21.23 5.06Eþ04
18 9.99 12.68 15.12 6 49.66 4.15Eþ04 17 34.27 6.08Eþ04
32 12.51 15.88 18.93 7 13.21 5.13Eþ04 18 14.36 5.78Eþ04
35 16.74 21.53 25.74 9 18.67 5.62Eþ04 32 18.57 6.57Eþ04
10 18.44 5.28Eþ04 35 30.10 1.31Eþ05
Note: the dimension of INTII is year.
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Table 6
Suggested INTIIs of crude oil tanks.
and Han (in press) argue that the inspection interval of 5e7 years in reasonable for 18 inspected crude oil tanks. Therefore, deter-
SY/T 5921 should be extended to 8e10 years. In Table 4, INTIIs of all mining the acceptable risk for the oil depot and considering the
tanks predicted by RBI method with the acceptable risk of influence of fire and explosion on risk assessment and INTII
3.54Eþ04 are higher than 8 years. Therefore, the predicted INTIIs prediction of crude oil tank will be our next work.
above correspond with Shuai’s research results.
However, the Periodic Internal Inspection Method has a number 6. Conclusions
of disadvantages for the management of crude oil tanks:
(1) The risk of tank shell is much smaller than the risk of tank
1) The tanks without severe corrosion defects are open to inspect, bottom for all crude oil tanks in an oil depot in China. So the
which will cause unnecessary expenditure in inspection and risk of crude oil tank is determined dominantly by the risk of
business interruption loss, e.g. Tank 1, 6, 12 and 17. tank bottom. 25% Equipment items account for 90% of the total
2) Some tanks with high deterioration rate are not timely risk in crude oil depot.
inspected and repaired, which will lead to potential safety (2) According to risk assessment and risk ranking of 19 unin-
hazard or in some cases may cause leakage accident of tank. spected tanks and the requirement of INTII in code SY/T 5921 in
3) Periodic Internal Inspection Method not only does not consider China, they should be immediately inspected to determine the
the effect of COF on the risk of tanks, but also does not consider corrosion state of tanks and reduces risk uncertainty, in
influence of the plant’s management system on the integrity of particular, Tank 36, 37, 38 and 16 should take priority for
crude oil tanks. A good plant’s management can reduce the POF inspection.
of tank. (3) In RBI method, the predicted INTII of crude oil tank gradually
4) It lacks the freedom to benefit from good operating experience increases with the increasing of the acceptable risk. Based on
and focus finite inspection resources on the areas of the comparison analysis among calculated MARs of 18 inspected
greatest concern (Wintle & Kenzie, 2001). tanks, the acceptable risk proposed by Mai and inspection
experience, 3.54Eþ04 are taken as the acceptable risk. The
RBI is a method which use risk as a basis to prioritize and manage safety factor of 0.8 is used to adjust the INTIIs of 18 inspected
inspection. RBI shift from passive inspection to active inspection. crude oil tanks.
Different crude oil tanks have different inspection intervals, which (4) The INTIIs predicted by Gumbel method are more conservative
can be flexibly determined by the risk of tank. RBI technology not than RBI methods for tanks with short INTII.
only quantitatively assesses the risk of storage tank and improves (5) By the comparison of three standards in inspection interval, it
risk level of oil depot by paying attention to high-risk tanks, but also can be concluded that the INTII requirement of 5e7 years in
can predict inspection interval of crude oil tank. However, in the code SY/T 5921 in china is more conservative than that of
consequence analysis of atmospheric storage tank, API RBI only standard API 653 and EEMUA 159.
considers the influence of leak on storage tank risk, but does not
consider the influence of flammable and explosive consequences.
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