Discussion on the improvement of the standard for the fire safety of large-scale floating-roof oil plant of China

Points out the fact that the requirements of the separation distance, effective bund dimensions and arrange-ments of the large-scale floating-roof oil tanks in China standards like Code for Design of Oil Plant, Code for Design of Petrochemical Enterprise and Code for Design of Crude Oil and Natural Gas Engineering are less strict than those in the related standards of the USA and Japan. Therefore, the authors of the article hold the opinion that the oil plant designed according to the current national standards has less potentiality to resist emergent accidents. They hope to arouse discussions on the problem to improve the safety standard of this kind of oil plant in China.