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Decree No. 10.877. - Bs. As. 9/9/60
VISTO Issue No. 20,752/58, by which the Ministry of Energy and Fuels raises the Regulation of Law 13.660 on the safety of the installations of the processing, processing and storage of solid minerals, liquids and gaseous fuels, and CONSIDERING: That in its preparation and in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of the Law, the Ministry of National Defence and the Private Secretariats have been involved
The President of the Argentine Nation, Decreta: Article 1 . Approve the Regulations of Law 13.660 which are annexed as an integral part of this decree. Art. 2o La The SECRETARIAT OF ENERGIA will be the competent body referred to by the Regulation to ensure compliance with Law 13.660 throughout the territory of the Republic and, in all cases, to determine the exemptions provided for in Article 3 and to apply the penalties set out in Article 5 of the Law. In addition, the SECRETARIAT OF ENERGIA under the MINISTERY OF FEDERAL PLANNING, INVERSION PUBLICA AND SERVICES, as a Competent Agency, is empowered to introduce the modifications, extensions and/or incorporations of a technical and security character that it deems appropriate, to the current conditions set out in Decree No. 10,877 of 9 September 1960, through regulations that require the requirements. (Article replaced by Article 2 of the Decree No. 401/2005 B.O. 4/5/2005). Art.3o . The penalties applied will be appealable within ten days (10) of notification and prior payment of the fine, to the federal judges of the City of Buenos Aires, provinces and national territory, which are competent for the place of the offence. Art. 4o . The total or partial closure will be available only in case of danger. Without prejudice to the judicial powers, the Ministry of Energy and Fuel may terminate it when the reasons for it have disappeared. Art. 5o . Within the port and coastal areas, river or sea, it will be Competent Agency for the implementation of the Law, the Secretariat of Public Works through its relevant distribution, excluding the determination of exemptions and the application of penalties. In these two cases, the proceedings, once completed, will be forwarded directly by this division to the State Secretariat for Energy and Fuels. Art. 6th Las The provisions of this Regulation shall apply to any entity and body of public or private law. Art. 7o El The present decree will be endorsed by the Ministers Secretaries in the Departments of Economy, National Defence and Public Works and Services, and signed by the Secretaries of State of Energy and Fuel and Public Works. Art. 8o . Communicate, publish, give to the General Directorate of the Official Gazette and Prints and archvese.FRONDIZI. . Alvaro Alsogaray. . Justo P. Villar. . Alberto R. Constantini. . Carlos A. Juni. . Pascual Palazzo.
INTRODUCTION
Law 13.660 seeks the protection of large facilities for the benefit of the health and safety of populations and the conservation of hard-to-replaced fuels for national defence. By regulating it, its application has been limited in relation to the importance of establishments, its storage capacity and the degree of hazards.
In another aspect, it has been projected as a set of provisions aimed at achieving, first, the prevention of fire and then its immediate blockade to prevent its spread to other facilities and ensure its complete extinction.
In its wording, it has been taken very especially into account not exceeding the balance or regulation of economic order that must deprive any measure of prevention.
The provisions contained therein are the result of a comprehensive and thorough study of those that exist in our country and abroad and may be updated periodically following the progress of the technique and the experience that the practice of its application advises.
CHAPTER I
NOMENCLATATIONArticle 101. de For the purposes of this regulation, it is defined as:
Oil distillery: The set of industrial facilities for the processing of crude oil or its derivatives and by-products. Zone of operation in distilleries - Zone I: It is the area occupied by the equipment and installations specifically designed to carry out the process of distillation. Storage tank area - Area II: It is the area occupied by raw material storage tanks, intermediate or finished products and the set of installations intended for the movement of fluids in them contents. Area of auxiliary facilities in distilleries - Area III: It is the set of facilities, equipment and buildings not covered in the previous two areas. Emergency Fireplace: It is a structure designed to eventually receive fluids from processing units that must evacuate them in emergency cases and that has the means to cool them and to download separately the liquids and gases in the form that mainly the latter cannot be the origin of fires. Combustion germs: It is a structure designed to burn waste processing gases or vapors evacuated from units in emergencies. Dehydrating plant: It is an installation composed mainly of equipment intended to separate the water that oil can contain at the time of extraction. These equipment are complemented with pumping, heating and accessories required. Desalination plant: It is an installation similar to the dehydrator, with the difference that the water that is separated has been expressly introduced to dissolve the salts that are to be extracted from oil. Gas plant: It is the set of facilities specifically designed to extract from natural gas from deposits or from those resulting from the processing of oil or its derivatives in distilleries, the liquid components, which contain them. For the purposes of this Regulation, these facilities are considered to be included in these regulations. Recovering cookie: It is a container to which they carry all the liquids of the industrial drainage network, in order to recover the products by preventing them from leaving the limits of the plant. Cargo vans - tanks: It is the set of installations intended for the loading or discharge of liquid fuels to/or from vans-tanks; fundamentally understanding pumping equipment, railroads, load and/or discharge mouths, support structures and auxiliary installations specifically intended for this purpose. Storage tanks are excluded from the whole. Tank truck loader: It is the set of installations intended for the load or discharge of liquid fuels to/or trucks-tanks; fundamentally understanding pumping equipment, loading and/or unloading mouths, access path, support structure and auxiliary facilities specifically designed for this purpose. Storage tanks are excluded from the whole. Storage capacity in flammable containers: It will be understood as storage capacity the maximum geometric volume of authorized flammable containment in the same. Extintor unit: This is considered, for the purposes of this Regulation, the extinctor apparatus or the set of apparatuses whose firefighting capacity is equivalent to the flame retardant foam generated by a 10-liter exintortion device of spumigenic agents. Espuma Ignífuga: For the purposes of these Regulations, flame retardant foam is an element intended to form an insulating layer between a burning surface and air. The use of:(a) Mixtures of known solutions in industry such as A and B (mainly aluminum sulfate and sodium bicarbonate with a stabilizer) stored in tank specifically intended for this purpose.
(b) Mixed solutions of the same type above prepared with special devices at the time of the fire, using powders A and B and water.
(c) Water solution and "Unique powder" formed by a mixture of powders A and B. The solution is formed at the time of the fire using special devices.
(d) Water solution with a special emulsive capable of mixing with air in appropriate quantity. this system is known as mechanical foam or aeroespuma.
Fire classification: For the purpose of an appropriate choice of the extinguisher system, fires are classified as follows: Class A: Fire in common fuel materials in which suffocation and cooling is indispensable for the action obtained by the simple use of water. Class B: Fire of flammable liquids, fats and hydrocarbons in general for which it is essential to cover the surface in combustion with a product that acts as a mantle that drowns it. Class C: Fire in electrical equipment where the extinguisher material should not be a driver. Hydrant: A moisturizer is all device that allows the connection of one to several lines of hoses with a pressure water pipe. Python or fixed monitor: It is a special device permanently connected to a pressure water pipe and is essentially formed by a water spear and the means necessary to fix it in any position. Piton or fixed monitor: It is a special connected device, permanently to a pressure water pipe and is essentially formed by a water launch and the means necessary to fix it in any position. Fog nozzle: It is the device that connects to a common spear, either hose or monitor, allows the spraying of the water at pressure. Muro cortellamas: It is a built wall of reinforced concrete, steel, masonry or any other incombustible and resistant material, specially designed to divide a building into different parts or separate a building from another adjacent, in order to avoid the spread of flames. Wall of containment: It is a fire resistant structure built in iron, concrete, masonry, earth or any other incombustible material, intended to fence a spill originated by the destruction of a container containing flammable liquid fluids, preventing the spread of fire in the case of fire. Safe electrical installation against explosions: For the purposes of this Regulation is an installation constructed in such a way that an explosion of gases that have eventually been introduced into the electrical system) engines, switches, cable conduction pipes, etc.) cannot be propagated into the outer atmosphere. Pier: It is a structure built in navigable waters, as a link between tank vessels and ground installations. Class A springs: They include springs intended exclusively for the transfer of flammable liquids or fuels and do not have on their deck other facilities that are not required for offices, storage of hoses, tools and equipment. The maximum area occupied by these facilities will not exceed 300 m2.These springs can be used for loading and unloading flammable and fuels packed in drums or cans, in no case should such containers be parked on the dock.
Class B springs: They include all springs for the transfer of flammable liquids or fuels, which are not covered by the "Class A".
Ship-tank: For the purposes of these rules, a ship-tank is all vessels intended for the transport of flammable liquids and/or bulk fuels. Construction "fire resistant": They should be considered as "resistentes al fuego", mainly the constructions of reinforced concrete. It remains in order of efficiency, under this concept, the construction of steel coated with a suitable layer of cement thickness. Substructure: It is the part of the dock that is below the deck or includes it. Superstructure: They are all the buildings on the deck of the dock. Coastal area: It is a strip of land adjacent to and parallel to the coast set by Articles Nros. 2,340 and 2,639 of the Civil Code. Manufactured gas plants: Set of installations for the generation, purification, washing and conditioning of gaseous fuels using solid or liquid compounds. Gasometers: They are called gasometers to metal vessels intended for gas storage, to absorb consumption peaks or to reserve in case of emergency. They are basically two types: constant pressure and constant volume (high pressure). Compressor plants: This item includes the different equipment and installations (quake-buyers, separators, coolers, etc.), designed to increase the pressure of the gas in the header or intermediate points of lines of conduction (gasoducts) to allow its transport through them. Transmission pipe - Gas pipelines: They are those whose function is to transport gas from a source of origin to main distribution centers. Pumping pipe: They are those fed by compressive equipment through regulatory teams located in major distribution centers, in turn feed to other secondary distribution centers or district regulators. Distribution pipes: They are those whose function is to provide home services the gas received from the pumping pipe through the district regulators. Household services: They are the side pipes connected directly to the distribution pipe and supplying gas to the domicile meter of each user. Liquefied gas storage and distribution plants: Under this denomination are grouped the different installations in which it is manipulated and "lique gases" understood by that denomination to those hydrocarbons that are pure or mixed, are marketed to the liquid state in containers under pressure, or those installations in which such "lique gas" is vaporized and conditioned for its distribution by networks. Gas storage facilities: Set of pipes, step keys, control valves and gas gauges, intended to receive, store and send gas. Regulatory plants: Set of installations to modify gas pressure, under manual or automatic control. They can be indicator or recorders. Meter plants: Set of elements to determine the gas flow that circulates through a pipe, volume and pressure. They can be indicator or recorders.CHAPTER II
DEFENSES IN PETROLEO DESTILERIESArticle 201. s In order to organize fire defenses in an oil distillery, it is necessary to consider it subdivided into three zones, whose danger follows the decreasing order set out below:
Area I: Operation.
Area II: Crude oil storage tanks and intermediate or finished products.
Area III: auxiliary facilities.
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Water against firesArticle 202. . There must be a network of fire-fighting water pipes, independent of the industrial water network, with which it can be interconnected eventually, which will feed hydrants for hoses, monitors or fixed pitons and fog generators.
Article 203. los At least the necessary devices should be installed so that at any point in the area which is considered to be able to concentrate six (6) jets of water, from independent sockets, of an individual flow greater than thirty cubic meters (30 m)3) per hour. The concentration of jets should not be carried out with hoses whose length exceeds 120 meters.
Article 204. . The power of this network will be ensured by two independent pumping and energy sources and water reserves will be such that ensure continuous operation for a minimum of four hours (4), of the installation working to the maximum of the normal capacity of pumping equipment. The minimum pressure of 7 Kg./cm2 in the most distant shot, with the maximum of open mouths that may be necessary.
Article 205. Cada Each pumping equipment will have a minimum capacity to simultaneously feed fifty percent (50%) of all the devices installed for the defense of the apple that is of greater importance. The water station will have at least one capacity reserve pumping equipment equivalent to the one indicated.
Article 206. El The number of mobile connection elements (mangueras, spears, keys, etc.) and the number of auxiliaries (autobombas, motobombas, shovels, beaks, axes, etc.) is part of the Fire Rol on which it is discussed in this chapter.
ZONA I OS SERVICES SPECIAL IGNIFUGO
Article 207. . There must be a system for generating flame retardant foam that will feed special hoses. The number of these, as well as their distribution and the set of accessories for the purpose expressed, will be such that the installation needs are adequately met.
Article 208. . Such a reserve of foam-generating products should be provided to ensure the operation of the installation or its maximum capacity for at least one hour, covering the area that is considered to be of greater danger.
Article 209. El The general design of the installation will be such to ensure that the interval between the start-up and the arrival of the flame retardant product to the most distant take-up does not exceed 7 minutes.
Article 210. . If water is required for the operation of the fire safety system, the amount required for the minimum interval indicated in the previous article must be added to the reservations specified in the "Water against Fires" section of Area I - Article 204.
ZONA I DE FOREIGN APARTMENTS
Article 211. . Fire extinguishers must be distributed whose number, features and location will be such that adequately meet the requirements of the installation. It is considered essential that there be among the above-mentioned extinguishers, the types necessary for fire of Class B and C.
Article 212. . There should be a water vapor network with individual derivations for furnace homes and chambers of tubular alambique tube heads. Each of these derivations will have an individual block valve that will be conveniently located away from the point to protect.
Article 213. s They should also provide for steam hoses, whose number and distribution will be set in a similar manner to the provisions of articles 207 and 211.
Article 214. . The power of this steam network can be the main high-pressure industrial steam network.
ZONA I S BATERIAS OF CARBONIC ANHIDRID TUBES
Article 215. . Although it is not considered indispensable, its use can be advisable in the closed enclosures totally or partially, where there are risks of spilling of flammable products at high temperature (bombs, etc.). However, such protection may be required when it is deemed necessary.
ZONA I S PASTIC DEFENSES
Distance between equipmentArticle 216. . The distance between equipment, operating units and the subdivision in apple of Zone I, considered, will conform to what establishes the table No. 1, which is accompanied. (Fs. 98).
PLANILLA No. 1
MINIMATE DISTAINS IN METROS ENTRE UNITIES AND EQUIPMENTS IN DISTILERIESARTICLE 216
| FROM | HASTA | ADVISORY IN METROS |
| Fire equipment of a processing unit (1) | Fire equipment of the same unit | 6 Meters of edge to edge |
| Idem... | Fireless equipment of the same unit | 10 |
| Production units where you work with fire | Production units where you work with or without fire | In squares separated by streets |
| House of Calderas - Usinas | Any processing unit | 30 |
| Fire centre | Any processing unit | 30 |
| Packaging and packaging buildings | Any processing unit | 15 |
| Main bomb house | Any processing unit | 15 |
| Gas plant, liquefied gas, gasoline, etc. | Any manufacturing unit with fire | In squares separated by streets |
| High or low pressure gauges. Storage tanks. Liquefied gas | Any processing unit, without fire | Idem 20 meters |
| Major recovery fins | Any processing unit | 30 |
| Truck and truck loader | Any processing unit | 30 |
| Emergency Fireplace | Any processing unit | 50 |
| Combustion chimney | Any processing unit | 50 |
Article 217. Las The apples in which a distillery will be divided will have a hundred and twenty to one hundred and eighty meters (120 to 180 mts.) on the side, separated and surrounded by streets of fifteen meters (15) wide at least, between construction lines.
Article 218. . The streets that surround the units apples will preferably be of the terraplenado type in order to constitute defensive enclosures that contain the possible direct derrames of product and will be suitable for the shooting of vehicles of the fire units, even in the rainy days, so that the mobile elements of the fire defenses of the plant or firefighters, can move without any drawbacks in case.
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Article 219. . In the general case, the use of retaining walls as a means of defence in this area will not be deemed necessary in response to the measures provided for in articles 216, 217 and 218 on distance. Only the construction of these walls will be required, when for special reasons of design it is considered essential, for which the reinforced concrete will be preferred as material of the same.
Article 220. . If there were enclosures for the removal of pumping equipment for the movement of hot products, the walls that separate this enclosure from any other should be of the type of clippers.
ZONA I DE DESCARGA de ELECTRICIDAD ESTATICA
Article 221. . It is considered necessary to have special measures in metallic structures and equipment for protection against discharges of static electricity, either atmospheric or caused by friction of fluids in ducts or containers.
When there are masonry structures (chimeneas, etc.), whose height exceeds the average level of the rest of the facilities, they will be protected with pararrhoea.
ZONA I S SPECIAL PROVISIONS AND MEASURES
Article 222. Toda Any metal structure supporting the or main operating elements, should be protected with a flame-resistant material cover.
Article 223. . In closed enclosures (bombing houses, etc.), the necessary devices should be installed to avoid through proper ventilation, the possible accumulations of gases or vapors in dangerous concentrations.
Article 224. Toda The entire operating area must have an emergency discharge collector system to evacuate liquid products and vapors contained in the equipment in case of fire. Such a system will be formed by two independent networks: one to receive the discharges of liquids and one that will receive the vapors, evacuating the first one at the bottom of a emergency fireplace and the second, as far as possible, in one burning fireplaceor, if not, at the top of the emergency. The evacuation system will be designed in such a way that the determined load loss in the pipes and the chimneys for the maximum of products necessary to evacuate, added to the pressure to which the safety valves are calibrated, is less than the maximum admissible voltage of the respective equipment.
Article 225. de When based on the volume of gases and vapors that may need to be evacuated permanently or at a given time is deemed necessary, the installation of a burning fireplaceheight, capacity and other characteristics to be fixed in each particular case.
Article 226. . Regardless of the operating technical conditions to which the drainage system must be adjusted, the drainage system must be designed in such a way as to avoid the spread of flames through it.
Article 227. . If there are trenches, whether open or closed, for the stretch of cables and pipes, they must have at appropriate intervals and, in particular, at the crossroads, devices that prevent the spread of flames. They will have an efficient drainage that prevents the accumulation of fluids.
Article 228. . In order to prevent the effluent liquid residues of the Area that are considered to be inflammable in nature, drainages will be connected with retrieval piles in number and of characteristics appropriate to that purpose.
Article 229. s In the enclosures that frame industrial groupings in grid or apples, any electrical installation, whether of motor force, of illumination or for any other purpose, intended to cater for equipment that in normal operation can discharge flammable gases or liquids should be of the type explosion insurance.
Article 230. On order and cleaning: The measures to maintain, within the whole of the area considered, the highest order in the area must be extreme. Particular consideration should be given to the need to avoid poor systems that cause difficulties in the implementation of emergency defence manoeuvres.
ZONA II S ACTUAL DEFENSES AND PASTICS
Article 231. . All the defensive provisions established for the installations called "Farms of oil storage tanks and/or their derivatives", as detailed in Chapter II, which deals specifically with them, will be met in this area of distilleries.
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Water against firesArticle 232. . This area will have a firewater network connected with the main network required for Area I, as provided for in Article 202 and it will provide for hose shots, whose number and distribution will be for each case in accordance with the magnitude of the facilities to defend. The distribution of the shots will be such that it allows the attack of possible fires both inside and outside the buildings that make up the area. Automatic or semi-automatic sprayers (sprinklers) will only be installed when required.
Article 233. Los Sites discovered where fireflies can originate should be equally covered with the sockets of this network.
Article 234. . The probable water consumption of the network that is considered will not increase the capacity of pumping equipment or the reserves that have been set as a result of the provisions for the defence of Zones I and II.
Article 235. . The layout of the network and the disposition of the shots will be such that it effectively and especially fills the condition of avoiding the spread of any fire from this area to Areas I and II.
ZONA III SERV SERVICE SPECIAL IGNIFUGO
Article 236. . This type of defense will be used in this area only in those roofed or discovered places where they are regularly manipulated or stored by containerized oil, in which case a prolongation of the main Zones I and/or II system can be used or portable elements will be available to allow the generation of flame retardant foam, through connections with the water network against fires.
Article 237. . The distribution of elements and devices whether fixed or portable will be such that any point in the area, under the conditions set out in the previous article, can be reached with foam from at least two different places.
ZONA III ES FOREIGN APARTMENTS
Article 238. La The distribution of fire extinguishers in roofed environments will be carried out following the following guidelines and which should be understood as minimal measures.
Article 239. s In deposit buildings where there are no products such as nafta, kerosene and similar in cans or drums, or in workshops, offices, etc., there will be a extintor unit for every three hundred square meters (300 m2) of surface, should not be necessary to travel from any point of the place to protect, more than twenty meters (20 m.) to an extintor.
Article 240. s In deposits where there are products such as nafta, kerosene and similar, in cans or drums, on packaging platform, electrical usins, boiler rooms, laboratories and similar, there will be a extintor unit every 200 square meters (200 m2) of surface, should not be necessary to travel from any point of the place to protect more than fifteen meters (15 m.) In these places, a metallic container, with lids, containing sand and two shovels, will be located for use in case of possible spills or to suffocate incipient fires.
Article 241. El The type of equipment to be placed in each environment will depend on the nature of the probable fire, according to the nature of the material to be defended.
Article 242. Los The extintor devices will be located in places accessible to a height that in no case will be greater than 1.50 m. on the level of the soil, in order to allow their use with the minimum waste of time.
Article 243. . The defense of uncovered sites where fires may occur will be addressed with the use of extinct devices and with derivations from the main water and fire foam networks, as provided in articles 233 and 236.
ZONA III DE WATER VAPOR AGAINST INCENDANCE
Article 244. . It is not considered essential to foresee this type of defense in this area.
ZONA III S CARBONICO ANHIDRID BATERIAS
Article 245. . Only when it is deemed necessary can such protection be required in this area.
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DistanceArticle 246. s With regard to distances of buildings or facilities discovered in this area with respect to Area I equipment, the provisions of Table No. 1.
Article 247. . Regarding the distances of buildings or facilities discovered in this area with respect to storage tanks, Zone II, the provisions set out in Chapter III shall be met.
Article 248. de With regard to the distance from the zone, the following requirements will be followed:
(a) Minimum distance between installations where hydrocarbons and buildings where fires exist, 30 meters.
(b) Minimum distance between installations where hydrocarbons and buildings where there are no fires, 10 meters.
Article 249. . For the rest of the facilities, not covered by the previous article, distances will be set with a view to ensuring easy access of staff and equipment in case of fire.
ZONA III MU MUROS CORTALLAMAS
Article 250. . In each particular case, the layout and characteristics of the shorter walls that may be necessary inside of gallons, deposits and buildings in general or between them will be set.
ZONA III STATICAL ELECTRICITY
Article 251. Los The buildings or structures whose height exceeds the average level of the rest of the facilities will be protected with pararrhoea.
ZONE III S SPECIAL PROVISIONS AND MEASURES
Article 252. . In any place where hydrocarbon gases or vapors can be accumulated in hazardous concentrations, the ventilation devices necessary and suitable for disposal should be installed.
Article 253. . The storage of flammable products of an auxiliary character, such as: oxygen, acetylene, varnishes, alcohols, etc., will be addressed by establishing a specially located, designed and protected premises.
Article 254. . The storage of gunpowder, dynamite, gelinite, ammunition and any other product of similar nature is strictly prohibited within the area of a distillery.
Article 255. . This area should be provided with a drainage network with its flammable recovery team and its cameras should be sealed to prevent the spread of fire in case of emergency. Its interconnection with Areas I and II will be optional.
Article 256. ". In all enclosures that are manipulated or stored by petroleum, the electrical installation will be the type "safe against explosions".
Article 257. . The highest order and cleaning should be maintained, with particular regard to the need to avoid deficient systems that may hinder the maneuvers planned for fire cases.
Common provisions for all three areasArticle 258. . The requirements for Areas I and II, in the area of Water against Fire and Special Fire Service, can be addressed as corresponding to the set of facilities in both areas, with a common source of impulsion. In order to fix the capacity of pumps, in this case, and the diameters of the pipes, the values that result individually from the area of greater consumption will normally be taken, unless, by the installations, they are required to consider total or partially cumulative consumptions.
Article 259. . Distilleries will not allow the entry of locomotives with open flames. If this type of machine is required to manoeuvre in the interior of the carriages, the number of empty carriages should be intercalated that allows to make the movements with the locomotive always located outside the area of the distillery.
Article 260. Las The railroads that enter the distilleries will be electrically linked in their entire length and connected to the ground. In the input points of such pathways to the area of those will be installed insulating joints.
Article 261. . In any area of the distilleries it is allowed to use locomotives powered with air or water vapor (generated in external sources) accumulated by pressure, of diesel locomotives or electric diesel, provided they have protection systems to avoid explosions.
Article 262. . The use of automotive electric foxes is authorized in all three zones, provided that their complete electrical installation is armoured and the recharge of energy is done outside Areas I and II.
Article 263. Todo Any automotive vehicle or engine to explosion that transits in areas of flammable will be equipped with extintoral devices suitable to their characteristics and will avoid sparks with arrestallamas.
Fire RolArticle 264. de Under the concept of "Rol de Incendios" is grouped the set of provisions related to the following points:
(a) Planning of maneuvers to develop in case of fires from anywhere in the different facilities.
(b) Organization of fire brigades and distribution of affected personnel.
(c) Detail of the mobile fire attack material.
(d) Detail of the necessary tools.
(e) Alarm system.
(f) Fire drills.
(g) Review and maintenance of active and passive defence facilities.
(h) In general, all necessary measures and means to ensure that, in the event of a fire, the fire attack is done safely, quickly and efficiently.
Article 265. El El Rol de Incendios must be part of the documentation concerning the defences that are envisaged for the protection of a distillery.
Article 266. (a) Art. 264: Under the planning aspect of the actions to develop in case of fire, the Fire Rol will consider in a comprehensive way all the details to be taken into account. The role of each and every person involved in it will be fixed, the fate of each element, etc., facing the possibility of a fire whatever its magnitude, in any part of the distillery.
Article 267. About point (b) Art. 264: The formation of brigades whose mission will be to initiate the fire attack and to carry out all the manoeuvres necessary for this purpose, both in fixed and mobile defense systems. There must be a perfect match between the needs of staff for these brigades, efficiently conceived, and the availability of staff in the distillery at any time.
Article 268. About point (c) Art. 264: In each distillery, mobile equipment and material should be available that, regardless of what is provided in the articles for Active and Passive Defenses of each area, allow the generation of flame retardant foam and the impulsion of pressure water. The characteristics of these elements and their number will be in accordance with the magnitude of the facilities to be defended and the distilleries will in each case and in detail the forecasts in this regard, as well as the distribution.
Article 269. About point (d) Art. 264: The staff that integrates the Fire Rol brigades must have all the tools and accessories necessary for an effective fire attack and those that require the handling of the defensive elements, shovels, peaks, axes, keys, reflectors, etc., in number and features such that allow the most reasonably predictable fire to be addressed. The distilleries will in each case and in detail the forecasts and their distribution.
Article 270. About point (c) Art. 264: Each distillery should have an alarm system covering the entire area occupied by the facilities of the three zones. The system to use, the location of the alarm station, the distribution of the warning stations, etc., will depend on the importance of the facilities to defend. Essentially, the alarm installation must meet the following requirements:
The sound of alarm must be audible in all workplaces where people are normally included in the Fire Rol. Calls that differ substantially from any other that is used in distillery should be chosen for any purpose.
The power supply to feed the alarm system must be obtained in two separate sources.
The signal code used for this system must be clear and will not be given to confusion of any nature.
Article 271. About point (f) Art. 264: The fire drills must be carried out periodically with part or all of the firewall brigades with their equipment and elements, these drills will be programmed in such a way that the partial drills are performed once a month and the totals twice a year at least.
Article 272. About point (g) Art. 264: It will be part of the Fire Rol to take all necessary measures for the maintenance in perfect conditions of the facilities, equipment and elements that constitute the fire defenses, in their entirety.
Article 273. About point (h) Art. 264: Regardless of the elements specifically affected to fire defences, as set out above, the Fire Rol will contain a detail of the auxiliary means that not being exclusively for that purpose can be required in the event of fires. In this regard, the transport vehicles of personnel and materials, medical elements, etc. will be included.
The set of elements and personnel, including in the Fire Rol, should be of such an order that it can in itself cope with the most reasonably predictable fire. However, arrangements should be made to provide, if necessary, with the assistance of the Official Fire Corps or similar organizations of neighbouring facilities. To that end, the Fire Rol will expressly contain the manner in which notice should be given and the role they will play in such emergencies.
The number of signals and legends necessary to guide the staff of the Fire Rol on the location of the mobile and fixed defence elements should be placed in visible places, as well as a detail of the set of manoeuvres to be carried out with the latter, in relation to the different facilities they protect.
CHAPTER III
DEFENSES IN TANKS OF PETROLLING CRUDO AND/O SUS DERIVADOSThis chapter deals with tank parks that contain products that are liquid atmospheric pressure and temperature.
The operative measures relating to tanks containing liquefied gases will be found in Chapter V concerning Gasoline Plants.
_ ACTUAL DEFENSES Water against firesArticle 301. . In every tank park there must be a network of fire-fighting water pipes that will feed devices primarily for the cooling of storage units in case of fires in nearby tanks.
Article 302. Los The devices mentioned in the previous article will be the following:
(a) Hydrants in number and distribution such that it is possible to concentrate at any point in the park six (6) jets of thirty cubic meters (30 m)3) per hour each, at least, without it being necessary to set hose lines of more than one hundred and twenty meters (120) in length.
(b) Pitons or monitors and/or other special fixed devices that allow the formation of insulating water curtains between a burnt tank and those around it. The capacity of these devices will be such that all tanks surrounding another allegedly burned can receive a water flow of thirty litres per hour per square metre (30 liters/h/m)2) of outer surface (more side wrap). The action of these elements can be exercised immediately by the simple opening of the valves or devices of that facility.
Article 303. . In order to meet the services referred to in the above points, pumping facilities will be available whose normal capacity will be the sum of the expenses required for hydrants and cooling devices by setting for the latter the value resulting from the need to refrigerate the set of tanks that make the surface larger in the conditions set out in the previous article.
Article 304. . The supply of water in the amount established in the preceding articles should be ensured with two (2) independent sources of impulsion, each of which, on its own, will have the capacity to do so. The energy used for water impulsion must come from two separate connections or sources.
Article 305. . The necessary water reserves will be available to ensure the operation of one of the impulsion equipment, to its maximum capacity, for a minimum of four (4) hours on a continuous basis. In Mediterranean areas of notorious water shortages, this minimum can be reduced to 2 hours.
SPECIAL IGNIFUGO
Article 306. . A special flame retardant service should be provided to allow foam generation and its shipment on the fluid surface stored in all tanks and conveniently distributed in the park for the connection of portable items. This service is not obligatory for floating ceiling tanks or which store lubricant.
Article 307. La The amount of fire retardants on the plant will be necessary to cover with a 30 cm mantle. foam thickness the area of the largest container enclosure increased with the surface of the remaining tanks, computed in its horizontal projection.
It is understood by remaining tanks that are included in the tank group of which it is considered and which are bound by the paths that contour this grouping.
This amount may be reduced in view of the lower dangers of the products, stored, relative isolation of the tanks, the possibility of using flame retardant products from nearby facilities, etc., but shall not be less than 50 per cent of the provisions of paragraph 1 above.
Article 308. . Storage tanks should have their foam cameras appropriate to the flame retardant system that has been adopted.
However, each storage park will be required to have a suitable portable installation to foam the tank in case the fixed installation fails, in addition to the set of hoses and special spears suitable for this purpose.
Article 309. . For the purposes of installation design, the minimum conditions to be met are set in the following articles.
Article 310. La The amount of foam to be sent, as a minimum to the tanks will be thirty liters per minute and per square metre (30 l. min./m2).
Article 311. La The minimum capacity of the installation; pumping equipment, pipes, etc., will be fixed considering the need to send the aforementioned flow of foam to the larger tank of the park.
Article 312. . No foam camera will be projected for more than 10,000 liters per minute.
Article 313. El The design of the fireproof installation will be such that the interval that runs from the start-up of the installation until the time when foam is obtained in the discharge mouth or taken further away, will not be greater than seven minutes (7).
Article 314. . If water is required for the operation of the special firefighting service, the corresponding amount to exhaust the firefighting product reserves, it must be added to that established for the Water Fire Service in Article 305.
Article 315. . Two independent energy sources should be available for the generation of flame retardant foam and the capacity of each of them will be sufficient to serve the maximum required. If for the generation of foam part of water at pressure, it may come from the Water Service against Fires, in such a case it must be properly extended (bombs, pipes, etc.). The energy used for foam drive in each of the sources will also be independent.
FOREIGN APARTMENTS
Article 316. s The fire extinguishers must be counted, the distribution of which will ensure the guidelines set out in articles 239, 240, 241 and 242.
WATER VAPOR AGAINST INCENDANCE
Article 317. El Water vapor will only be applied in cases of exception.
BATERIAS OF CARBONICO ANHIDRID
Article 318. ). Although it is not considered indispensable, its use can be advisable in closed environments where there is a risk of spilling products, or flammable elements (either or not derived from hydrocarbons) are stored. However, such protection may be required when deemed necessary. The opening valves for the circulation of carbon dioxide must be found outside or in protected sites.
SPECIAL PROVISIONS AND MEASURES
Article 319. . The design of the pipe networks and means destined to the movement of the products that store the tanks, for emergencies will have provisions that allow to evacuate volumes of flammable of importance to other sectors of the facilities, avoiding the increase of the danger potential of the sinister zone.
Tanks at level or high s Passive Defenses s Minimum distances between tanksArticle 320. El The distance between tanks, and between tanks and oil storage facilities and their derivatives, will take references according to the area where parks are installed that are defined as follows:
(a) Exploitation fields.
(b) Port areas.
(c) Airports.
(d) Mediterranean industrial zones.
(e) Urban and suburban residential areas.
(f) Walking routes.
(g) Railway routes.
Article 321. . The distances between tanks will be at least once the diameter of the nearest larger tank measured from wall to tank wall.
Storages of more than 10,000 m will not be admitted3when it comes to groupings in a single enclosure. When it comes to fuel oil or lubricants, that limit can be raised to 15,000 m3.
Will not be admitted in tank groups of more than 2,000 m3 capacity.
When it comes to tanks of more than 15,000 m3special provisions shall be adopted which shall be subject to prior agreement with the Competent Agency.
Article 322. s In every storage park, in addition to the minimum distances that tanks must have among themselves, any tank will be separated:
(a) From the concession limit: 1⁄2 diameter, with a minimum of 15 meters.
(b) From public roads: 1 diameter, with a minimum of 15 meters.
(c) Of the general railways: 1 diameter and 1⁄2, with a minimum of 45 meters.
(d) Houses room and nearby industrial facilities: 2 diameters of the larger tank.
(e) Of the surrounding forests: in an extension of 150 meters.
Article 323. . For tanks operating at pressure above atmospheric pressure, detachments will conform to special rules that will be subject to prior approval by the Competent Agency.
Article 324. . Separations between tanks may be reduced when it comes to tanks for storage of asphalts or lubricants, in which case they may be reduced by 60%, but conditioned that such tanks are included in a park specifically intended to store lubricants or asphalts.
Article 325. Las Fixed fire pumps will be separated from tanks in any orientation, at least once the diameter of the park's larger tank with a minimum of 30 meters measured from the nearest tank wall.
Article 326. . Particular attention will be paid to the dangers that may mean the areas adjacent to the flammable storage parks, particularly in the port areas, whose special measures or cases of exception will be contemplated by the Competent Agency.
Article 327. s Distances will be distinguished for installations intended for the service of transports of liquid flammable that include:
(a) Oleoducts.
(b) Tank tanks.
(c) Tank wagons.
(d) Cisternas.
The distances from these facilities and the services themselves shall include measures aimed at safeguarding public security, and shall take into account the special provisions recommended by the competent authorities within their respective jurisdictions.
Article 328. . The distances for high tanks at airports will contemplate the general guidelines of the preceding items, but they will take special account of the air traffic for the safety of aircraft and lives, adjusting to the provisions of the encoded in the matter.
Article 329. . The enclosures for the containment of the spills will have a capacity equal to the useful volume of the tank plus 10%.
In the case of a tank cluster, the total volume of the enclosure will be equal to the useful volume of the larger tank plus 50% of the total storage capacity of the remaining tanks.
Article 330. . Any enclosure made up of the endications intended to contain the total spill, will have free access by 50% of its perimeter for vehicles carrying extinction elements. In special cases, the Competent Authority may authorize enclosures with only 25% free perimeter.
Article 331. Todo All enclosures will have their endications protected from the action of the waters and the effect of the winds and in place visible there will be a signal that uncovers the minimum quota that should keep the addiction in the coronation, with reference to the inside of the enclosure where the tanks in question are contained.
Article 332. . Providing the tanks with cooling systems to reduce evaporation losses during high temperatures will not reduce the requirements for distances and endication.
Article 333. . In the southern areas, where temperatures make active defenses difficult, passive defenses will be increased, in terms of distances, at least 50%.
Article 334. . Where by the topography of the terrain a possible spill of arsoned product (over boiling) that exceeds the containment walls can endanger the rest of the installations, complementary walls should be foreseen that channel the spill into a conveniently chosen place for the fire attack.
Article 335. . In buildings, galpones or deposits, cut-off walls will be foreseen if special circumstances suggest it. The maximum area enclosed between these walls will be fixed in each particular case by the Competent Agency (Normally such area should not exceed 1,000 m2).
Download static electricityArticle 336. . For the purpose of unloading static electricity, metal tanks must be grounded with the number of sockets determined by the Competent Authority. The design of these shots will be such that the unit of protecting with a layer of land where relative humidity is permanently higher than fifty percent (50%).
Article 337. Los Non-metal construction tanks will be equipped with devices that ensure the discharge of static electricity that can store them.
Special devices and measuresArticle 338. Todo Every tank must have breathing holes capable of allowing the passage of gases that expels or aspires the tank. The dimensions of the same will be in accordance with the maximum pumping flows plus the movement of gases and vapors that determine the climatic conditions of the area.
Article 339. . For tanks that store products with swelling point less than forty degrees centigrade (40oC) such holes will be connected to one or more pressure and vacuum valves.
Article 340. s For tanks that store joints of inflammation exceeding forty degrees centigrade (40oC), a free ventilation protected with mesh wire tissues may be available.
Article 341. Todos All tanks will have some means of emergency that will allow the release of excessive internal pressures generated in them as a result of abnormal situations, such as the warming of the product that they contain following fires surrounding the unit.
Article 342. El The design of the roof board with the walls in the vertical cylindrical tanks should ensure that the roof break will be prior to that of any vertical wall joint.
Article 343. . Total or partial construction of hydrocarbon storage tanks is strictly prohibited using any fuel material.
Article 344. . The use of fixed engines to internal combustion to operate hydrocarbon pumping equipment will only be allowed if they are separated, through conveniently designed walls, from the pumps themselves.
Article 345. La The tank area will be equipped with a network of streets that allows easy access to all the elements and devices that must be maneuvered in the fixed installations of the active defenses and which also allows free concurrence to any point of the portable elements that constitute the Fire Rol.
Article 346. todos All oil storage systems or their derivatives that are made in the open sky are expressly prohibited.
Article 347. Todo All tank enclosures will be connected to a network of catching the spills that could eventually occur. This network will go to recovery pools appropriate to the importance of the facilities.
The network will be stagnant in the enclosure and equipped with all the necessary devices to prevent the spread of fire, the flooding of neighboring enclosures and the possibility of explosive wave due to the presence of gases in the network.
For the purpose of the removal of such recovery pools, each unit will be considered as an additional tank, equivalent to the larger diameter tank contained in the park.
The above will not be applicable in the storage parks of consumer products of industrial groups not related to the oil industry.
Article 349. El The layout of the pipe networks intended for the movement of the fluids stored in the tanks will be such, which meets the following requirements:
(a) The pipes that go through a retaining wall should not affect the watering of it.
(b) It will be avoided, as far as possible, that the service pipes of one tank go through another's compound.
(c) The general tending of the pipes will be done, as far as possible, by uniting them in order to facilitate the attack on any fire that may affect them, with the elements required as the active defense of the park, in the most efficient and economical way.
Article 350. . If there are trenches, whether closed or open, for the cloaking of pipes and cables, they must have at appropriate intervals and especially at the crossroads, devices that prevent the spread of flames. These trenches will have an adequate drainage to prevent fluid accumulation.
Article 351. Toda Any electrical installation in the tank area and in the closed premises or open spaces where they are stored, manipulated or pumped from oil, should be safe against explosions.
Article 352. . In every tank park the electric networks for lighting and motor force will be underground, not the ones intended for lighting the perimeter paths.
Article 353. . Within the enclosures there must be as much cleaning as possible by banning when the tank is in service, the presence in those of any kind of fuel or flammable material. The vegetation in them will not be allowed to develop so that it can be a focus of easy combustion.
Article 354. . Deficient systems that may hinder manoeuvres in the event of an emergency will be avoided.
TANQUES ENTERRADOS
What is provided below applies only in the case of tanks where all units are buried. When parks are to be protected in which tanks are buried and at the level or above, the measures set for them will apply.
Article 355. s Only buried tanks will be considered and reductions will be applied to defensive measures that are later stated, those that meet the following requirements:
(a) They must have their upper part to a depth not less than sixty centimeters (60 cm.) of the level of the ground and below the can of any pipe connected with it. The above-mentioned depth can be reduced to forty-five centimeters (45 cm.), due in this case, a reinforced concrete slab of fifteen centimeters (15 cm.) thick, at a minimum, which will extend thirty centimeters (30 cm.) outside the tank contour in all directions.
(b) When the tank is in a place where heavy vehicles can be transported, the top cover will be 90 centimeters (90 cm), at a minimum, being able to reduce the same to sixty centimeters (60 cm.) if the folder is formed by a reinforced concrete slab of fifteen centimeters (15 cm.) thick.
(c) When the tank cannot be buried in its entirety, the part that stands out from the ground level will be covered with ground up to a height of sixty centimeters (60 cm.) on the roof of it. The deck will be horizontal to the contour of the tank and then descend in slope not greater than 1:11 1⁄2.
ACTUAL DEFENSES
Water against fires, special fire service, etc.Article 356. El The Competent Agency will set in each particular case, according to the importance of the park and the type of construction of the tanks, which of the active defenses are required and what characteristics and designs will have to gather the works and/or devices.
PASTIC DEFENSES
Article 357. . When by its constructive characteristics the tank does not make proper electrical contact with land, the necessary devices should be foreseen to that end.
Article 358. Todo Every buried tank must have a vent that allows the passage of the gases that aspires and explodes. The dimensions of such crates will be according to the maximum load pumping or discharge of the unit.
Article 359. La The mouth of the vent required in the previous article will be equipped with a flame arrestallamas and must have such a disposition and height, that the gases and vapors that come out there cannot be entered into closed enclosures, contact with open flames, nor, in general, be able to originate dangerous accumulations. Also, the height of the cane will be such that by its mouth the stored liquid cannot flow in any circumstances.
Article 360. . In the entire area where crude oil storage tanks are buried, or their derivatives, all kinds of electrical installations will be safe against explosions.
GeneralArticle 361. . Small storage plants should condition their active and passive defenses with appropriate elements that will be subject in each case to the approval of the Competent Agency.
To this end, small plants will be considered, which store a volume of up to 1,500 m3 of light liquid fuels (nafta, kerosene and similar) and up to 3,000 m3 of heavy fuels (gas-oil, diesel-oil, fuel-oil).
Article 362. . The distance in the special case of the fields of exploitation can be increased twice the diameter because it tends to reduce the active defenses.
Article 363. . For heating of premises no systems will be admitted to direct fire.
Article 364. . . Smoking, in general, will be prohibited in any type of facility that operates with fuels, and it can be admitted that it will be done in office buildings, when this does not represent fire risk.
Article 365. . When it is necessary to perform works with open fires or that can originate sparks, with industrial equipment, the absence of dangerous concentrations of gases must be checked in advance through the use of appropriate devices.
Article 366. . The use of anti-chispas tools will be generally encouraged.
Fire RolThe provisions contained in the following article apply to high tank parks, at the level or buried.
Article 367. El The Fire Rol of storage tank parks, must be in full compliance with the provisions on this aspect in the items corresponding to oil distilleries in Chapter II.
CHAPTER IV
DEFENSES IN DESHIDRATADORS AND CRUDO PETROLE DESATORSThe provisions contained in the present chapter concerning Active Defenses refer to dehydrating and disloving plants that are not part of distilleries or storage tanks, in which case their protection will be carried out with such defences required for them.
ACTUAL DEFENSES
Water against firesArticle 401. , For dehydrating plants, capacity over 1,000 m3, per day, govern the provisions for Zone I - Oil Distilleries. In plants whose treatment capacity is less than 1,000 m3the minimum water facilities shall be subject to the approval of the Competent Agency.
Article 402. . Unless expressly required, the installation of a fixed system for the generation of flame retardant foam will not be considered indispensable, the portable elements necessary for the use of the water network required in the previous article may be foamed under the following conditions.
For every thousand cubic meters per day (1,000 m3/d) of treatment capacity of the plant measured on the input oil, will have a shot capable of producing three thousand liters per minute (3,000 l/m) of flame retardant foam. The minimum number of shots to be counted, whatever the capacity of the plant, will be two (2).
When capacity is less than 200 m3 daily cubics, only portable extinguishers will be available in an appropriate number.
Article 403. una A reserve of flame retardant foam generator will be maintained to ensure the operation of the sockets provided according to the previous article, in its entirety and to its maximum capacity for one hour (1 hour), at least, for the case of plants above 200 m3 newspapers.
Article 404. . Water consumption resulting for the generation of flame retardant foam as required in articles 402 and 403, will be added in reserve and pumping capacity to the necessary for the Water Service against Fires.
Fire extinguishersArticle 405. s Fire extinguishers will be distributed throughout the area occupied by the plant, following the following guidelines that are detailed and which should be understood as minimal measures:
(a) It will be installed an extintor unit every 200 square meters (200 m2) of floor area, including those occupied by auxiliary facilities.
(b) It will not be necessary to travel from any point of the plant more than fifteen (15) meters to the nearest extintor apparatus.
(c) The devices to be distributed will indistinctly be able to attack class B and C fire.
(d) They will be located in places accessible to a height that in no case will be greater than 1.50 m. on the level of the soil, in order to allow their use with the minimum waste of time.
Water vapour against firesArticle 406. . For pumping and dehydrating plants in general, with vapour alambiques or heaters, with or without electrical equipment, special provisions will be made in the steam network, so that the application of hoses for defense in the most vulnerable places.
PASTIC DEFENSES
The measures described below are applicable to dehydrating and sliding plants composed of standard measuring treaters, approximately five meters (5 m.) high and three meters (3 m.) in diameter. If these are essentially different teams, the acting agency will set the measures in each particular case.
Distance between equipmentArticle 407. ). Between wall and wall of treaters there must be a minimum distance of two meters (2 m).
Article 408. . For the rest of the equipment the provisions set out in Table No. 1 concerning Article 216 must be met.
DetentionArticle 409. . Traffickers must be surrounded by 1 metre (1 m.) high containment enclosures, at least arranged so that there can be no more than eight (8) dehydrators within the same enclosure.
Special devices and measuresArticle 410. a With reference to the following aspects:
s metal structure coating
de ventilation device
drainage
tri trenches
pile recovering pools
. order and cleaning; the measures provided by Zone I - Distilleries shall apply in articles 222, 223, 226, 227, 228 and 230.
Article 411. Todos All equipment that normally contains oil should have connections to a network of pipes that will enable them to evacuate in the event of an emergency, either by unevenness or by pumping.
Article 412. Toda Any electrical installation, whether of motor force, lighting, for the process itself or for any other purpose, must be of the safe type against explosions.
Article 413. . From using electric current for the dehydration process, the design of the installation will be such that it is possible to interrupt the supply of energy to the traffickers without affecting the march of pumping equipment or lighting.
Article 414. . On the transit of vehicles on these plants govern the provisions contained in articles 259, 260, 261, 262 and 263.
ROL OF INCENDS
Article 415. el The Fire Rol must be adjusted to the provisions of Chapter II concerning Oil Distilleries.
CHAPTER V
_The provisions contained in this Chapter concerning Active Defenses refer to petrol plants that are not part of distilleries, in which case their protection will be carried out with such defences as are required for them.
ACTUAL DEFENSES
Water against firesArticle 501. . On the aspect of firewater, the same provisions are governed by Chapter II, as for Zone I of Oil Distilleries.
Special Emergency ServiceArticle 502. de Unless expressly required, the installation of a fixed system for the generation of flame retardant foam will not be considered indispensable, the portable elements necessary for the use of the water network required in the preceding section should be available under the following conditions:
For every two thousand square meters (2,000 m2) of the area within the contour that surrounds the processing facilities, will have a shot capable of producing three thousand liters (3,000 l.) of foam per minute.
The minimum number of shots to be counted will be two (2), regardless of the mentioned area.
Article 503. . A reserve of flame retardant foam-generating product will be maintained to ensure the operation of the sockets provided for in the previous article, in its entirety and its maximum capacity, for at least one hour (1 h.)
Article 504. . Water consumption resulting for the generation of flame retardant foam as required in Articles 502 and 503, will be added in reserve and pumping capacity to the necessary for the Water Service against Fires.
Fire extinguishersArticle 505. . Fire extinguisher appliances will be distributed in order to comply with the provisions in this regard for Crude Oil Dehydrator Plants in Article 405.
Water Vapor against Fires and Batteries of Carbonic TubesArticle 506. . With regard to water vapor protections, compliance will be made to the requirements for Oil Distilleries Zone I in Articles 212, 213, 214 and 215, whether or not they have heating furnaces and alambiques.
PASTIC DEFENSES
Distance between equipmentArticle 507. . With regard to the distance between equipment in petrol plants, the provisions of articles 216 and 217 relating to Zone I of Oil Distilleries shall be complied with.
Containment wallsArticle 508. . With respect to walls of containment in petrol plants will be fulfilled to the provisions of Article 219 concerning Area I - Petroleum Distilleries.
Special devices and measuresArticle 509. . When, based on the volume of gases to be permanently evacuated, it is considered necessary, the installation of devices suitable for combustion of the same can be required.
Article 510. a With reference to the following aspects:
de ventilation devices,
; drains;
; trenches;
; pools recovering;
; order and cleansing;
Measures for Zone I of Petroleum Distilleries shall apply.
Article 511. Toda Any electrical installation, whether of motor force, lighting or for any other purpose, must be of the safe type against explosions.
Article 512. Todo Any storage tank of products that should be put under pressure to stay liquefied, should be provided with a fixed and permanent cooling system with water rain that prevents the lifting of the pressure above the admissible work of the tank. Such a cooling system should be connected to both the industrial and fire safety net.
Article 513. . If for climate reasons it is considered necessary, a facility similar to the one specified in the previous article may be required for tanks of any property intended for petrol storage.
Fire RolArticle 514. El The Fire Rol in petrol plants must be in line with the provisions in this regard, in Chapter II on Oil Distilleries.
CHAPTER VI
_ Defenses in ports with inflammable trafficArticle 601. . General ports with traffic of flammable products constitute a particular problem of safety against sinisters.
When the movement of flammable is important, it must concentrate on a "flammable section" or "flammable wars" exclusively for that traffic. This section or drainage must have the most immediate access from the port's mouth and independent location with respect to the other port sections in order to transit and ship apostolate and the location of the deposit facilities.
It is attribution of the Competent Authority in port matter, to study and apply the general and particular safety rules that enliven the traffic of flammable in the ports. Such measures shall be submitted to the Competent Agency for consideration.
_ Passive design and defenses Location and distanceArticle 602. Los The springs for the transfer of flammable liquids and fuels cannot be located at a distance less than 120 m. of any bridge over water or of the entrance or superstructure of a tunnel for vehicles or railroads, built on waterways.
Article 603. . The distances between the docks that do not have "fire resistant" substructure will be fixed by the Competent Agency.
Between two springs of class A, there are no limitations of distance whatever the type of substructure used in them.
Note: For information it is expressed that for the same place the distances between two quays of Class B, or one Class B and another non-oil spring, will be greater than between quays of Class A and another of Class B or non-oil.
Article 604. ". When the distances between docks according to what the preceding article establishes, be less than those set by the Competent Agency, the substructure of the dock will be "fire resistant".
Fire resistant substructuresArticle 605. . It will be proposed that all structure of the docks be built with fire resistant materials: reinforced concrete or other equivalent, for piloting, platforms walkways, etc.
Substructure of fuel materialArticle 606. . It can consist of a pilotage of hard woods .stable not less than 30 x 30 cm. and a platform of equal material. without interstices and a minimum thickness of 10 cm.
SubstructuresArticle 607. . On these docks only constructions will be allowed in incombustible material, which will be used exclusively for the storage of elements of transvases and security and location of the surveillance personnel.
Drum tank and packaged productsArticle 608. El The tank of drums and packaged products will only be allowed on fully constructed springs with incombustible material.
ACTUAL DEFENSA Water and flame retardant foamArticle 609. . In order to serve the defense of the docks and of the bitter vessels will extend to those the water networks against fire and firefighting foam that normally possess the storage plants or annexed distilleries, installing moisturizers on the dock or on the shore in the sufficient quantity to use all the power of the respective plants. Failure to install pumping plants.
Article 610. . Without prejudice to the provisions of the previous article, portable equipment suitable for suffocating an incipient fire from spills or other similar cause will be available.
Special devices and measuresArticle 611. Los Liquid fuel storage tanks will be separated from the docks for a minimum distance of a diameter, not being able to be less than 50 m.
In cases of large storage or distilleries, or ports of much traffic, the Competent Agency may require greater separation.
Article 612. Las The product pipes should be equipped with valves on the coast and electrically connected to the ground, along with the connection with the tank vessel.
Article 643. Las Transvase pumps on the ground should be provided with a device that does not allow the pressure to be overwhelmed by the safety load of the hose.
Article 614. Las Flexible-type hoses or pipes used in inflammatory liquids are required to support a pressure equivalent to 25% of the work investment to which they will be subjected.
Article 615. Toda Any electrical installation, whether of motor force, lighting or for any other purpose, located in the dock area, should be of the safe type against explosions.
The housing of all engines and generators located at the dock must be connected to the ground. All fuses and switches on the lines for winchs, winchs or forklifts should be kept locked. These lines will remain without tension, except in operating periods.
Article 616. . The installation and use of internal combustion engines is not recommended at oil springs. If your installation is essential, you will need to have equipment blocking sparks and escape.
Article 617. Las The railroads that enter the deck of a dock will be electrically linked in all its length and will connect to land. All rails will be placed insulating joints at the entrance point to the dock.
Transfer operationsArticle 618. El The tank vessel must be electrically connected to the ground before the hose is connected. This electrical connection should be maintained until the hose has been disconnected.
Article 619. Las The hoses must have a sufficient length to foresee the movements of the tank vessel. Where flange connections are used, no less than three buns will be permitted in any case. Under the connection of the hoses with the pipes, containers should be placed to collect possible losses.
Article 620. de Prior to the transfer of the load, the dock must be inspected to see if the following conditions are met:
(a) That there are no people smoking in places where it is forbidden to do so. To that end, permanent posters should be placed with the legend "Prohibited smoking", in appropriate places and in different languages, mainly Spanish and English;
(b) That any work that has not been properly authorized is not being carried out;
(c) That the hose is conveniently connected and the manoeuvre valves in conditions of operation;
(d) That there are no fires or flames open on the dock in the vicinity of the tank ship.
Article 621. las During the transfer operation, the following precautions should be taken:
(a) The maneuver valves of the dock and tank vessel should be monitored;
(b) The operation will be controlled slowly;
(c) It will be noted whether the hose or its connections present losses;
(d) The load will be controlled to prevent spills in the receiver tanks.
Article 622. El The transfer may not begin or should be stopped if it has already begun, in the following cases:
(a) During electric storms;
(b) If a fire occurs at the dock or tanker. In the event of a fire outside the dock, the local authority will decide on the need to stop the operation;
(c) Because of any circumstances that set a situation of danger (proximity of vessels, collisions, etc.).
Article 623. . Once the transfer operation is finished, the valves in the connection of the hose to the dock pipes must be closed.
Article 624. . The necessary means should be foreseen to prevent possible spills of flammable products or fuels on the water, to form accumulations, for which a cleaning service will be organized permanently or not, according to the volume of operations and the importance of the oil spring.
Article 625. . Prior to the loading or unloading of any product other than that transferred, a special authorization must be requested from the person responsible for the manoeuvre, who must verify whether such products represent a fire hazard.
Article 626. . In no case should explosives be loaded into tanks carrying flammable liquids or fuels.
Article 627. . Trucks and other transient vehicles will only remain in the docks or docks the time needed to load or download. Such vehicles must be equipped with approved type extinguishers, the recharge of fuel on the deck of the docks is prohibited.
Article 628. . Preferentially it should be used in the area of the pier for foxes and electric traction vehicles; these or those that were driven by internal combustion engines, should be provided with devices for blocks of sparks or flames.
Article 629. . The circulation of locomotives to open flames in the dock area will not be allowed during the transfer of flammable liquids or bulk fuels. Machines with pressure accrued air or steam may be used, generated from external sources or other expressly authorized traction.
If the use of open flame locomotives is required to maneuver wagons within the docks, the sufficient number of empty cars must be intercalated to prevent locomotives from entering them.
Article 630. . Within the dock area, open flames, fries, welding equipment, oxygen should not be used for the cleaning of coal from the engines, etc., without prior permission from the competent authority.
Article 631. . In the entire pier area the highest order and cleaning must be maintained. Metal containers will be distributed to collect the materials soaked in fuel (steps, rags), the use of the gasoline to be replaced by kerosene or similar liquids. The contents of these containers will be extracted daily and burned out of the dock.
Article 632. . Compliance with the provisions for transfer operations will be the responsibility of the local Competent Authority.
Fire RolArticle 633. El The Fire Rol at the docks must conform to the general provisions that were set out in Chapter II concerning Oil Distilleries.
CHAPTER VII
TANQUES DEFENSAThe provisions contained in the present chapter concerning Active Defences refer to loaders that are not part of distilleries or storage tanks, in which case their protection will be carried out with such defences required for them.
ACTUAL DEFENSES
Water against firesArticle 701. s The means must be counted to feed water hoses in such a way that on any point of the installation can concentrate 4 jets of water of a minimum of twenty cubic meters per hour (20 m)3/h.) and with a pressure not less than five kilos per square centimeter (5 Kg./cm2) measured in impulsion mouths. In areas where water shortages are notorious, they will be resolved in particular through adequate firewalls.
Article 702. . The means mentioned in the preceding article may be made up of a network of fixed equipment and moisturizers or mobile equipment such as autobombas or motobombas to which the hoses are attached directly, depending on the choice of the system to use, of the importance of the installation to defend.
Article 703. s If fixed pipes and moisturizers are required, their location will be chosen in such a way as to meet the following requirements:
(a) They must allow the attack from both sides of the tank carriages or trucks;
(b) They should not be blocked by trucks or cuts of tank cars;
Article 704. . The quantity and features of accessories such as hoses, spears, nozzles, tools, fog nozzles, spikes, shovels, etc. will be subject to approval in each particular case.
Article 705. . A suitable water reserve will be set to feed pumping equipment for a minimum of two (2) hours at maximum capacity.
Special flame retardant serviceArticle 706. . The equipment needed to produce a minimum amount of foam equal to two hundred liters per minute (200 l/m) and by the loader's mouth, with a reservation equivalent to ten minutes (10 m). The amount of equipment to be expected may not be less than the amount required to produce a thousand liters (1,000 l.) of foam.
Article 707. . If the use of water is necessary to generate the amount of foam established in the previous article, the capacity of pumping equipment should be increased in the respective quantity, and the reserve may be maintained, except express provision to the contrary of the Competent Agency which, in such case, will determine the increase of the same.
Fire extinguishersArticle 708. s About the distribution of extintoral devices in truck loaders and tank carriages will be fulfilled what in this regard is provided by sFor Zone I of Petroleum Distilleries el Article 211.
Water vapour against firesArticle 709. . Such protection may be required in cases where there is a water vapor installation for the normal operation of the shipper.
Article 710. . In case of installing a defensive water vapor service, the requirements of flame retardant foam that were set out in the art can be reduced. 706, to the extent that it is especially authorised.
Passive defencesArticle 711. . The provisions of Planilla No. 1 for Article 216, regarding the distances between freighter and tank trucks and distilleries facilities, will be met.
Article 712. Las The minimum distances to keep between loaders and surface or high tanks will be adjusted to the following:
| Tank capacity in m3 | Minimum distances in meters |
| up to 50 | 3 |
| from 50 to 90 | 4,5 |
| from 90 to 120 | 6 |
| 120 to 200 | 7.5 |
| more than 200 | 9 |
Article 713. La The minimum distance to stay between a boiler room and the nearest mouth of a loader will be 30 meters (30 m).
Article 714. La The minimum distance to be maintained between a pump room and the nearest mouth of a charger will be 15 meters (15 m).
Article 715. La The minimum distance to be kept between a public road and the nearest mouth of a charger will be 12 meters (12 m).
Containment wallsArticle 716. . Construction of retaining walls may be required in cases where the particular characteristics of the loaders or the topography of the terrain so require.
Download static electricityArticle 717. . The installation needed to ensure an effective discharge of static electricity that could be generated in the input and output conduction pipes, in the rails and in the tanks of the transport vehicles should be foreseen. The chrome No. 2 that guides on the way of making connections for the purpose expressed, must be disposed of a land grab for every three (3) load or discharge mouths (fs. 132).
Special devices and measuresArticle 718. . The use of wooden support structures is prohibited for loading tanks and trucks.
Article 719. a With reference to the following aspects:
Ventilation devices;
; drains;
; trenches;
y order and cleaning
The measures provided for Zone I of Petroleum Distilleries shall be applicable in articles 223, 226, 227 and 230.
Article 720. Toda Any electrical installation, whatever its purpose, must be of the safe type against explosions.
Article 721. . The passage of lines, electrics, whatever their tension on truck loaders and tank cars is prohibited.
Article 722. . On the use of internal combustion engines for pumping equipment drive will apply the provisions in this regard in Article 345 concerning tank parks at level or high.
Article 723. El The movement of tank carriages in loaders will conform to the following requirements:
(a) The use of locomotives with open flames for this purpose will be avoided as far as possible, using diesel locomotives, electric foxes, automotives, fixed malacates, etc.
(b) When it is inevitable to resort to locomotives with open flames, the number of common wagons necessary to ensure that the locomotive does not enter the loader must be arranged.
Fire RolArticle 724. El The Fire Rol in chargers must be in line with the general provisions that were set out in Chapter II on Oil Distilleries.
CHAPTER VIII
A , NOMENCLATURA, DEFINITIONS AND SPECIFICATIONSArticle 801. de For the purposes of this regulation is defined as:
Ethyl alcohol factory or similar fuels: The set of facilities for its processing and storage. Warehouse - Area I: It is the area occupied by warehouses and fuel tanks produced and the set of facilities for the movement, dispatch and reception of such products. Industrialization Zone - Area II: It is the area occupied by equipment and facilities specifically intended for the development of ethyl alcohol or similar fuels. Flammable liquids: They are considered flammable, miscible or not with water, those, who are able to enter combustion with the oxygen of the air, even if they are not intended exclusively to be used as "fuels". Point of inflammation: It is the temperature at which these liquid fluids, atmospheric pressure, produce flammable vapours in appropriate mix with air. Hydrant: It is a device that allows the connection of one or more hose lines with a pressure water network. Piton to fixed monitor: It is a special device permanently connected to a pressure water network, consisting of a water launch and provided with the necessary means to direct it in any position. Firewall or firewall: It is a wall built in incombustible material, designed to subdivide spaces or separate buildings from other adjacent ones in order to avoid the spread of fire in case of fire. Security Strip: It is the extension of land that surrounds a installation of industrialization or storage of these fluids. This extension must be free of construction, equipment or materials.By specifying the measures of the security strips, the terrain or part of the terrain on which the aforementioned facilities are located, is not surrounded by buildings or that the neighbouring buildings have compact walls, free of openings and fireproof to the ground.
Buildings will not be permitted, even if they are located outside their own land.
Special preventive measures will be taken in the event that the facilities are located on rivers, lakes, channels or railway facilities.
When locomotives travel on these tracks on open fire, the walls of the gallons and the premises in which there is a fire hazard, they must not have openings to that front.
Within the security strip, the layout of public roads and roads is prohibited.
When the installation of a safety strip is not possible with sufficient width, it may be replaced in whole or in part with a fireproof wall or terraplens whose height and other dimensions supplement the deficiency in the opinion of the competent authority.
Surface or containment compound: It is thus called the closed space limited by the outer edges of a storage tank, wall of a warehouse and/or inner line of the terraplén that surrounds it, intended to prevent the extension of a spill. Container identification: Each container will have a plate indicator of the manufacturer firm, year of construction, capacity of the container and pressures of test and work. The sheet will be applied in visible place. Capacity: The calculation of the flammable fluid amounts will be done for all the containers and tanks, according to their total capacity, although only partially full. B DE GENERAL CHARACTER PROVISIONS Field of applicationArticle 802. . These regulations are applicable in Zones I and II of the ethyl alcohol factories and other flammable liquids whether or not they are miscible with water, which can be applied as fuels.
Compliance with regulationsArticle 803. Las The installations referred to in this regulation must be constructed and operated according to the following provisions and noting, in addition, the rules accepted by the technique.
Limitations on the use of fires, artificial lighting, etc.Article 804. . Within the application area, fire on and use of open lights is prohibited. In this area, smoking and phosphores and lighters are prohibited, which will be highlighted by well-visible legends. Electric lighting and power equipment will be shielded.
Explosive atmosphereArticle 805. . In the open places or in closed environments, where explosive atmospheres can be generated, the installation of engines and any equipment or artifact that can cause sparks will be prohibited, forced tying must be installed if the natural tyranny for ventilation does not offer sufficient proven guarantee.
Warehouse of flammable in dangerous placesArticle 806. Los The places where people are permanently located or passing, as well as those intended to store auto or easy combustion materials will not be used for fuel storage.
CHAPTER IX
SPECIFIC PROVISIONSI) ZONA I
A de Defense in drum tankArticle 901. El These rules only apply for drum deposits whose storage capacity deas a whole sea is more than 200 m3.
Article 902. . The drums will be hermetic, to breakage tests and should be filled up to 95% of their capacity.
Article 903. Los The empty containers, built in non-fuel material, will be well closed. The empty containers, built in fuel material, will be stretched out of the warehouses.
Article 904. Toda All strips of drums in greater than fifty, whatever the individual capacity, will be protected by means of safety strips of five (5) meters wide.
The width of the stips should not pass 10 meters.
ACTUAL DEFENSA
Article 905. de It will be constituted by a water network provided with hydrants, or similar devices, in number and distribution such that, anywhere in the deposit it is possible to concentrate simultaneously, for every 100 m3 storage capacity, a 150 litre water jet per minute that reaches no less than 15 meters. Water reserves will ensure at least two hours the continuous operation of the equipment to the maximum required capacity.
Article 906. , When the storage capacity on reels, overlay 2,000 m3 The facilities of a sprinkler network should be equipped. In such a case, the capacity of these cooling devices will be such that it can drive 100 liters of water per hour and per square meter of surface to refrigerate.
It will be understood by surface to refrigerate, the third of the sum of the lateral surfaces of the drums exposed to the fire-living, considering the maximum of drums that is admissible to store in the enclosure.
PASTIC DEFENCE
Article 907. . Storage places should be well ventilated and illuminated. They must be separated from other environments through fireproof walls. They should not have drainage ducts to streets, patios or cloacales, etc., and should not have openings that look at heating fireplaces.
Article 908. . For heating you should use only hot water or other heating agent that offers the same fire safety.
Article 909. . Storage basements are allowed, provided they have an artificial or forced permanent ventilation, that evacuates gases from the floor to the open and are equipped with sufficient and blast-proof lighting systems. They will also have facilities to cool with water, from nearby moisturizers and in sufficient numbers, any light bulb.
Article 910. Todos All places used for storage must have a waterproof and spark-proof floor. In case of spill, there must be the possibility that flammable can be collected and captured. The doors of the deposits must be opened outward, having to be the fireproof construction materials.
Article 911. . The deposits must have a minimum distance of 5 meters to the doors and windows of neighboring buildings when there is a possibility of sparks, fire or fuel materials.
Article 912. s For deposits between 200 m3 500 m3 safety strips of 15 meters wide will be available.
B de Defense of reception, office and mixing areasArticle 913. . In this chapter we consider included the loaders of trucks-tanks, trucks-tanks and boats, in Zone I.
ACTUAL DEFENSA
Article 914. de When the daily capacity of office exceeds 50 m3/days will protect the installations by equipment installed on a water network that admits a flow not less than 50 m3/h. and pressure not less than 7 Kg./cm2 At any point.
Article 915. If capacity exceeds 200 m3/day, there will also be special forecasts to apply flame retardant so that it is feasible to cover the area with a foam blanket of 20 cms. of thickness in the term of an hour, at least, in the area of greater dangers.
Article 916. . Such facilities may be connected to the industrial water network, if there is sufficient pressure.
Article 917. s In accessible places and in proper distribution, fire extinguishers or fire extinguishers will be available on the basis of steam flame retardants, not less than one extintoral unit per 5 m3 movement capacity in the office.
PASTIC DEFENCEArticle 918. Los Places for reception, dispatch and mixture should be sold and illuminated and separated from adjacent premises, through firewalls.
The liquids that are lost during the manipuleo should not reach sewers, basements or wells, and should be fully collected and captured.
For heating, only hot water or other indirect heating agent will be used.
The floors must be waterproof, spark-proof. The doors of the premises should be opened out and be incombustable.
Article 919. Estos These places are considered dangerous with respect to explosions. The electrical installation will be explosion-proof. Electrical and pararrhoea facilities will be inspected annually.
Article 920. . They will be surrounded in their main contour by security strips. When they result on railway installations, the transit of locomotives to open fire will not be permitted. The premises that existed in front of railway lines may not have openings in that part.
Stations linked to deposits must have a safety strip suitable for maximum storage capacity, with a minimum distance of 15 meters.
In the area of tank parks and tanks constructions such as warehouses, scale houses and pumps will be avoided.
Article 921. . The use of open fires, welding, etc. will not be permitted at all without the prior adoption of special safety measures.
Article 922. Los The equipment used for the different operations will be connected to the ground and will be explosion-proof if it were motor force elements.
Article 923. . The workshops, warehouses, garages and other auxiliary units will be installed preferably, in separate sectors with adequate distances and framed in such provision that the roads serve as passive protection.
II) ZONA II
C de Industrial area defense a) Development facilitiesDefenses in alcohol distilleries and similar flammable.
Article 924. Esta This regulation applies to plants whose processing capacity is greater than 1,500 m3.
ACTUAL DEFENSA
Water against fireArticle 925. . There should be a sufficient fire water network to ensure the normal functioning required to hydrants for hoses, monitors or fixed pitons and also fog generators that will be installed on it.
Article 926. , Equipment to allow the attack on the most dangerous sectors must be installed at a minimum, with a flow of 30 m3/h, with a minimum pressure of 7 Kg./cm2 At any point.
Article 927. El 50 percent of the devices installed in the most dangerous zone should be ensured in its simultaneous operation without diminishing the pressure of the network.
Article 928. El The number of moving elements will have a proper distribution to the needs (mangueras, spears, keys, etc.), and assembled with the auxiliary elements (autobombas, motobombas, shovels, beaks, axes, etc.), will form part of the Fire Rol that deals with this title.
Special flame retardant serviceArticle 929. . It will be made of portable elements, adaptable to the water network in its moisturizers for the sending of fire retardants capable of generating high-powered adhesive foam covering in any area of the industrial plant.
Article 930. . For emergencies, extintors of foam, carbon dioxide or other element capable of combating small pockets within the reach of operators for the initial and immediate attack should be located. An extintor will be required every 10 m3 production capacity.
Article 931. Las The reserves of flame retardant agents by foam generators will be such that they allow to operate for at least one hour, with two portable equipment.
Article 932. . Vapor sockets will be adapted with hoses and spears on fixed devices for emergency measures and prevention in dangerous places.
PASTIC DEFENCE
Distance between equipmentArticle 933. ). The distance between equipment, processing units and the subdivision in apples will be adjusted to forecasts that contemplate at least a separation of 8 meters between groups in their main constituent units (torres, pump room, control rooms, etc.), and 15 meters with the auxiliary groups (lands, maceration rooms, etc.).
Article 934. . The distances may be reduced but resources will be arbitrated (murs, fires, etc.) to supplant in their effects such a decrease.
Article 935. Las Separations, streets, steps, etc., will have facilities for the free access of fire fighting equipment, and will contemplate the degree of danger and the predominance of zone winds
SPECIAL PROVISIONS
Article 936. Todos All equipment will be grounded for the discharge of static electricity.
Article 937. . Pararrayos will be located in the special structures whose height will appear to exceed the average level of the rest of the facilities.
Article 938. Todas All structures will preferably be incombustable material and special protection measures will be taken.
Article 939. . Forced tyranny must be installed in all closed environments whose natural tyre is insufficient and there is the possibility of forming explosive mixtures, by accumulation of gases or vapors.
Article 940. Todas All safety valves must be unloaded and in case of significant hazard conditions, the discharges to emergency fireplaces should be carried away conveniently located at a distance not less than 30 meters. The permanent evacuation of gases or vapors to the atmosphere is prohibited, without the application of a fireplace in which it is possible to cool them at room temperature.
Article 944. . The installation of hydraulic-free drainage systems that prevent the spread of fire to other sectors is prohibited.
Article 942. Toda Any electrical installation for illumination or outside motor will be the safe type against explosions.
Article 943. . Order and cleaning measures will be extreme, and special surveillance will be available in the order in such a way that it is not prevented under any circumstances, the maneuver of the fire defense.
Article 944. . It is prohibited in the area, the entry of motorized vehicles, capable of generating sparks, without prior security measures.
(b) Defenses in ethyl alcohol storage tanks or similar fuelsArticle 945. . This chapter deals with the storage of atmospheric pressure liquids and ambient temperature, and includes the groupings installed in the outdoor or under cover, at level or underground.
TANQUES A LEVEL S ACTUAL DEFENSES
Water against firesArticle 946. Las The following provisions will be applied to any storage done in any sector. When the capacity of a simple group exceeds 500 m3special measures shall be taken in any part thereof, in addition to the use of fire retardants.
Article 947. La The defense with water will be made up of a network that will feed special devices capable of achieving the cooling of any burned unit, achieving locate and circumscribe the area affected by the fire.
Article 948. Los Moisturizers or pythons and other fixed and/or portable devices (hands, spears, etc.) will be arranged in number and distribution so that they can concentrate on a tank on its roof and envelope, a water flow not less than 30 liters per hour and per m2 tank surface, including roof and envelope, should not take more than 8 minutes in emergency.
Article 949. . To attend to this service, pumping equipment will be able to supply the water necessary for the attack, plus the water that requires the own cooling services in the tanks neighboring to the larger tank of the grouping.
Article 950. Para For facilities with storage above 1,500 m3, reserve equipment with independent energy source will be required.
Article 951. Las Water reserves will be sufficient to serve the service for a minimum of 4 hours on a continuous basis to full pumping capacity.
Article 952. La The distribution of hydrants and pythons will be such that it is not necessary to extend more than 120 meters a line of hoses and the water pressure will not be less than 7 kg./cm2 at any point, when you operate the group of moisturizers or pitons or other devices that defend the area where the larger tank of any group is located. In addition, they will fill the condition of a supply of 15 litres of water per minute to 7 pressure atmospheres in water jets with a minimum range of 15 meters, per 100 m3 storage capacity.
Special flame retardant serviceArticle 953. El The special flame retardant service will consist of auxiliary, fixed, semi-fixed or portable equipment, designed to complement the safety of the installations by applying chemical or mechanical foam, water vapor, carbon dioxide or other chemical agents as best suits the current practices of the technique.
Article 954. . When there is no possibility of defense with firewater service, it can be replaced by special flame retardant service based on chemical agents of recognized effectiveness.
Article 955. Los Special flame retardant service equipment based on flame retardant agents by protective foam formation will be provided with a capacity such as the formation of a 30 cm mantle. per m2 on the liquid surface of the total of the flammable contained in the tanks and/or containers, whether or not covered, in the open or under gallons.
This requirement will be supplemented by ensuring that this fireproof service can be kept for at least two hours for the alleged burning major tank.
Article 956. Los Fireproof agent services will be provided to each tank with fixed installations, operated from convenient distance, and located outside the containment enclosures. This service will not be installed in the ceiling structure and none of its training chambers will have a flow of more than 10,000 litres of protective foam per minute, and the total area must be covered within a maximum of 30 minutes. The installation will be able to be operated within 7 minutes of the fire, maximum.
Article 957. . The supply of fire-defense water and the one required for fire-fighting agents should be added to set the capacity of or of fire-fighting water pumping groups.
Article 958. . Vapor sockets, carbon dioxide batteries or other extinguishers may be applied for special cases that will be resolved according to the standards of the technique. for small foci will be located extintors in strategic places.
Article 959. . To reduce the caloric potential of fire-affected areas, special flammable movement facilities will be planned to evacuate their volumes.
Article 960. El The flame retardant service will be required in any grouping of more than 1,000 m3 capacity.
Tanks at level or high s Passive Defenses s Minimum distances between tanksArticle 961. . The distance between tanks, or between tanks and other installations, will be at least the diameter of the nearest larger tank measured from tank wall to tank wall or installation limit, whatever it is.
Article 962. s Groups or storages of more than 10,000 m will not be admitted3 in one enclosure. Identically they will not be allowed in the clusters, tanks of more than 2,000 m3.
Rule 963. s When it comes to tanks of more than 10,000 m3, prior agreement of the Competent Agency will be required.
Article 964. , In every park, any tank will be at least remote:
(a) From the concession limit de 15 meters
(b) General railways 15 meters
(c) From neighboring industrial facilities 2 2 times to the diameter of the larger tank
(d) Of surrounding forests s 150 meters
Article 965. Los Tanks that are opposed to pressures higher than atmospheric, will be located and distanced according to special rules that must be approved by the Competent Agency.
Article 966. . Particular attention will be paid to the dangers that the surrounding areas may pose, particularly port areas, whose requirements will be subject to prior consideration by the Competent Agency.
Article 967. Las The pumping and loading or unloading of tankers, wagons or tankers will take into account in terms of distances, the special forecasts advised by the competent jurisdictional authorities and will also contemplate safeguarding public safety.
ArrestArticle 968. La The fraction of the land used for the installation of storage tanks should be in depth with respect to the circumvecino level or be surrounded by a terraplén of claimed surface of at least 0.50 m. wide in the coronation, or by hermetic concrete walls whose foundations resist the static pressure of the liquid resulting from the eventual spill.
Article 969. . The volume of containment of the compounds or the terraplens will not be less than 75% of the nominal storage capacity when it is 1 or 2 tanks, of 70% when it is 3; of 60% when it is 4 and 50% when it is 5 or more.
Article 970. . The endications achieved with the terraplens of containment, and which constitute the mass graves of the tanks, will have a capacity not less than the geometric volume of it, capable of containing the tanks installed in its enclosure. They will also have at least 50% of their perimeter accessible to active defense teams.
Article 971. . These trainings will have access stairs built in incombustible material of a minimum width of one metre to facilitate maneuvers and access to the enclosure.
Article 972. . They will be protected from the action of the waters and the winds and, instead, the minimum height must be set according to the main height of the area.
Article 973. La The supply of cooling water in the summer will not cause to reduce the volume of containment or reduce the requirements set by the distances.
Article 974. . Where there are difficulties for active defenses there will be increased distances.
Article 975. . In the deposits and other facilities, endication will be provided if the characteristic of the facilities in question is advised.
Article 976. Todos All elements for addiction will be incombustable.
Article 977. Toda All affluent or effluent tanks, which contain flammable, when crossing the terraplens, must ensure the seams of the waste containment enclosure.
Article 978. . Inflammable or explosive materials and even empty or full drums will not be stored on the safety strips of the tank park or its paths.
General provisionsArticle 979. El The storage park will be surrounded by incombustible fences.
Article 980. Todo All tanks, before being put into service, will be guaranteed their resistance and pondness and will be tested 24 hours in a water-filled situation to check that there are no visible or hidden losses.
Article 981. . Tanks will be built so that in case of explosion or fire, the overpressure can disappear by blast of the ceiling without it originating from spill. The summit must be carried out in such a way that it only serves the purposes of hermeticism, but not those of resistance.
Article 982. . Tanks will not be interconnected by rigid structures of any nature, be covered by bridges, walkways, stairs of access, etc., in order to avoid deformations in containers for improper efforts.
Article 983. . Security device will be provided against dangerous overpressures and depressions.
The tank vent elements will have their outdoor output, including measurement devices. The filling, suction and drainage pipes must have protected their outings outside, against the entry of foreign bodies and will be ammunitions of devices arrestedallamas of stainless mesh.
Article 984. . Annually it will be certified that the installation has the necessary security.
Article 985. . Tanks will have a safe take to the ground against electrical phenomena that can cause sparks. The crates connected to these tanks will have a special ground grab arranged every 15 meters.
Article 986. . When tanks are placed inside gallons surrounded by terraplens or in the deep part of the terrain, such galpones must be totally incombustible and will require the same resulting well ventilated.
Article 987. Las The lighting facilities will be of the safe type against explosions, unless they are installed on the roads surrounding the parks where tanks are grouped.
Article 988. . It will not be done in tank parks, any work that can originate sparks, or ignition or fire points, or reheating, without taking prior and special safety measures aimed at evicting and avoiding any possibility of explosive atmosphere and especially in the interior of containers or tanks that have flammable content. They will conform to the rules of prevention of permanent validity that will be established as recommended by the usual practice.
Article 989. . If there are trenches for the passage of pipes, etc., or drainages, the same will be stagnant and design such that prevent the propagation of the fire and prevent the spills from being contained in their enclosures.
Tanks buried or undergroundArticle 990. The following will apply exclusively to tank parks consisting of buried tanks only and of an individual capacity greater than 100 m3. If there are high tanks, the above standards will be applied.
Article 991. . At least one metre of all neighboring liquids of any order must be separated and between tanks can be tolerated an approach of up to 40 cms.
They will be buried with respect to the summit, not less than a metre with the upper lids being protected against impacts or efforts, through adequate protections.
Article 992. . Special provisions shall be adopted to avoid the effects of transit and in particular motor vehicles.
Article 993. Las The underground tank beaches will be free of materials, etc., and with easy access for attack elements in the event of a fire.
Article 994. s Subterranean tanks over 100 m3 in batteries of more than 500 m3shall be subject to a prior security agreement with the competent jurisdictional authorities and approval of the Competent Agency.
Article 995. Las The facilities of pipes, pumps and other elements will conform to the general rules.
Article 996. . Moisturizers will be located in strategic locations and attentive to the importance of the installation itself and the existing in adjacent areas. Otherwise, and due to lack of water, precautionary measures will be taken on the basis of flame retardants in appropriate quantity and distribution. When inert gas cylinders are used, special measures will be taken to prevent them from being subjected to heat.
Article 997. The illumination and off-road installations will be stagnant, avoiding the possibility of sparks or arches.
Fire RolArticle 998. de Under the concept of "Rol de Incendios" are grouped the provisions related to the points that are described below, reaching the total of the facilities in which ethyl or similar flammable alcohol is manipulated:
(a) Planning of maneuvers to develop in case of fire anywhere in the facility.
(b) Organization of fire brigades and distribution of affected personnel.
(c) Detail of the necessary tools.
(d) Detail of the mobile fire attack material.
(e) Alarm system.
(f) Fire drills.
(g) Review and maintenance of active and passive defence facilities.
(h) In general, all necessary measures and means to ensure that in case of fire, the fire attack is done safely, quickly and efficiently.
Article 999. El The Fire Rol, as well as the Warnings and Alarms system, will form part of the defence documentation that is envisaged for the protection of these industrial facilities, including their auxiliaries.
The details of this organization will conform to the following requirements:
(a) The role of each person, the fate of each team or element, the constitution of the brigades, the availability of staff at any time and circumstances, the distribution of staff, the weekly instruction and all the details of other foreign aid in anticipation of a fire of magnitude will be fixed.
(b) The alarm signal code, the coordination of warnings and all other details will be set to avoid confusion.
(c) The role of facilities for emergency mobilization of medical transport, materials and services and coordination with official firefighters or volunteers will be set.
(d) The roles will be set in visible places to achieve a perfect orientation of the total staff.
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MANUFACTURED GAS PLANTEES DEFENSES LocationArticle 1.001. . Manufactured gas plants should be located in the industrial area of the locality in which they install or in areas away from densely populated centers and in each case approved by the competent agency.
ACTUAL DEFENSES
Water against firesArticle 1.002. . Manufactured gas production plants must have a network of fire water pipes independent of the industrial water network, with which they will eventually be able to interconnect, which will feed moisturizers for monitor hoses or fixed pitons and fog generators.
Article 1.003. El The number, distribution and location of all of these devices, will be those that are considered appropriate in each case, according to the importance and characteristics of the facilities to defend.
Article 1.004. . Devices should be installed so that at any point they can concentrate water jets, fog, etc., from independent sockets, in quantity and a suitable unit flow.
Article 1.005. La The power of this network will be ensured by two independent energy sources and water reserves, will be such that ensure continuous operation for a minimum of four (4) hours of the installation, working to the maximum of the capacity of pumping equipment, the pressure of the impulsion sources will be the one that ensures a minimum pressure of seven (7) Kgs./m2 in the most remote taking in the area that is most dangerous.
Article 1.006. Cada Each pumping equipment will have the capacity to maintain the defenses in optimal operating conditions according to this regulation.
Special flame retardant serviceArticle 1.007. . In the enclosures with storage tanks for liquid fuels the safety measures set out in Chapter III, corresponding to the storage of liquid fuels, should be provided.
Fire extinguishersArticle 1.008. . Fire extinguishers must be distributed, the number, features and location of which will be such that adequately meet the requirements of the installation. It is considered essential that the types required for Class B and C fires should be among the aforementioned extintoral devices.
Article 1.009. La The distribution of fire extinguishers in roofed environments will be carried out following the following guidelines and which should be understood as minimal measures.
Article 1.010. s In the tank buildings where there are no products such as nafta, kerosene and similar in cans or drums, or in workshops, offices, etc., there will be an extintor unit for every three hundred square meters (300 m2) of surface, should not be necessary to travel from any point of the place to protect, more than 20 meters to an extintor device.
Article 1.011. s In deposits where there are products such as nafta, kerosene and similar in cans or drums, electrical usins, boiler rooms, laboratories and similar, there will be an extintor unit every 200 square meters (200 m)2) of surface, it should not be necessary to travel from any point of the place to protect, more than fifteen meters (15 m.) to an exintortion apparatus: In these places a metal container with lid will be located, containing sand and two shovels, for use in case of possible spills or to suffocate incipient fires.
Article 1.012. El The type of extinct device to be placed in each environment will depend on the nature of the probable fire according to the nature of the material to be defended.
Special devices and measuresArticle 1.013. . In all premises containing equipment for production, pumping, gas refurbishment measurement, the necessary means should be foreseen to avoid through proper ventilation the possible accumulations of gases or vapors in hazardous concentrations.
Article 1.014. El The construction material of the entire facility must be incombustable, with the exception of those equipment which in due course require its use (e.g.: purifiers) and in which the surveillance must be extreme, taking special safety measures.
Article 1.015. La The provision of coal batteries and precautionary measures to be taken to prevent fires in them shall be in accordance with the provisions of the corresponding Mineral Fuel Regulations.
Article 1.016. . The necessary measures should be taken to minimize the accumulation of coal dust, in those of the transporters, to ensure proper ventilation and all the closure mechanisms operated by fuses should be maintained in perfect operating conditions. In the galleries or tunnels of the conveyors that by their large length can act from fireplace and thus replace the rapid spread of the fire, vertical displays should be installed at intervals approximately 30 meters to avoid the air currents.
Article 1.017. Toda Any electrical installation, whether of motor force, lighting or for any other purpose, must be of the safe type against explosions, and must also put in each case, the most convenient devices to ensure the discharge of static electricity.
Fire RolArticle 1.018. El The Fire Rol of Manufactured Gas Plants should be in line with the general provisions set out in Chapter II on Oil Distilleries.
CHAPTER XI
DEFENSES IN GASOMETROS ALMACENAJE INSTALATIONSArticle 1.101. s They should preferably be located in industrial zones and at the following minimum distances:
| Metros | |
| To external railway lines | 25 |
| To own buildings and internal railway lines | 6 |
| Industrial buildings and fuel tanks | 50 |
| To buildings, homes, etc. | 25 |
| To public buildings, meeting places for more than 150 people | 150 |
| To public roads | 15 |
| Between gasometers | |
| Low pressure, less than 5,000 cubic meters | 6 |
| Increased capacity | 10 |
| High and low pressure | 20 |
Open fire locomotives entering the plants should not approach less than 25 meters from the edges of the tanks, and from the walls of the tanks.
ACTUAL DEFENSES
Article 1.102. . Dry-type gasometers should be provided, on the roof, with water distribution devices, in order to establish a rain that bathes the walls of the same, for emergencies.
Article 1.103. . In the gasometer platforms mentioned in the previous article, water intakes will be installed for hoses, whose amount is related to the characteristics of the gasometer.
Special devices and measuresArticle 1.104. . Lock valves in input and output connections must be very easy to access and be arranged in such a way that their manoeuvre can be performed safely and easily in case of sinisters.
Article 1.105. . Siphones should be cleaned periodically and carefully inspected when repairs are required.
Article 1.106. . The withdrawal of gasometer service for cleaning and/or repairs, as well as the putting, in service of the gasometers, must be done taking the necessary orders to ensure that at no time there is or can be produced a mixture of gas and air of explosive proportion. This will be recorded in a record that will be broken at that time, which will be signed by those who have authorized their qualifications. The state or private company responsible for such storage will carry a record record, signed by the Competent Authority, where they will be established by number of correlative order.
Article 1.107. . At extremely low temperature the necessary measures should be taken in order to avoid freezing water on hydraulic seals.
Article 1.108. . The constant volume gasmeters should be provided with safety valves whose dimensions will depend on the characteristics of the container and working conditions.
Fire RolArticle 1.109. . It should be organized on the basis of the general guidelines established in Chapter II . Oil distilleries.
CHAPTER XII
_ LocationArticle 1.201. . No compressor station connected to a pipeline can be built in a residential area or in an area restricted by urban regulations. The distance between any installed power compressor plant above 1,000 H. P. designed to operate at pressures above 17.5 Kg./cm2 and any building occupied by people who are not under the control of the company owned by it, may not be less than 150 m. The minimum distance in case the compressor plant operates with pressures exceeding 17,5 Kg./cm2 and its installed power is less than 1,000 H. P., it will be 75 m., having in each case the location to be approved by the competent agency.
Article 1.202. Toda Any installation of any electrical device within a compressor or metering plant should be of the safe type against explosions.
Article 1.203. Todas All gas compressor plants should have efficiently connected to the ground all their metal installations (galpones, pipes, etc.), using for it copper cables that will end in a proper land grab, to eliminate static currents and eventually lead to ground atmospheric discharges.
Copper cables must be connected by appropriate terminals that must be soldiers with bronze, copper or silver.
ACTUAL DEFENSES
Article 1.204. . Compressor plants will be properly defended with adequate water systems and extintoral devices.
Article 1.205. Las The compressor, regulator and usine rooms installed in compressor plants will be constructed in such a way that they offer the minimum resistance to the waves formed in case of explosion and non-fuel materials.
Article 1.206. . The premises mentioned in the previous article should be built, in addition, with efficient ventilation to prevent gas accumulation.
Article 1.207. . The heating equipment, steam boilers or other implements that work with open flame should be located in a position and distance such that it makes them operating safely inside the plant.
Article 1.208. . Constructions and assemblies in compressor room will be made entirely in incombustible material.
Article 1.209. . The compressor, regulator and metering plants will be provided with adequate and efficient lighting, especially in places where the staff should perform more commonly manoeuvres. In a similar way you should illuminate the perimeter fence of the plant.
Article 1.210. . Special attention should be paid to the disposal of waste, pasture or other fuel materials in the vicinity of the buildings, thus avoiding any danger of external fire that could spread inside them.
Article 1211. Las The appropriate municipalities should communicate to the gas companies as long as a major gas plant is going to build a major building or factory, so that the company can take the corresponding measures to avoid inconvenience to the main gas pipes and other facilities.
Fire RolArticle 1.212. El The Fire Rol should be organized in a manner similar to that of the distilleries and according to the importance of the facilities to protect (Chapter II - Oil Distilleries).
CHAPTER XIII
DEFENSES IN ALMACENAJE AND DISTRIBUTION OF LICUED GAS Recipient of storageArticle 1.301. . The storage of the product will be made in metal tanks whose test pressure will be for fixed tanks not less than 1.5 (once and a half) the working pressure and for portable tanks not less than 2 (twice) such pressure.
Article 1.302. . Each tank will carry on the head next to the level indicator a horizontal strip painted red indicating the maximum limit of filling, having to carry next to it the following inscription in black: maximum level allowed.
Article 1.303. . In the absence of a common-type indicator, an automatic device should be provided to indicate the percentage of filling according to the temperature and density of the product and to have the red strip and the registration provided in the previous article.
Article 1.304. . Each tank must be provided with at least two safety valves, connected directly to the tank in combination with the other similar tanks. The safety valves will start the discharge between 90 and 100% of the design pressure and its dimensions will be proportionate to those of or of the tanks they serve.
As a recommendation, three-way or multiple interlocking valves may be interspersed when the design permits and provided that the service of a safety valve is continuously secured.
ACTUAL DEFENSES
Article 1.305. Los Gas cylinders that are intended for domestic consumption will be controlled very especially in their load to avoid filling. To this end, the filling load must be checked with double weight of the cylinder.
Article 1.306. Los Gas storage tanks must be supplied with water sprayers in order to cool them in case of fires nearby.
Article 1.307. Las The beaches of storage and packaging of cylinders should be provided with a convenient system of fire water with fixed pitons and mobile elements that ensure at all times the possibility of spraying any area of the beach with a flow not less than 1 m3/h. by cylinder. The installation of water sprayers on these beaches is advisable.
Article 1.308. Todas All packaging gas storage and distribution plants should be equipped with enough suitable extintoral devices, located in strategic locations. These extinguishers will preferably be dry chemical powder (driven by nitrogen or carbon dioxide) or carbon dioxide. The auxiliary facilities (workshops, offices, etc.) will be equipped with extintoral devices, following the guidelines set out in Article 1.010.
Article 1.309. . Tanks and cylinders for users, both domestic and industrial, will be installed taking maximum security in each case, for which special rules will be dictated according to their use and application.
Article 1.310. ). When for any reason (cleanness, repair, etc.). A tank must be removed from service, all necessary orders will be taken to ensure that at no time there is a mixture of air gas within it, which can by any circumstance provoke the formation of explosive mixture while working. This will be authorized in a record to be signed by the head of the Plant.
Article 1.311. Toda Any electrical installation in Plants of Storage and Distribution of Gas Packaging, will be safe against explosions.
Article 1.312. Todas All plants of storage and distribution of packed gas must have efficiently connected to the ground all their metal installations (galpones, pipes, etc.).
Article 1.313. Las Cylinder beaches and storage tanks should be at least distanced as follows:
| To external railway lines | 25 m. |
| To own buildings and internal railway lines | 6 m. |
| Industrial buildings and fuel tanks | 50 m. |
| To public buildings meeting places for more than 150 people | 150 m. |
| Buildings, homes, etc. | 25 m. |
| To public roads | 15 m. |
Open fire locomotives entering the plants should not approach less than 25 meters from the edges of tanks and tank walls.
Article 1.314. . It should be provided to the packaging gas storage plants, adequate and efficient lighting, especially in places where the staff performs most commonly manoeuvres. In addition, the perimeter fence of the plants indicated will be efficiently illuminated.
Fire RolArticle 1.315. El The Fire Rol should be organized in a manner similar to that of the distilleries and according to the importance of the facilities to protect (Chapter II - Oil Distilleries).
CHAPTER XIV
_Article 1.401. Los Equipment in general must satisfy in their construction and maintenance, the following security conditions:
(a) Gasogens and their connecting pipes should be built and assembled in such a way that they do not suffer dangerous deformations during their normal use.
(b) In particular, assembly boards should not be exposed to such efforts that may lead to an air inlet or a gas leak.
(c) The installations should be protected by an appropriate device against the risk of internal explosion caused by the engine's return of flames.
Article 1.402. . The closed premises in which gastrogens are installed should have a ventilation that ensures maximum airing in the vicinity of the equipment, and carbon oxide detectors should be installed that will trigger alarm devices when the gas reaches dangerous concentrations.
CHAPTER XV
DEFENSES ON COMBUSTIBLE ALMACENAMIENT PLATES UNDER MINERAL Location and capacity of the beachesArticle 1.501. Los Mineral solid fuel storage tanks will be located in the industrial zones of each locality or in areas away from the populated centers.
Article 1.502. . Solid mineral fuels can be stored in the vicinity of their place of consumption, without limitation, if the installation is located in industrial zone or away from the perimeter of the town center, but in quantity not greater than three thousand tons (3,000 tons).
Special devices and measuresArticle 1.503. Las The beaches for the storage of solid mineral fuels located in enabled areas should be fenced in all its perimeter with incombustible and sufficiently solid material walls. They will have a height not less than 4 meters in order to avoid the effects of coal dust, by wind action and the spread of fires. In other cases they may be surrounded by wire fences of a height not less than three meters.
Article 1.504. . The floors of the storage beaches will have natural drainage of the waters and will be built in a firm and homogeneous material to form a compact surface, in order not to allow the circulation of the air.
Article 1.505. . The beaches of solid mineral fuel storage should have space available, whether in streets or beaches of maneuvers, which will serve for the removal of fuel in case of fire or when the battery temperature rises to dangerous values (more than 60o C), except in the case of having adequate mechanical elements.
Article 1.506. . The free spaces mentioned in the previous article will occupy at least 20% of the total surface intended for storage and will be arranged so that the mechanical element referred to in the following article reaches the stack in its entire extension.
Article 1.507. . The beaches or deposits containing more than 5,000 tonnes of coal should have in sufficient quantity, mechanical elements for their removal; rolling bridges, cranes, drag shovels or any other similar installation.
Article 1.508. . The coal will be deposited in batteries in a prismatic way, avoiding the formation of cones so that the separation between the thin and thick part of it does not occur. The batteries should be compact in order to prevent air circulation.
Article 1.508. . The coal will be deposited in batteries in a prismatic way, avoiding the formation of cones so that the separation between the thin and thick part of it does not occur. The batteries should be compact in order to prevent air circulation.
Article 1.509. . Preferably, coal should not be stacked with warm time as it can enter combustion for such cause.
Article 1.510. . The charcoals of different origins should not preferably be stacked in a common stack.
Article 1.511. . A particularly wet coal landing should not - preferably - stack with another.
Article 1.512. . The inclusion of foreign materials should be avoided, which are the cause of numerous fires, even in the case of anthracite, which is usually not subject to spontaneous inflammation.
Article 1.513. . After storage, the temperature of the stack should be determined regularly by means of thermometers installed in crates. Temperature control is required in warm areas from three to six metres. Temperature determination from 50o to 60o C indicates imminent danger and measurements in the vicinity of these points should be made every 1.5 meters. In the event that hot sites cannot be located, fuel gas detectors will be used.
Article 1.514. . For temperatures above 60o C the coal should be excavated. Water spraying should only be done as an extreme resource.
Article 1.515. s As a safety measure, the following heights will be adopted for storage batteries:
Fine carboon with more than 18 % mat. volatiles up to 3.5 m
Coal with more than 18 % mat. volatiles up to 5.5 m
Fine carboon with less than 18 % volatile up to 5.5 m
Coal with less than 18 % volatile up to 7.0 m
Article 1.516. . For the purposes of the previous article, consider fine coal when its size is less than 10 mm and thick coal when its size is more than 10 mm.
General provisionsArticle 1.517. . In the offices of the beaches or storage tanks, a special book will be held in which the existence of each type of mineral solid fuel stored, the movement in the month, the temperature records and the state of the mechanical installations will be recorded.
CHAPTER XVI
ELECTRIC GENERGY PLANTSArticle 1.601. . The design and execution of the power plants will be made according to the rules established by the jurisdictional authority.
Active and Passive DefensesArticle 1.602. . A minimum of measures will be ensured to defend the installations against sinisters for which it will have extinct devices and other devices, whose type, location, quantity and capacity will contemplate the volume and characteristics of the facilities. The measures envisaged should be subject to the approval of the Competent Agency.
Article 1.603. Las Fuel storage beaches, whether liquid, solid or gaseous, intended to feed boilers and engines of power-generating plants, will be designed and built ).in what for the purposes of this regulation refers to). according to the provisions established for the storage of liquid, solid and gaseous fuels (Chapter III, XI, XIII and XV).
Fire RolArticle 1.604. . Involves the Fire Rol, the planning of maneuvers to develop in case of fire, the organization of brigades and the distribution of the personnel affected to them, the detail of the mobile fire attack material, the detail of the necessary tools, the alarm systems, the organization of drills, the periodic review of security devices, etc.
To this end, power plants will maintain a special training of their personnel, which will be suited for any eventuality, taking as basic rules to act in any case:
(a) Disconnection of the circuits directly affected, in such a way as to avoid paralyzing the rest of the services.
(b) Immediate electrical isolation of affected parties, using special rules and devices to that end.
CHAPTER XVII
GENERAL PROVISIONSArticle 1.701. . The adoption of the security measures set out in this regulation is mandatory throughout the country for the new installations, as well as the extensions of the existing ones, for the production, transformation and storage of liquid, gaseous and solid mineral fuels and in the power generating plants.
Article 1.702. La The present regulation governs for accumulations higher than TRES MIL METROS CUBICOS (3,000 m3) for fuel oil, gas oil or diesel oil; MIL QUINIENTS METROS CUBICOS (1,500 m3) for flammable liquids or light liquid fuels; MIL (1,000) units of CUARENTA and CINCO KILOGRAMOS (45 kg) of liquefied carbon and MIL
The production and processing facilities for petroleum, natural gas or manufactured products, regardless of their capacity, are covered by this regulation.
Any hydrocarbon storage in any form and its associated facilities that are below the above-established figures shall be governed by the regulations issued by the Competent Agency, without prejudice to the security arrangements determined by the local municipalities, as soon as they do not object to the regulations governing the application of the technical and security specifications, which the Competent Agency determines in respect of the compliance and application of these regulations.
(Article replaced by art. 1 Decree No. 401/2005 B.O. 4/5/2005).Article 1.703. . The approval by the Competent Agency of the specifications of the security measures established under this regulation shall be a mandatory and precondition for the qualification of the respective facilities in accordance with Article 1.702. The documentation must be submitted in full and for five years.
Article 1.704. La The technical documentation referred to in the previous article must be signed by a responsible technician.
Article 1.705. . The existing ban is maintained regarding the flight of aircraft of any kind, on distilleries and storage tank parks with units at level or high.
Article 1.706. Las Existing facilities that are not in the security conditions established by these regulations shall be adapted to the same and, failing that, the competent agency shall fix the security measures appropriate to the characteristics and operating conditions of the same. In both cases, it shall determine the time limits on which the necessary works should be completed for this purpose.
Article 1.707. . It is perfectly established by the efficiency of the state of operation or maintenance of the security facilities in the state or private establishments, it is a custodial responsibility of the same, which will be verified by the Competent Authority with the pericity that it deems necessary. This measure includes the effectiveness of the coordination systems that are used for greater safety with the official firefighters or volunteers.
Article 1.708. El The Competent Agency may provide for special security measures where reasons of particular danger advise it.
Article 1.709. . When new solutions are offered by evolution of the technique, the Competent Agency will monitor the evidence and adopt the forecasts it deems appropriate.
