Graduate School of Engineering Science and Technology National Yunlin University of Science & Technology Doctoral Dissertation

• Main Authors: Hung-Cheng Chou, 周鴻呈
• Other Authors: Chi-Min Shu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91503689268538678685

博士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 工程科技研究所 === 104 === The importance of the petrochemical industry cannot be overstated. It is the basis of people's livelihood and modern society is very dependent on it. However, over the long-term operation harmful factors may become involved in storage and manufacturing facilities due to the flammable, explosive, toxic and corrosive properties of materials in this industry. A series of industrial accidents including fires, explosions and air pollution occurred in Formosa Petrochemical Company’s and Chinese Petroleum Corporation’s domestic factories between 2010 and 2011 which immediately caused nearby residents to oppose those plants. Thus, to being the focus of national public opinion, those events also resulted in inestimable losses of social resources as well as industrial materials, equipment and orders. The increasing number of fire disasters at petrochemical plants have caused great anxiety in the public as well as social attention. The firefighting crews, essentially working in disaster relief, can only directly save the dangerous petrochemical substances and reduce losses, but have difficulty dealing with easily-derived secondary disasters caused by pollution due to the quick spread of a large number of highly hazardous chemical leaks. Therefore, this study collected data from Yulin County Fire Department on the fires that occurred at Formosa Petrochemical Complex and, based on the fire investigations, analyzed the risks of fire and explosion of those incidents and proposed further risk factors as well as evaluated the probability of fire occurrence by fault tree analysis. In addition, this study, using the viewpoint of risk management, promoted the concept of prevention being better than disaster relief with an expectation to minimize explosion risk and fire damage.