Course Objective:

The participants will learn basic fire, explosion and How to fight oil industrial fires

Course Outline:

1. Overview of the basic principles of fire and explosion

1. Introduction
2. Fire characteristics
3. Characteristics of petroleum product
4. Chemistry of fire
5. A tetrahedron Fires
6. Stage of fire
7. Type of fire
8. Sources of Ignition
9. Explosion and explosives

2. Control of fire 

1. Fighting theory
2. Kind of fire extinguisher agents
3. Fire fighting equipment
4. Fire fighting tactics
5. Fire fighting system

3. How to fight oil industrial fires

1. Contained oil fires
2. Petroleum solid
3. Uncontained petroleum fires
4. Combination contained and uncontained fires
5. Liquefied petroleum gas fire
6. Pool fire
7. Flash fire
8. Vapor cloud
9. Floating roof tank fires
10. Fixed roof tank fire
11. Froth over
12. Control and prevent crude oil tank fire
13. Boil over
14. High vapor pressure fire

4. Case study

1. Union oil tank farm fire
2. Two-burner boiler explosion

Who Can Benefit?

Engineers and staff involved in oil industry and operations.