Using data from hurricanes Ike and Harvey and from the Houston Ship Channel, they illustrate potential atmospheric pollutants during and after a disaster. When aboveground storage tanks fail ...

The report states the incident occurred when an accidental release of butane-enriched naphtha product accumulated and ignited near a large aboveground atmospheric storage tank, known as Tank 80-8.

Intercontinental Terminals Co. has agreed to pay more than $6.6 million to compensate for the natural resource damages caused by the 2019 fire at its Deer Park terminal, federal and state ...

except for the particular type of tank where the leak occurred. The atmospheric storage tank exemption has been an issue for years now, a factor not just in the ITC fire but in other explosions ...

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issued similar warnings in 1997 after explosions occurred during hot work in or on aboveground atmospheric storage tanks filled with flammable vapors. Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...

The computational model, according to atmospheric scientist Rob Griffin ... "what if" consequences of future storms that threaten storage tanks or chemical spills in general.