4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR FIRE CHIEFS IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

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4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR FIRE CHIEFS IN
THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
The latest technologies being used by
fire-fighters to pre-plan, train, and use in real
time emergency mitigations

• Iain Cooke
• Technical Director

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Exploiting spatial systems in industrial
firefighting
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What are spatial systems (GIS)?
Some base technologies A lightning tour
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Are these IT systems more than just a map?
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Hydrants / Equipment
Site drains / pipelines
Products (Oil, Chemical, Gas)
Gas modelling
Satellite/aerial imagery
Your plant / Facility
Information Visualisation and Decision Support
Tools
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Planning and Preparation

• Can you see
• if you have adequate water?
• the risk of escalation / spread?
• if hose runs and equipment will be effective?
• water management issues?
• what scenarios you have planned for?
• the environment a plume will cover?
• Spatial systems make it clearer

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Incident Response

• When an incident happens
• Can you quickly locate
• information on special risks?
• pre-planned information and advice?
• hydrants, sumps, drains and their connections?
• Spatial systems make it faster, easier, clearer
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• Easy to provide to incoming teams

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Level within company
4. Place booster pumps
1. See heat contour impact upon plant
2. Position response equipment
3. Measure hose runs
Fire Chief
Planning and Response
Benefit Visualise your response when
pre-planning
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Level within company
Fire Chief
5. Measure the tank footprint
6. Calculate foam requirement
Benefit Tools to speed scenario planning
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Level within company
Fire Chief
7. Calculate bund / dyke capacity
Benefit Tools to speed scenario planning
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Level within company
Fire Chief
7. Retrieve pre authored pre-plan document
Benefit Incident location provides access to
plans
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Level within company
Fire Chief
9. Model gas dispersion to determine impact
Benefit Quick and easy correlation with
environment
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Away from the heat

• Access data of many sites over the web
• See incidents and history
• See status of tanks and product
• Information for decision making in the wider
  context

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Level within company
1. View data for more than one facility
2. See live Storage Tank volume data
Regional Crisis Manager
Understanding the big picture
Benefit Calculate the cost of a Tank fire
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Level within company
Regional Crisis Manager
Example COST ANALYSIS OF 10HR FIRE
Cost of Foam per litre () No .of Litres required Sub total () Cost of effluent disposal () No. of Litres Sub Total ()
6.00 100,000 600,000 2.08 150,000 312,000
Total Cost Total Cost Total Cost 912,000 912,000 912,000
Value of Product per litre () No .of Litres in Storage Tank Sub total () Cost of replacing assets Cost of public opinion Sub Total ()
1.12 3030m3 x 1198 3631636 4,067,433 1560,000 1,200,000 2,760,000
Total Cost Total Cost Total Cost 6,827,433 6,827,433 6,827,433
6,827,433 - 912,000 5,915,433
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Level within company
Example COST ANALYSIS OF 84HR FIRE (BUNCEFIELD)
Regional Crisis Manager
Cost of Foam per litre () No .of Litres required Sub total () Cost of effluent disposal () No. of Litres Sub Total ()
6.00 786,000 4,716,000 2.08 68,000,000 141,440,000
Total Cost Total Cost Total Cost 146.15 MILLION 146.15 MILLION 146.15 MILLION
Value of Product per litre () No .of Litres in Storage Tank Sub total () Cost of replacing assets Cost of public opinion Sub Total ()
1.12 45000 m3 x 1198 52 MILLION LITRES 60,379,000 60,000,000 ESTIMATED 20,000,000 80,000,000
Total Cost Total Cost Total Cost 140.4 MILLION 140.4 MILLION 140.4 MILLION
-5,750,000
146.15M - 140.4M
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Conclusion

• A different and powerful way of managing
  information
• Maps are a very intuitive paradigm
• Big potential, lots of possibilities
• But
• The system wont create the information!

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Questions?

• For further information
• www.tadpoletechnology.com/gsd
• www.door-way.com