{"id":881,"date":"2024-07-21T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/?p=881"},"modified":"2025-01-11T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T04:55:10","slug":"handling-and-storage-of-lpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/21\/handling-and-storage-of-lpg\/","title":{"rendered":"Handling and Storage of LPG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"436\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-12-201439.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-12-201439.png 436w, https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-12-201439-300x259.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Mainly contain propane and butane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Explosion and fire are the main hazards associated with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022They exist as gas in ambient condition but can be liquefied under little pressure and on release of this pressure, they again becomes gases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Stored as liquid and transmitted by high pressure pipeline for industrial and domestic use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Water is not good extinguisher for LPG as its vapor density is 0.5 when it is liquid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022LEL and UEL is 2 to 10%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Its flame can travel back to the source giving flash back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022It can cause cold burn to the skin due to its rapid vaporization and lowering the temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Its very high concentration in air, in anesthetic and on dilution, it becomes asphyxiate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Heavy leaks give hissing sound or icing in the area of leak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Small leaks may be detected by soap solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Never use naked flame to detect it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022In empty tank may still contain LPG vapor and if air enters in empty tank, it can form explosive mixture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Therefore it must be purged by inert gas first and gas test should be made before doing any work on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2022Location and other Safety Aspects:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022LPG tanks should be sited on or under ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022LPG vessels should not be stored on one above other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Storage surface should be well concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Slope to be given to the ground beneath the vessels, to drive away any dripping or leakage toward a safe area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Catchments pit should be 3 meter away from LPG storage area<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handling and storage of LPG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[12,21,354,6,13,8,353,20,19,3],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safety-blog","tag-accident","tag-gujaratsafetycouncil","tag-handling-and-stroage-of-lpg","tag-hse","tag-industrial-accident","tag-industrial-safety","tag-lpg-cylinder","tag-pdis","tag-post-diploma-in-industrial-safety","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehs-hub.contentstudioo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}