NATIONAL STANDARD

of
THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
中华人民共和国国家标准
GB 50160－92

Fire Prevention Code of Petrochemical Enterprise Design

(Partially Revised Articles in 1999)

石油化工企业设计防火规范
(1999 年局部修订条文)

Beijing 1999
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NATIONAL STANDARD
of
THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
中华人民共和国国家标准
GB 50160－92

Fire Prevention Code of Petrochemical Enterprise Design

石油化工企业设计防火规范

Edited by: China Petrochemical Industrial Company

Approved by: State Construction Ministry of P. R. China
Date of Enforcement: June 1, 1999

Beijing 1999
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State Construction Ministry, P. R. Of China

Jian-biao No. 64 (1999)

The Notice on Promulgation of No.21 Bulletin for

Partly Revision Clause of Construction Standard

Every related department of State Council, every construction commission and planning
commission of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central
government, every construction commission of the special planned cities and Xinjiang Production
and Construction Corps:

According to the requirements of the Notice on Promulgation of Establishment and Revision of

the National Construction Standard (the second batch) (jian-biao No. 244 [1998]), China
Petrochemical Company, joining with related departments have revised partly the national
standard Fire Prevention Code of Petrochemical Enterprises Design (GB50160-92). Now the
No.21 bulletin for partly revision clause is printed and distributed to you, please put into
enforcement. The details of the partly revised clause will be published recently on the journal
“Standardization Post of Engineering Construction”.

Attachment: No.21 bulletin for partly revision of construction standard

State Construction Ministry of P. R. China

March 17, 1999
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Attachment:

No.21 Bulletin for Partly Revision of Construction Standard

The state standard "Fire Prevention Code of Petrochemical Enterprises Design” (GB50160-92) has
been partly revised by Luoyiang Petrochemical Engineering Company, China Petrochemical
Company, and related companies. The standard has been jointly reviewed by related departments
which have been approved and will be put into enforcement from June 1, 1999. The former
corresponding clause of the code will be abolished meantime.

March 17, 1999

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Content

1 GENERAL.......................................................................................................................................2

3 AREA CLASSIFICATION AND PLANT OVERALL LAYOUT...............................................2

3.1 AREA CLASSIFICATION..........................................................................................................2

3.2 OVERALL LAYOUT.................................................................................................................3
3.3 IN-SITE ROAD........................................................................................................................7
3.4 IN-SITE RAILWAY...................................................................................................................7

4 PROCESS PLANT..........................................................................................................................7

4.2 IN-SITE LAYOUT....................................................................................................................7

4.4 PRESSURE RELIEF................................................................................................................11
4.5 FIRE-RESISTANCE PROTECTION............................................................................................11
4.6 OTHERS................................................................................................................................12

5 STORING AND TRANSPORTING FACILITIES.....................................................................12

5.1 GENERAL.............................................................................................................................12
5.2 ABOVE GROUND TANK OF COMBUSTIBLE LIQUID..............................................................12
5.3 ABOVE-GROUND LIQUEFIED HYDRO-CARBON, COMBUSTIBLE GAS AND COMBUSTION-
SUPPORTING GAS STORAGE TANK.......................................................................................................13
5.4 LOADING FACILITIES OF COMBUSTIBLE LIQUID, LIQUEFIED HYDRO-CARBON..................14
5.7 PUMP AND COMPRESSOR.....................................................................................................15
5.9 WAREHOUSE IN PLANT........................................................................................................15

6 COMBUSTIBLE LIQUID CONTAINING PROCESS WASTE-WATER PIPELINE,

WASTE-WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND CIRCULATING WATER STATION......................16

6.1 COMBUSTIBLE LIQUID CONTAINING PROCESS WASTE-WATER PIPELINE............................16

7 FIRE-FIGHTING..........................................................................................................................16

7.2 FIRE-FIGHTING STATION......................................................................................................16

7.3 FIRE-FIGHTING WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM.............................................................................16
7.4 LOW-POWER FOAM EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM.....................................................................20
7.6 STEAM SMOTHERING SYSTEM.............................................................................................21
7.7 INSTALLATION OF EXTINGUISHER........................................................................................21
7.8 FIRE ALARMING SYSTEM.....................................................................................................21
7.9 FIRE-FIGHTING FOR LIQUEFIED HYDROCARBON TANK FARM............................................22
7.10 FIRE-FIGHTING FOR OIL LOADING JETTY............................................................................23
7.11 FIRE-FIGHTING IN BUILDING................................................................................................24

8 ELECTRIC....................................................................................................................................25

8.1 POWER SUPPLY AND POWER DISTRIBUTION FOR FIRE-PREVENTION..................................25

8.2 LIGHTNING..........................................................................................................................25
8.3 STATIC GROUNDING.............................................................................................................25

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APPENDIX:

APPENDIX A TERM EXPLANATION

APPENDIX C EXAMPLES OF FIRE-HAZARD CLASSIFICATION FOR LIQUEFIED HYDROCARBON
AND COMBUSTIBLE LIQUID
APPENDIX D EXAMPLES OF FIRE-HAZARD CLASSIFICATION FOR CLASS A, B, C COMBUSTIBLE
SOLID
APPENDIX E EXAMPLES OF FIRE-HAZARD CLASSIFICATION FOR PROCESS PLANT AND UNIT

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1 General
1.0.2 The code is applicable for the fire-prevention design of a new, extension or
renovation project for a petrochemical plant based on petroleum, natural gas
and its product as feedstock.

1 Area Classification and Plant Overall layout

1.1 Area Classification
1.1.1 Fire-distance between petrochemical enterprise and the adjacent plants or
facilities shall not be less than the requirements in Table 3.1.7.
Definition of the starting point and ending point for fire-distance shall be in
compliance with the requirements of Appendix.F.
The fire-distance for elevated flare shall be determined through heat radiation
calculation; the fire-distance for elevated flare which may entraining
combustible liquid, shall not be less than the requirements in Table 3.1.7.
Table 3.1.7 Fire distance for petrochemical enterprise to adjacent plants or facilities (m)

Production area Liquefied Elevated Process unit or

Hydrocarbo flare facilities for
n Tank entraining Class A and
group Liquid- Class B
combustible

Adjacent plants and facilities

Residential Area, Public welfare facilities, 120 120 100

villages

Adjacent Industrial Plants (enclosure wall) 120 120 50

State Railway (center line) 55 80 45

Offsite inter-plant railway (center line) 45 80 35

State-level or Industrial zone level train 55 80 45

configuration station (railway centerline or
buildings)

Offsite highway (Road side) 25 60 20

Power Transformer or distribution

80 120 50
substation(enclosure wall)

1.5 times of the 1.5 times of the

Overhead power supply cablie (centerline) 80
tower height tower height

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Grade I. II. State overhead communication cable

50 80 40
(center line)

Embankment of navigation rivers(center line) 25 80 20

Note:
(1) The statement in the brackets refer to the starting/ending point.
(2) In case the adjacent facility is the on-shore part of a harbour, warehouse or stockyard of
very important goods, military facilities, airport etc., which has special requirement on the
fire-distance for petrochemical enterprise, relevant (stipulations) shall be adhered to.
(3) For Class C process plant or facilities, the fire distance can be reduced by 25% as for Class
A, B process plants or facilities.
1.2 Overall Layout
1.2.1 The fire-distance of petrochemical enterprise in overall layout, unless specified
otherwise, shall not be less than that stipulated in Table 3.2.11. The fire-
distance between process units or facilities (excluding tank groups), shall be
determined based on the closest equipment, buildings or structures. For the
definition of starting/ending point for fire-distance calculation shall be in
compliance with Appendix F.
The fire-distance of elevated flare shall be determined through heat radiation
calculations, for flare which may entrain combustible liquid, the fire-distance
shall not be less than that specified in Table 3.2.11.

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Table 3.2.11 Fire Distance of Overall Plot Plan for Petro-chemical Enterprise

Class A, B pump-house in Tank farm (Incl. Lead-adding and additive adding facilities as well as special-use
Plant Important Facilities
Item LHC storage Filling

Process Plant
Above-ground combustible liquid Tank
Tank LHC and Class AII , station

Transportation passage for feedstock and product(road side) Railway passage lane (centerline)
Full-freezing storage tank
Class AII , B, fixed- Floating-Roof Tank or Full-pressure Class B Liquid
roofing tank class C Fix-roof Tank storage tank

>500m3 to 1000m3

>500m3 to 1000m3

>100m3 to 1000m3
(Equipment, production house or warehouse)

>5000m3

>5000m3

>1000m3
≤500 m3 or Hor. tank
≤500 m3 or hor. tank
>1000m3 to 5000m3

>1000m3 to 5000m3

≤100 m3
Fire distance

(un-covered oil-separation basin) Waste-water Treatment unit

Combustible Gas Tank >1000m to 50000m3
Location of setting off Flame or sparkle

Class A goods warehouse or stockyard

Class AII , Class B liquid and combustible Gas
train Loading facilities,Tank-Truck washing station
3

substation

Remarks
Loading Area of wharf

Loading Area of truck

Item

LHC
A B C

30
A - - ②
25
Process Plant 25 20
B - ③
(Equipment, production house or warehouse) 20 15
20 15
C 10 ④
15 10
Plant Important Facilities 35 30 25 ⑤
Location of setting off flame or sparkles 30 25 20
Above-ground combustible liquid tank

>5000m3 50 40 35 50 40
Class AII, B
>1000m3 to 5000m3 40 35 30 40 35
fixed-roofing
>500m3 to 1000m3 30 25 20 35 30
tank
≤500 m3 or horizontal tank 25 20 15 30 25
①
>5000m3 35 30 25 35 30 See Table 5.2.7
④
Floating-Roof >1000m3 to 5000m3 30 25 20 30 25
Tank or class C >500m3 to 1000m 25 20 15 25 20
Fix.-roof Tank
≤500 m3 or horizontal tank 20 15 10 20 15

Full-pressure >1000m3 60 55 50 70 60 50 40 35 30 40 35 30 25 See Table 5.3.3

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Tank LHC storage

>100m3 to 1000m3 50 45 40 60 50 45 35 30 25 35 25 20 15
storage tank
3
≤100 m 40 35 30 45 40 40 30 25 20 30 20 15 10
Full-freesing storage tank
60 55 50 70 60 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30

Combustible Gas Tank >1000m3 to 50000m3 25 20 15 30 30 30 25 20 15 20 15 10 8 40 30 25 40 ④⑥

Loading area of jetty 35 30 25 40 35 50 40 35 30 40 35 30 25 55 45 40 55 25 -
LHC and Class AII, Truck loading station 25 20 15 30 25 25 20 15 10 20 15 12 10 45 35 30 45 15 20 - ④
Class B liquid Train loading facilities, tank-truck ⑦
30 25 20 35 30 25 20 15 10 20 15 12 10 50 40 35 50 20 25 15 10
washing station
LHC 30 25 20 35 30 35 30 25 20 25 20 17 15 45 40 35 45 20 30 20 25 -
Filling station Class AII, Class B liquid, CG and
25 20 15 30 25 30 25 20 15 20 15 12 10 40 35 30 40 15 25 15 20 - -
combustible supporting gas
Class A goods warehouse or stockyard 30 25 20 35 30 35 30 25 20 25 20 15 10 60 50 40 60 20 20 25 30 30 25 - ④⑧
Class A, B pump-house in tank-farm (incl., lead
adding and additive adding facilities as well as 20 15 10 20 15 20 15 12 10 15 12 10 8 35 30 25 35 15 15 10 12 25 20 20 - ④⑨
special-use substation)
Waste water treatment unit (un-covered oil-
30 25 20 35 30 30 25 20 20 25 20 20 20 40 35 30 40 25 40 25 30 30 25 30 20 - ④⑩
separation basin)
Railway passage lane (centerline), transportation
15 10 10 - - 20 15 12 10 10 15 10 10 25 20 15 25 10 10 10 15 (10) 10 10 10 10 10 - (11)
passage for feedstock and product (road side)
Elevated flare possibly entraining combustible liquid 90 90 90 90 60 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 60 90 50 (12)
Factory enclosure wall (centerline) 10 8 6 - - 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 6 8 10 10 10 8 10 -

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Note of Table 3.2.11

(1) Fire-distance between tank groups and other facilities is determined based on the tank with
the biggest volume;
(2) Fire-distance shall be determined based on the fire-hazard class of adjacent equipment, and
buidings; the numerator is applicable for petrochemical units; and the denominator is
applicable for refinery units.
(3) In case the product of one unit goes directly to other unit, the fire-distance in-between can be
reduced, but not less than 15m; or not less-than 10m for Class C units. Complex unit can be
considered as a single unit, the fire-distance of equipment, buildings shall be implemented in
accordance with Clause 4.2.1 of the code. For examples of classification of fire-hazard for
process plants or units inside plants, see Appendix E.
(4) In case process plants or facilities which possibly set off combustible gas are arranged
adjacently with direct-firing furnace of process plant, the fire-distance shall be determined as
to the location direct firing.
(5) For independent power transformer and distributing substation, work-shop office, etc., the
distance can be reduced by 25% (excluding flare).
(6) For tank with unit volume at or below 1000 m 3, it may be reduced by 25%; for tank with unit
volume above 5000 m3, it shall be increased by 25% (excluding flare).
(7) For Class C liquid, the distance can by reduced by 25% (excluding flare).
(8) This case includes warehouse of filled cylinders of combustible gas, or combustion-
supporting gases. For ware-house (shelter, stockyard) storing Class B, Class C goods, it may
be decreased by 25%; for stockyard of Class C combustible solid, it can by reduced by 50% (
apart from flare).
(9) Special-use pumps (or pump-houses) for tank group shall be arranged out side for fire-dike;
the fire-distance to tank groups is as following: Class A I, it shall not be less than 15m; for
Class AII, C, it shall not be less than 12m; for floating-roof tank groups, Class C tank groups,
not less than 10m (for tank with volume at or below 500m3, it shall not be less than 8m).
(10) For emergency liquid basin, the fire-distance can be determined as for wastewater treatment
unit (un-covered oil-separation basin). The fire-distance for sewage-oil tanks in waste-water
treatment unit may be reduced by 25%; the fire-distance for sewage-oil pumps (or pump-
houses in waste-water treatment unit may be reduced by 50% (excluding flare); the fire-
distance for other equipment or structures in waste-water treatment unit is not specified.
(11) Railway passage lane, transportation passage for feedstock and product shall be arranged
outside the fire-hazardous and explosion-hazardous area. The figure in bracket is applicable
for transportation passage for feedstock and product.
(12) For the fire-distance for elevated flare, see the text of Clause 3.2.11.

3.2.11A In case taking following fire-proofing measures, the fire-distance specified in

Table 3.2.11 may be reduced by a little:
A The fire-distance for for train loading facilities for Class AII and Class B
liquid may be reduced by 25% but shall not be less than 10m when hermetic
loading system is adopted;

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B The fire-distance for for truck loading facilities may be reduced by 25% but
shall not be less than 10m when measures is taken to prevent liquefied hydro-
carbon from being drained locally;
C The fire-distance for fixed-roof tanks may be determined the same as for
floating-roof tank in case nitrogen blanket has been applied for fixed-roof tank;
D The fire-distance for waste-water treatment unit may be reduced by 25%
when oil-separation basin is covered and there exist semi-fixed steam-
smothering system installed;
E For heating furnace, oven and direct-firing equipment, etc., the fire-distance
may be reduced by 25% in case there are inter-lock facilities of combustible-
gas concentration alarmer and steam- smothering screen.

1.3 In-site Road

1.3.1 For process units, liquefied hydro-carbon tank farms, oop fire-vehicle access
shall be designed; for combustible-liquid storage tank-farms and loading-areas,
chemicals warehouse, loop fire-vehicle access shall be designed; in case
restricted by topographical conditions, the dead end fire vehicle access with
turning-round yard may be acceptable also. The width of fire-vehicle access
shall be less than 6m, the turn-round radius of interior edge should not be less
than 12m; and the clearance above road shall not be less than 5m.

1.4 In-site Railway

1.4.1 In side train loading area for liquefied hydrocarbon, combustible liquid, the
distance from diesel locomotive to pick-arm of another platform shall meet
following requirements
A. The distance shall not be less than 12m for Class A, B loading-arm;
B. The distance shall not be less than 8m for Class C liquid.
In case adopting hermetic loading system for combustible liquid, the fire-
distance may be reduced by 25%.
1.4.1 In the train loading block for Class A, B, C, the fire-distance between two
adjacent loading-arms shall not be less than 10m; but for Class C combustible
liquid, it shall not be less than 7m;
In case adopting hermetic loading system for combustible liquid, the fire-
distance may be reduced by 25%.

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1 Process Plant
1.1 In-site Layout
1.1.2 The fire-distance of equipment, buildings unless specified in the code shall not
be less than the specification in Table 4.2.1.
.

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Table 4.2.1 Fire Distance of Overall layout for Equipment and Buildings (m)
Process equipment with the medium temperature is below ignition point Process equipment with

CR, substations, lab. Rms, office bldg., living rms

Direct firing equipment

LHC and CL liquid Class of

Class of CG gas
medium temperature at or
above igniting point

Comb. gas Intermediate storage tank, Other process Reactor lined Other process
Compressor or electric demineralization or equipment or rooms with inner hot- equipment or
compressor house dewatering tank insulation rooms

Class of CG gases
Class o LHC and CL

Class of LHC and CL - - - - AI AII, BI BII , CI AI AII, BI , BII , CI - -

Class of CG gas - A B - A B - A B - -
cntrl rms., substations, lab., rms, office bldg., living rms - - -
Direct firing equipment - - 15 -
Process equipment with CG gas compressor or - A 15 22.5 -
medium temperature compressor house ② - B 9 9 - -
below ignition point ① Intermediate storage tank, AI - 22.5 22.5 15 9 - - -
electric demineralization or AII, BI A 15 15 9 7.5 - - -
dewatering tank t ③ BII , CI B 9 9 7.5 7.5 - -
Other process equipment or its AI - 15 22.5 9 7.5 9 9 7.5 - - -

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rooms AII, BI A 15 15 9 - 9 9 7.5 - - -

BII , CI B 9 9 7.5 - 7.5 7.5 - - - -
Process equipment with Reactor lined with inner hot- - - 15 4.5 9 7.5 22.5 15 9 9 7.5 4.5 -
the medium temperature insulation
at or above igniting point Other process equipment or - - 15 4.5 9 4.5 15 9 9 7.5 4.5 - 7.5 -
rooms

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Note:
(1) 250℃ is assumed if the ignition point is unavailable

(2) The fire-distance for combustible gas compressor with unit drive power less than 150kW
may be determined as for “the other process equipment” in which the medium
temperature is below ignition point.

(3) The maximum volume of plant storage tank shall be in accordance with Clause 4.2.28.
The fire-distance may be determined as for “other process equipment” in which the
medium temperature is below ignition point on the condition that the unit volume of
storage tank is less than 50m 3 for liquefied hydrocarbon, 100m3 for combustible liquid,
200m3 for combustible gas.

(4) The water pond and oil separation pond containing combustible liquid can be
determined in accordance with the specifications of “other process equipment” in which
the medium temperature is below ignition point.

(5) The fire-distance for Class CII liquid equipment is not specified.

(6) The fire-hazard classification of equipment shall be determined by the fire-hazard

classification of materials that are handled, stored or transported. The fire-hazard
classification of buildings shall be determined by the highest fire-hazard class of the
equipment in the buildings.

4.2.4 This clause is deleted.

1.1.3 Equipment shall be placed in the open-air or semi-open-air, and the extent of
explosion hazardous area shall be reduced. The extent of explosion hazardous
area shall be determined in accordance with the current state-standard “Code
for Design of Electrical Installation in Explosion-hazardous and Fire-
hazardous Locations”.
In case required by process or restricted by nature conditions, some equipment
may be placed in-doors.
1.1.4 Plant control room shall be arranged in the same building with other rooms
involving Class A, BI equipment; if having to be arranged in the same building,
the control room shall be partitioned from the above-said rooms by fire-wall,
whose fire-resistance shall be Grade I. In case a room likely giving off sparkles
is adjacent with above-said room, the distance of doors or windows shall be in
accordance with current state standard “Code for Design of Electrical
Installation in Explosion-hazardous and Fire-hazardous Locations”.
1.1.5 The arrangement of plant control room, power transformer and distribution
substation, laboratory room shall be in accordance with following:
A. Control room, power transformer and distribution substation should be
arranged on the first floor of buildings; in case required by process or
restricted by other conditions, control rooms, power transformer and
distribution substation may be arranged on the second floor or higher.

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B. Inside the plant releasing heavier-than-air combustible gas, the indoors

grade of control room, power transformer and distribution substation, and
laboratory room shall be at least 0.6m above the outdoors grade.
C. The exterior wall of control room towards fire-hazardous equipment shall
be non-combustible solid wall without doors, windows or openings;
D. The primary instrument of the on-line analyzer for combustible gas,
liquefied hydro-carbon, combustible liquid must not be arranged inside
control room or laboratory room; in case the above said instruments are
placed in the room adjacent to the control rooms, laboratory rooms, the
partition wall shall be fire-proofing.
1.1.6 The control room for two or more units in a complex plant, the fire-distance to
Class A, Class B or direct-firing equipment shall not be less than 25m; the fire-
distance to Class C equipment shall not be less than 15m.
1.1.7 The design of combustible gas compressor arrangement and its house shall be
in accordance with following:
A. The combustible gas compressor should be arranged in a open or semi-
open house.
B. Class A combustible gas compressor house with unit power at or above 150
kW should not be arranged in the same building with other Class A, B and
C house; Class A, B and C equipment must not be placed above the
compressors, which is not subject to self-furnished lube-oil console.
C. On the ceiling of the open house or semi-open house for lighter-than-air
combustible gas compressor, forced ventilation measures shall be adopted.
D. Grated plate should be adopted for part of the compressor house floor for
lighter-than-air combustible gas.
E. On the ground of compressor house for heavier-than-air combustible gas,
trench or ditch should not be designed. In side compressor-house, there
shall be measures to prevent gas from accumulating.
1.1.8 Liquefied hydro-carbon pump, combustible liquid pump shall be arranged in
open-air or semi-open-air. In case placed inside closed pump house, the design
of hydro-carbon pump, combustible liquid pump and its house shall be in
compliance with following:
A. Liquefied hydro-carbon pump, and combustible liquid pump with the
operating temperature at or above flash point shall be arranged in
different room from combustible liquid pump with the operating
temperature below flash point; the in-between partition wall shall be fire-
proofing.
B. For combustible liquid pump house with the operating temperature at or
above flash point, the distance of the doors and windows to that for Class
AI, Class BI combustible liquid pump house with the operating
temperature of below flash point shall not be less than 4.5 m.
C. On the ground of Class A, BI liquid pump house, trenches or ditches

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should not be designed. In side pump-house, there shall be measures to

prevent gas from accumulating.
D. In case the number of liquefied hydro-carbon pump is not more than two,
they may be placed in the same house with the combustible liquid pump
with the medium temperature below ignition point.
1.1.9 For some plant storage tanks of feedstock or product, which do not take part in
process progress and have to be placed near to plant, in case the total volume
of the storage tanks is: not more than 100 m3 for liquefied hydro-carbon, not
more than 1000 m3 for combustible gas or combustible liquid, the fire-distance
to adjacent equipment or buildings shall be determined in accordance with
Table 4.2.1; in case the total volume of the storage tanks is: above 100 m 3 but
below 300 m3 for liquefied hydro-carbon, above 1000 m3 but below 3000 m3 for
combustible liquid, above 1000 m3 but below 5000 m3 for combustible gas, the
tanks can be placed in the neighbour-hood of plant and the fire-distance to
plant shall not be less than the specifications in Table 4.2.28.
The fire-distance between storage tanks shall be in accordance with the
relevant requirements of Chapter 5.
Table 4.2.28 Fire-distance for Plant Storage Tank to Plant (m)
Class of Tank Liquefied Hydro-
Combustible Liquid Combustible Gas
carbon
Class of Plant Class AI Class AII, B Class C Class A, B
Class A 30 25 20
Class B 25 20 15 15
Class C 20 15 15

1.2 Pressure Relief

1.2.1 The outlet connection of safety valve for combustible gas and combustible
liquid equipment shall be in compliance with following specification:
A. The exhaust pipe of safety valve for combustible liquid equipment shall be
connected to storage tank or other container; the exhaust pipe of safety
valve for pump should be connected to the suction line of the pump,
column or other containers.
B. The exhaust pipe of safety valves for combustible gas shall be connected to
flare system or other safety relief facilities.
C. The combustible gas or combustible liquid, which may likely burn instantly
after relieving shall be cooled prior to be connected to the vent system
D. The combustible gas which may likely entrain corrosive drops shall be
connected to flare system after being separated.
1.3 Fire-resistance Protection
1.3.2 For following load-bearing steel structure, supports, skirts, pipe supports, fire-
resistance cover shall be made.
A. Load-bearing steel structure, steel supports, steel skirts for Class A, B,

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liquid equipment with unit volume at or above 5m3;

B. Load-bearing steel structures, steel supports, steel skirts for Class BII,
Class C liquid equipment with unit volume at or above 5m 3, in which the
temperature is equal to or more than its ignition point;
C. Steel support for furnace;
D. Steel pipe-support for main pipe-rack located in explosion hazardous
locations.
E. Load-bearing steel frame, support and skirts of equipment with the ratio of
height to diameter at or above 8, and the total weight at or above 25t,
which is located inside explosion-hazardous area and handles non-
combustible material,.
1.3.3 For load-bearing steel structure support, skirt and pipe-support, following
position shall be covered with fire-resistance layer:
A. Load-bearing steel structure: all of beams, columns for single-storey
structures; all of beams, columns 10m above ground for multi-storey
structures whose floor is perforated grate plate; beams, columns above the
storey for multi-storey structures whose floor is close type plate;
B. Load-bearing steel support for equipment and heating furnace: all of beams
and columns;
C. Un-insulated section of exterior surface of steel skirts as well as the interior
surface of steel skirts with the radius more than 1.2m;
D. Steel pipe-rack: all of beams, columns of pipe-way on the basement floor
and should not be lower than 4.5m; in case air-cooler placed on the pipe-
rack, all of beams, columns and braces of pipe-rack shall be covered with
fire-resistance layer.
1.3.4 The duration of fire-resistance for components covered with fire-resistance
layer shall not be less than 1.5h. In case applying fire-proofing paints for fire-
resistance layer, thick type inorganic fire-resistance paints which is adaptable
to hydrocarbon type fire disaster shall be selected.
1.4 Others
1.4.1 For floors of multi-story buildings or structures involving combustible liquid
measures shall be taken to prevent the combustible liquid from seeping to the
lower story.

2 Storing and Transporting Facilities

2.1 General
2.1.1 Where Class A combustible gas or liquid may leaks out, combustible gas
alarming detector should be installed.
2.2 Above Ground Tank of Combustible Liquid
2.2.1 The total volume of liquid tank group shall be in accordance with following
specification:

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A. The total volume of fixed-roof tank group shall not be over 120,000m3 ;
B. The total volume of floating-roof tank group and inner floating-roof tank
group shall not be over 600,000m3 .
2.2.2 The quantity of tanks with unit volume at or above 10000m3 in a tank group
shall not be more than twelve; but for tanks with unit volume less than
10000m3 in a tank group, the quantity shall not be more than sixteen; for tanks
with each volume less than 1000m3 and Class CII liquid tanks, the specification
is in-valid.
2.2.3 The fire-distance of adjacent above-ground combustible liquid tanks in a tank
group shall not be less than the specification in Table 5.2.7.
Table 5.2.7 Fire-distance of Adjacent Above-ground Combustible Liquid Tank in tank group
Type
Fixed-roof tank Floating-roof, inner Horizontal
Class floating-roof tank
 1000 m3 > 1000 m3
0.6 D
(Fixed Fire-cooling);
Class AII, B 0.6D 0.4D
0.75 D
0.8 m
(Mobile Fire-cooling)
Class CI 0.4D, but should not be over 15m -
Class CII 2m 5m -
Note:
(1) The figure D in the table refers to the bigger one of two adjacent tanks; for single tank with
the volume more than 1000 m3, it refers to the bigger one of following two figures: the
diameter or the height of the tank;
(2) The fire-distance of adjacent tanks which stores different class combustible liquid or different
type, the bigger one of the values shall be adopted;
(3) Fire distance of elevated tanks shall not be less than 0.6m;
(4) For the shallow-disc floating-roof tank, the fire-distance is the same as for fixed-roof tank
2.2.4 For the design of fire-dike and partition-dike, following specification shall be
met:
A. Fire dike and partition dike shall be possible to bear the hydraulic pressure
of the liquid, and shall not leak out;
B. For vertical storage tank, the height of fire-dike shall be equal to the
calculation result plus 0.2m, and shall be from 1.0m to 2.2m; for horizontal
storage tank, the height of fire dike shall not be lower than 0.5m;
C. The height of partition dike shall be 0.2~0.3m lower than fire-dike at the
point passing through dike for pipeline shall be closely sealed by use of
non-combustible material;
D. In side the fire dike, measures shall be taken at the point passing through
dike for rain ditch to prevent combustible liquid from flowing out of the
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E. On different orientation of fire dike, more than two stages or ramps shall be
installed; stages shall be installed for all of partition dike;
2.3 Above-ground Liquefied Hydro-carbon, Combustible Gas and
Combustion-supporting Gas Storage Tank..
2.3.2 In case liquefied hydro-carbon tank are arranged in groups, following
requirements shall be met.
A. The number of rows in tank groups of full-pressure type or full-freezing
type shall not exceed two; loop fire-vehicle access shall be designed all
around tank groups;
B. The number of rows in each full-pressure type tank-group shall not exceed
twelve; the number of rows in full-freezing type tank-group shall not
exceed two;
C. For full-pressure type tank-group, in case the total volume of a full-
pressure type tank group exceeds 6000 m3 , partition dike shall be installed
in tank-group; the volume of partition dike shall not be more than 6000 m 3
; in case unit volume of tank is at or above 5000 m 3, tanks shall be
partitioned every one. For full-freezing type tank-group, tanks shall be
partitioned every one. The partition embankment shall be 0.2m lower than
fire embankment of dike.
D. Tanks with different storage mode shall not be placed in the same tank-
group.
2.3.3 In side the tank groups of liquefied hydro-carbon, combustible gas
combustion-supporting gas, the fire-distance shall not be less than the
specification in Table 5.3.3.
Table 5.3.3 Fire-distance of tank in groups for liquefied hydro-carbon, combustible gas,
combustion-supporting gas
Tank Type
Water-channel type gas holder

Dry type gas-holder

Full-freezing tank

Horizontal tank
Spherical tank

Class of tank
Full-pressure tank

With emergence emission device to 0.5 D 1.0D -

liquefied hydro-carbon

discharge to flare Should not

Without emergence emission device 1.0 D exceed 1.5 m
to discharge to flare

Full-freezing tank 0.5D

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combustible gas 0.5 D 0.65D

combustion-supporting gas Should not
exceed 1.5 m
Combustible gas Water-channel type gas holder 0.5D
Dry type gas-holder 0.65D
Spherical tank 0.5 D
Note:
(1) D is the diameter of the bigger one of two adjacent tanks;
(2) For spherical tank and horizontal tank in the same tank-group, the bigger figure shall
be adopted for the fire-distance;
(3) The fire-distance for liquid ammonia shall be the same as for liquefied hydro-carbon
storage-tank; as for the fire-distance for liquid oxygen, the relevant requirements
specified in the current state standard “Code for Design of Building Fire
Protection”shall be adhereed to.
(4) For semi-freezing liquefied hydro-carbon storage tank, the fire-distance for full-
pressure liquefied hydro-carbon storage tanks shall be adopted.
2.3.1 For cryogenic liquid ammonia storage tank, fire dike shall be installed; the
effective volume inside the dike shall be equal to 60% of the volume of the
largest one
2.3.1 5.3.7A For full-freezing type liquefied hydro-carbon storage tank in tank-
groups, fire dikes shall be installed in accordance with following
specifications:
A. The distance from full-freezing type liquefied hydrocarbon storage tanks to
the interior foot of fire-embankment shall be equal to the difference
between the highest level of storage tank and the height of fire-
embankment. The available volume in the fire-dike shall be equall to the
volume of the biggest tank;
B. Walking steps or ladders shall be installed for fire-dike;
C. Fire-dike and partition-dike shall be made of non-combustible solid
protection structure, which shall be capable to endure the hydraulic
pressure of the liquid and the influence due to temperature fluctuation, and
shall be free of leakage.
2.3.1 On liquefied hydro-carbon storage tank, liquid level gauge, temperature gauge,
pressure gauge, safety valve, as well as high-level alarming device or high
level auto-down device for material adding by inter-dock shall be installed.
For full-freezing liquefied hydro-carbon tank, vacuum relief device shall be
furnished in addition.
2.3.2 For the connection valves and fittings for opening nozzle on liquefied hydro-
carbon tank, the pressure rating of piping class shall not be less than 2.0 MPa;
the gasket shall be of wound type gasket. The seal-material of valve bonnet
shall be of non-combustible material. For full-pressure storage tank, pipeline
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2.4 Loading Facilities of Combustible Liquid, Liquefied Hydro-carbon

2.4.1 The train and truck loading facilities for liquefied hydro-carbon shall be in
accordance with following specification:
A. Liquefied hydro-carbon train loading platform shall be installed
independently; in case not operated simultaneously, it may also be
installed on the same platform with for combustible liquid;
B. Liquefied hydro-carbon must not be drained locally;
C. The distance among loading-arm seats for liquefied hydro-carbon loading
truck shall not be less than 4 m;
D.The pavement inside loading station for liquefied hydro-carbon shall of
cast-in-situ concrete;
E. In addition, the train loading facilities for liquefied hydro-carbon shall be
in compliance with Clause 5.4.1 in the code;
2.4.2 The design of combustible liquid jetty, liquefied hydro-carbon jetty shall be in
accordance with following specification:
A. The minimum distance from jetty to the adjacent berth shall be in
accordance to the specification in Table 5.4.5 based on the ship model:
Table 5.4.5 Minimum Distance of Adjacent Berthes for Jetty (m)
Ship Length (L) 279~236 235~183 182~151 150~110 < 110
Min. Distance 55 50 40 35 25
Note:
In case a ship anchored in the outer block of jetty，the specification is invalid.
B. berth for liquefied hydro-carbon shall be installed independently; in case
not operated at the same time, it may share a berth with other combustible
liquid;
C. The safety distance from jetty for liquefied liquid and liquefied hydro-
carbon to other jetties, buildings and structures shall be in compliance with
relevant specification in current state standard “Code for Design of Oil-
loading Jetty Fire-prevention”;
D. Emergence cut-off valve convenient to operate shall be installed on the
ship loading pipeline with 20m distance away from berthes or
embankment;
E. Loading-arm or metal hose shall be adopted for loading pipe of liquefied
hydro-carbon, and safety vent measures shall be taken.
2.5 Pump and Compressor
2.5.1 5.7.1A. In full-freezing type storage facilities for liquefied hydrocarbon, the
fire-distance for pumps, compressors and other rotatary equipment to storage
tanks shall not be less than 15m; for other equipment and non-rotatary
equipment to storage tanks, the fire-distance shall be in compliance with the
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2.6 Warehouse in Plant

2.6.2 The warehouse for Class A, B and C goods shall be in compliance with
following specifications:
A. The warehouse for Class A goods shall be installed separately and the
storage shall not exceed 30t; in case the storage is less than 3 t, the
warehouse for Class A goods can share one building with those for Class
B, C goods; however independent partition blocks shall be installed for
the warehouse.
B. The storage for Class B, C goods shall be calculated based on the
production of the plant for a period of 2 to 15 days;
C. Goods shall be stored separately in accordance with the physical property
and chemical property; in case it is not allowed to be stored together for
property reason, solid wall shall be adopted for partition and entrance and
exit be installed individually.
D.The ware-house shall be ventilated properly;
E. The pavement inside the warehouse, where there is a chance to generate
explosive gas mixture or explosive mixture of dus, fibbre etc., in the air,
shall be non-sparkle-generating surface, and if required, it shall be
furnished with water-proofing layer.
3 Combustible Liquid Containing Process Waste-water Pipeline,
Waste-water Treatment Unit and Circulating Water Station

3.1 Combustible Liquid Containing Process Waste-water Pipeline

3.1.2 For the process waste-water drainage, covered conduit or covered gutter with
the thickness of covering soil not-less-than 200mm shall adopted. In case open
ditch has to be adopted to drain inside plant, it shall be furnished by several
segments, and the length of each segment should not exceed 30 m, the interval
of adjacent segments should not be less than 2m.
3.1.1 The production waste water line inside tank groups shall be furnished with
independent discharges and the hydraulic seal pots shall be installed outside
fire dike; and between the hydraulic seal pots and fire embankments,
conveniently operated cut-off valve shall be installed.
3.1.2 For production waste water pipeline inside Class A, B process plants, vent pipe
should be installed at the highest check well for waste-water header or
subheader;
4 Fire-fighting
4.1 Fire-fighting Station
4.1.2 For petrochemical enterprise, the fire-vehicle furnishment for fire-fighting
station shall be mainly based on big-sized foam fire-vehicle; dry-powder fire-
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petrochemical enterprise, high-rise spraying fire-engine and

telecommunication command vehicle should be furnished also.
4.1.3 A fire-fighting station must be equipped with device to receive fire-alarming
signal and communication system; the furnishement shall be in accordance
with following:
A. The alarm reveiving telephone for telephone alarming system shall be
record type;
B. In case installing automatic alarm or manual alarm push-button system,
alarm signal indication panel should be installed;
C. In case an enterprise is equipped with television safety monitoring system,
indication screen should be installed in fire-fighting station;
D. In case an enterprise is equipped with automatic extinguishing system, the
feed-back signal should be indicated in the fire-fighting station.
4.1.4 In case the storage of foam inside fire-fighting station is some-how big,
suitable facilities should be installed to quickly fill foam into fire-engine.
Grade I fire-fighting station should be furnished with foam-tank trailer or
transportation vehicle, on which facilities shall be installed to fill foam to fire-
engine.
4.2 Fire-fighting Water Supply System
(II) Fire-fighting Water Consumption
4.2.1 The fire water demand for one-time fire-fighting shall be in compliance with
following specification:
A. Outdoors water supply of fire-fighting water for residential area and
buildings shall be determined in accordance with the relevant
specification stipulated in the current state standard “Code for Design of
Building Fire Protection”;
B. Water supply of fire-fighting for process plant shall be determined
comprehensively considering the plant scale, class of fire-hazard and the
installation of fixed fire-fighting facilities, etc.. In case there is difficulty
indeed, tt can decided in accordance with Table 7.3.6. The duration of
water supply for fire-fighting shall not be less than 3 h.
Table 7.3.6 Fire-fighting Water Demand for Process Plant (L/s)
Plant Scale Medium-sized plant Big-sized Plant

Type of Plant
Petrochemical plant 150~300 300~450
Refinery plant 150~230 230~300
Ammonia Plant and its after-process plant 90~120 120~150
Note:
Fire-fighting water demand for artificial fibre factory buildings may be determined in
accordance with the relevant specifications of current state standard “Code for Design of
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C. Fire-fighting water demand for auxiliary production facilities may be

calculated as 30 L/s. The duration of water supply for fire-fighting
should not be less than 2 h.
4.2.2 Fire-fighting water demand for combustible liquid tank group shall be in
compliance with following specifications:
A. Fire-fighting water supply shall be calculated based on the tank group
requiring the biggest of fire-fighting water demand, which shall be equal
to the sum of water consumption for formulating foam and for cooling
burning tanks and the adjacent tanks;
B. In case the burning tank is vertical, the adjacent tanks in the range of 1.5
times of the diameter of the burning tank shall be cooled by water; in
case the burning one is horizontal, the adjacent above-ground tanks in
the range of half of the sum of the diameter plus the length of burning
tank shall be cooled by water.
C. In case the number of adjacent vertical tanks exceeds three, cooling
water consumption may be calculated as for three tanks; in case the
burning tank is floating roof or cabinet-floating type inner-floating-roof
(excluding the floating roof is of fusible material), the water for cooling
adjacent tanks may not be included.
4.2.3 Fixed or mobile fire-fighting cooling water system shall be installed for
combustible liquid above-ground vertical tank; and the supply range, supply
intensity and installation mode shall be in compliance with following:
A. Fire-fighting water supply range and intensity shall not be less than the
specification in Table 7.3.8;
B. For un-insulated tank with the height above 17m or the volume at or above
10000m3, fixed type fire-fighting cooling water system shall be installed;
but for lube-oil storage tank, mobile fire-fighting cooling water system may
be adopted;
C. For fixed type fire-fighting cooling water system, control device shall be
installed to ensure the water supply intensity.

Table 7.3.8 Supply Range and Intensity of Fire-fighting Cooling Water

Tank Type Water Supply Water Supply Intensity Remarks
Range  16mm  19mm
water gun water gun
Mobile Burst Fixed-roof Tank Around tk. & 0.6 L/s.m 0.8 L/s.m
water-gun tank full length
cooling floating-roof tk., Around tk. & 0.45 L/s.m 0.6 L/s.m If the roof of inner
inner floating full length floating-roof tank is of
-roof tk. fusible mat., considered
as fixed roof tank
Adj. Un-insulated Around tk. & 0.35 L/s.m 0.7 L/s.m

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tank Insulated half of the 0.2 L/s.m

tank length
Fixed Burst Fixed roof Tank Surface area 2.5 L/min.m2
water- tank of tank wall
cooling floating-roof tk., Surface area 2.0 L/min.m2 If the roof of inner
inner floating of tank wall floating-roof tank is of
-roof tk. fusible mat., considered
as fixed roof tank
Adj. Half of the 1.0 L/min.m2 Calculated as actual
tank surface area of cooling area, and shall
tank wall not be less than half of
the tank wall area.
Note:
The water supply specifications for shallow-disc type inner floating-roof tank are calculated as
for fixed-roof tank;

(III) Fire-fighting Water Supply Pipeline and Hydrants

4.2.4 Inside process area, tank farms and etc. for big-sized petrochemical enterprise,
independent steady high-pressure fire-fighting water supply system shall be
installed, whose pressure should be 0.7~1.2 MPa. For other locations
employing low-pressure fire-fighting water supply system, the water-supply
pressure shall ensure the water pressure at the worst position during fire-
fighting not less than 0.15 MPa (calculated from the ground). Low-pressure
water supply system shall not be shared with circulating cooling water system.
4.2.5 The installation of hydrants shall be in accordance with following
specification:
A. Above-ground type hydrants should be selected preferably;
B. Hydrants should be lay down along road;
C. The distance for hydrants to road side shall not be more than 5 m; the
distance to the exterior wall of buildings shall not be more than 5 m;
D. The distance for above-ground hydrants to urban road side shall not be
less than 0.5 m; that to highway type double-lane road-shoulder shall not
be less than 0.5 m; that to the centerline of single-lane road shall not be
less than 3 m;
E. The big-sized outlet of above-ground hydrants shall oriented towards
road; in case the location for the hydrants is susceptible to be rammed by
vehicles, safeguarding facilities shall be installed all around;
F. Under-ground hydrant shall have noticeable indicator;
4.2.6 For plant locations, the hydrants shall be arranged all around plant, and the
interval should not exceed 60m. In case there is fire-vehicle access inside
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The hydrants located in the range of 15m away from the tank-wall of
combustible liquid tank farm, liquefied hydrogen tank farm, shall not be
included in the quantity of applicable hydrants.

(IV) Box-type Hydrants, Fire Water-canon, Water Spraying and Water

showering System
7.3.19 This Clause is deleted.
4.2.7 Box-type hydrants should be installed in the neighborhood of heating furnace,
Class A gas compressors, hot-oil pump and hot-oil heat-exchanger with the
medium temperature above ignition point, less than 30m long hot-oil pump-
house and under pipe-racks inside process plant, and the protection radius
should be 30 m.
4.2.8 Inside process plant, higher than 15m frame platforms for Class A, Class B
process equipment, semi-fixed vertical supply pipe for fire-fighting water
should be installed along the ladders, which shall be in compliance with
following specifications:
A. Based on the requirements for each story, valved junction connection
shall be installed;
B. For platform with the occupancy area less or equal to 50 m2, the size of
water-supply pipeline should not be less than 80 mm; for platform larger
than 50 m2, the size not be less than 100 mm;
C. In case the length of frame platform exceeds 25 m, an additional fire-
fighting water-supply vertical pipe should be installed along the ladders
on the other side; and the interval of fire-fighting water-supply vertical
pipe shall not be more than 50m.

4.2.9 High-rise frame and equipment groups for Class A, Class B equipment
involving large volume of combustible-gas or combustible-liquid should be
protected by fire-fighting water-canon, the distance of the canon to the
protected subject should not be less than 15m, the output of water-canon
should be around 30~40 L/s, and the spray should be dual purposed type both
for direct-flow and spraying.
4.2.10 For special hazardous equipment and locations inside process plant which
cannot be protected effectively by fixed water-canon, water showering system
or water spraying system should be installed in accordance with following
specifications:
A. The duration, reply time and control mode, etc., for the system should be
determined based on the characteristic and operating requirments of
protected subjects;
B. In case rain-dripping valves are installed close to protected-subjects, fire
protection facilities should be installed;
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indicated on fire-alarm control panel in the central-control room;

D. Other requirements shall be in accordance with current state standard
“Code for Design of Water-spraying Extinguishing System”.

(V) Fire-fighting Water Pump House

4.2.11 Fire-fighting water pump, pressure-stabilizing pump shall be furnished with

standby pump. The capacity of standby pump shall not be less than that of the
biggest fire-fighting water pump.
4.2.12 Fire-fighting water pump should be possible to put into operation within 2
minutes after receiving alarm signal. The fire-fighting water pump for
stabilizing high-pressure fire-fighting water supply system shall be
automatically controlled.
4.3 Low-power Foam Extinguishing System
4.3.2 Fixed foam extinguishing system should be adopted in the following locations:
A. The fixed-roof tank and the inner roof tank with the floating cover of the
fusible material; in which the unit volume of tank is more than or equal to
10000m3 for non-water soluble combustible liquid of Class A, Class B or
the unit volume of tank is more than or equal to 500m 3 for water soluble
Class A, Class B combustible liquid;
B. The floating-roof tank with the unit volume more than or equal to 50000m 3
for combustible liquid;
C. The tank-farm for combustible liquid which cannot be effectively protected
by the mobile fire-fighting facility;
D. The tank farm for combustible liquid located in maze area, where it is
difficult for fire-engine to put-out the fire.
4.3.3 Mobile foam extinguishing system may be adopted in the following locations:
A. The tank for non-water soluble combustible gas, whose wall height is less
than 7m or whose volume is equal to or less than 200m3;
B. The tank for lube-oil;.
C. The fire disaster resulting from the spilling combustible liquid on the
ground or inside oil basin.
4.3.4 Semi-fixed foam system should be employed in the following locations:
A. In-site tank farms of combustible liquid apart from ones covered by Clause
7.4.2 and 7.4.3;
B. The partial locations with biggest fire hazard in plants or units.
4.3.5 For the fixed foam extinguishing system adopted in the tank farm, in case it is
difficult to send the foam to the igniting tank within 5 minutes by the manual
operation, the control valve on foam mixture pipeline for tank-farm should be
remote controlled or program controlled.
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automatic fire alarming system shall be adopted; manual operation or

automatic control can be adopted for foam extinguishing system. For the
floating-roof tank with volume more than or equal to 100000m 3, program
control shall be adopted for foam extinguishing system.
4.3.7 The design of foam extinguishing system shall be implemented in accordance
with relevant specification stipulated in the current state standard “Code for
Design of Low-power Foam Extinguishing System”.
4.4 Steam Smothering System
4.4.1 Fixed or semi-fixed steam smothering system should be installed for process
plant on the condition that steam supply is available; But it shall not be
installed on locations where the application of steam may likely lead to
accident.
4.4.1 The arrangement of smothering steam pipeline shall be in compliance with
following specifications:
A. Inside a furnace chamber, a return-bend box conveying corrosive material
or with plug furnished, fixed smothering steam perforated-tube (herein
after refer to as fixed perforated-tube) shall be installed. The steam
pipeline for each perforated-tube shall be connected from “Steam
Manifold”. The distance for “Steam manifold”to furnace should not be
less than 7.5 m; and at least two spare semi-fixed connections shall be
reserved.
B. For in-doors less than 500 m2, closed-type Class A, B, C pump-house or
Class A gas compressor-house, fixed perforated-tube shall be installed
along one side wall of the house and at 150~200mm above ground; and
adequate semi-fixed connections should be installed on the other side. For
other Class A, B, C pump-house or combustible gas compressor house,
semi-fixed connections shall be installed inside.
C. In the neighborhood of Class A, B, C equipment, semi-fixed connections
should be installed. And in the neighborhood of combustible gas or
combustible liquid equipment in which the operating temperature is at or
above ignition point, fixed perforated-tube should be installed with a
distance not less than 7.5m from its valves to the equipment;
D. For Class A, B, C equipment multi-story frame or united platform for
columns, semi-fixed connections should be installed on every story or
every two stories.
E. If hose station is placed under the pipe-rack in process plant, in the
neighborhood of Class A, B, C equipment located under pipe-rack or near
pipe-rack, the semi-fixed connections may be omitted.
F. The valves for fixed perforated-tube or semi-fixed connections shall be
placed on noticeable locations, which is safe and convenient to operate.
4.5 Installation of Extinguisher
4.5.1 The extinguishers for production area should be dry-powder type or foam type,

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but for instrument room, control room, computer room, telecommunication

station, laboratory room and so on, carbon-dioxide type extinguishers should
be installed.
4.5.2 The specifications of unit extinguisher installed in production area shall be
selected from the models indicated in Table 7.7.2.
Table 7.7.2 Specification of Extinguisher
Extinguisher Type Dry powder (sodium- Foam Type Carbon-dioxide
hydrogen-carbonate (Chem. Foam)
Portable Wheeled Portable Wheeled Portable Wheeled
Capacity of Vol. (L) 9 65
Extinguishant Wt. (kg) 8 35, 50 7 25
4.6 Fire Alarming System
4.6.2 Telephone fire alarming system shall be in compliance with following
specifications:
A. Grade I and Grad II fire-fighting station shall be furnished with alarm-
receiving record telephones, which can handle fire alarm in case there are
fires on not-less-than two locations at the same time.
B. Fire-fighting substation, production control center, fire-fighting pump
house should be furnished with fire-alarm receiving and monitoring
telephone.
C. Special-use fire-alarming telephone shall be installed inside control room
for process plants and transportation/storage facilities.
4.6.1 The manual press-button alarming system should be installed inside Class A
and Class B the plant and all around the tank farm in big-scaled
petrochemical enterprise.
4.6.2 The panel for smog-detector, temperature-detector, flame-detector and other
automatic alarms shall be installed inside control room or operating room for
protection area.
4.7 Fire-fighting for Liquefied Hydrocarbon Tank Farm
4.7.2 For liquefied hydrogen-carbon tanks over 100m3, fixed fire cooling water
system or fixed water-canon, and mobile water supply system for fire-fighting
cooling shall be installed. In case the volume of tank is below or at 100 m 3,
fixed fire cooling water system or fixed water-canon can be omitted. The
mobile water supply system for fire cooling shall be capable to meet the total
demand of cooling water for fire-fighting.
4.7.1 A The installation of fixed fire-fighting cooling water supply system for full-
freezing liquefied hydrocarbon tank should be in accordance with following:
A. The fixed showering device should be applied for the cooling of tank roof,
but the fixed water-canon should be adopted for the cooling of tank wall;
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neighboring tank should not be less than 4L/min.m 2, the cooling area
should be calculated based on the surface area of tank roof;
C. The cooling water supply strength for the tank-wall of the burning tank and
the neighboring tank should not be less than 2L/min.m 2. The cooling area
of the burning tank should be based on the surface area of tank; and the
cooling area of the neighboring tank should be based on the half of surface
area of tank.
4.7.1 For fixed fire cooling water system, water showering type or spraying type
may be adopted; in case the carbon deposits on the tank wall while the stored
material is burning, water spraying cooling system shall be installed. Water
showering system can be ejection type, perforated tube type, or tank-roof
multi-tooth weir type, etc.
The sprayer of the fixed water-canon shall be direct-flow water spraying
ejector and be 15~40m away from the tank wall. The cooling water
consumption for fixed water-canon shall be increased from the calculation
figure based on Clause 7.9.4 and should not be less than 1.15 times of the
calculated values.
4.7.2 When the water spraying is adopted for fixed fire-fighting cooling water
system for tanks, the sprayers should be installed to protect the valves, the
level guages and the safety valves on the tank; in case water showing is
adopted for fixed fire-fighting cooling water system for tanks, auxiliary
protection measures such as the water showering sprayer, mobile fire-fighting
cooling water system should be installed.
4.7.3 The installation of fixed fire cooling water pipeline shall be in compliance with
following specifications:
A. For storage tanks over 400 m3, there should be two vertical supply pipes of
fire-fighting water, which should be arranged symmetrically; In case
adopting tank-roof multi-tooth weir showing system, there may be one
water supply vertical pipe;
B. The control valves of fire cooling water system should be placed outside
of fire-dike and be 15m away from the tank wall; the valves may be
maually controlled or remote controlled; and after valves, pipe strainers
with by-pass valve should be installed;
C. The pipe after the control valve and the tube on the storage tank shall be
of galvanized pipe.
4.7.4 For mobile fire cooling water system, water gun or mobile water canon may
be adopted.
4.8 Fire-fighting for Oil Loading Jetty
4.8.1 The fire-fighting facilities for oil loading jetty shall be capable to put out fires
due to oil leakage in the loading area, to provide protection for heat radiation
for production facilities in loading area or to provide fire-fighting help for
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4.8.2 The installation of fire-fighting facilities for Class A, B oil loading jetty shall
be in compliance with following specifications:
A. River type oil-jetty for the oil tanker with tonage of 1000 t and more or
coastal type oil-jetty for the oil tanker with tonage of 3000 t and more,
shall be furnished with fixed type or semi-fixed foam fire-fighting system;
the foam mixture supply intensity should not be less than 30 L/s;
B. River type oil-jetty for the oil-tanker with tonage of 5000 t and more or
coastal type oil-jetty for the oil-tanker with tonage of 20000 t and more,
shall be furnished with fixed foam extinguishing sytem with the foam
mixture supply intensity not less than 60 L/s; and and should be furnished
with two fixed dual-purpose canons both for water and foam, whose
ejecting intensity should not less than 30 L/s; for coastal type oil-jetty for
the oil-tanker with tonage of 50000 t and more, the fixed dual-purpose
canons should be elevated and remote controlled;
C. The continuous supply duration for mixture should not be less than 0.5h,
but the supply time for fire-fighting water should not be less than 2h; in
case installing water curtain, the water consumption for fire fighting
should include the water consumption for water curtain.

4.8.3 A coastal jetty for Class A and Class B oil products, in case it is for the oil-
tanker with the tonage of 35000t and more to anchor, water curtain protecting
against the heat radiation should be installed in accordance with following
regulations:
A. The water curtain should be installed on the front of the jetty, the length of
water curtain should be extended by 5m on both ends of loading facility.
B. The spraying reach of water curtain should be 1.5m higher than the
protected targets.
C. In case the height of water curtain is less than 10m, the unit water
consumption per meter should not be less than 100L/min; in case the
height of water curtain is more than 10m, the water consumption should be
increased by 10L/min as the ejection height increase by 1m.
4.8.4 For coastal type oil-jetty for Class A, B oil, when the oil-tankers with tonage of
35000t and more is anchored in the berths for operation, there shall be fire-
fighting ship or dual-purposed tug-boat in the nearby for the supervision and
monitoring.
4.9 Fire-fighting in Building
4.9.2 The intallation of fire-fighting system in buildings should be determined by the
danger comprehensively considering fire hazard, operating conditions,
property of material, volume of buildings and the installations, etc. of outside
fire-fighting facilities.
4.9.3 The installation of indoor hydrants in the production building handling the
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requirements:
A. In case the length of multi-storey or single-storey production building is
more than or equal to 30m, hydrants should be installed;
B. Semi-fixed fire-fighting vertical pipe should be installed on the staircase
house in multi-storey Class A and B production building; connection joints
for water hose should be installed on each floor; fire-fighting vertical pipes
should be installed on outdoors locations convenient to operate;
C. The water gun equipped for hydrants should be dual-purposed, both for
direct flow- and water spray.
4.9.4 The fire-fighting for control room involving computer control for process
plants and units, shall be in accordance with following requirements:
A. The fire-resistance classification of building, the design of internal
decoration and air conditioning shall be in compliance with the relevant
regulations stipulated by the current national standard “Code for Design
of Building Protection” and “Fire-prevention Code of Internal Decoration
Design”;
B. In case control room is constructed with the other buildings, separate
fireproofing partition shall be made;
C. Automatic alarm system for fire hazard shall be installed; the alarm panel
shall be installed in the operation room.
D. In case it is possible for the combustible gas to accumulate nearby the inlet
for cable ditches, gas detector shall be installed;
E. Portable gas extinguisher or wheeled extinguisher shall be furnished.
4.9.5 As for single-storeyed warehouse storing artificial fiber, synthetic rubber,
synthetic resin and plastic, sulfur, ammonia, in case the building area is more
than the regulations stipulated in the current national standard “Code for
Design of Building Fire Protection”, automatic alarm system or TV
monitoring system for fire hazard, and indoor hydrant system shall be
installed;
Both TV monitoring system and automatic alarm system for fire hazard shall
be installed in the warehouse storing the flammable synthetic fiber such as
acetate fiber, rayon fiber, nylon, polyester fiber; in case the span of warehouse
is more than 30m, elevated water-canons shall be installed in addition.
5 Electric
5.1 Power Supply and Power Distribution for Fire-prevention
5.1.2 The power supply for fire-fighting electric equipment in fire water pump house
shall be in accordance with the requirements of Grade I power load stipulated
in the current state standard “Code for Design of Industrial and Civil Electric
Power Supply System”.
5.1.1 For critical fire-fighting electrical equipment, automatic switch shall be
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Fireproofing cable should be adopted for the power distributing line.

5.2 Lightning
5.2.1 The classification of lightning and lightning installation for buildings and
structures in process plant shall be in accordance with the relevant
specifications in current state standard “Code for Design of Building
Lightning”.
5.2.1 The steel storage tank for combustible gas, liquefied hydro-carbon,
combustible liquid must be grounded for lightning, and in compliance with
following specifications:
A. The protection range of lightning rod, lightning thread shall cover the
whole tank;
B. For fixed-roof above-ground tank with fire-arrestor installed for Class AII,
B combustible liquid, in case the thickness of roof is at or above 4 mm,
lightning rod or lightning thread can be omitted; in case the thickness of
roof is less than 4 mm, lightning rod or lightning thread shall be omitted;
C. For Class C combustible liquid tank, lightning rod or lightning thread can
be omitted; but grounding device of induction lightning must be installed;
D. For floating-roof storage tank (including inner floating-roof storage tank),
lightning rod or lightning thread can be omitted; but the floating roof shall
be electrically connected to tank body by two copper cashes, whose
section area shall not be less than 25 mm2;
E. For pressure storage tank, lightning rod or lightning thread may be
omitted; but it shall be grounded for lightning.
5.2.1 The requirements of electric-resistance for grounding shall be in accordance
with the relevant specifications in the current state standard “Code for Design
of Petroleum Storage”, “Code for Design of Building Lightning”.
5.3 Static Grounding
5.3.2 In case not specified by the code, the requirements or regulations of the
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Appendix A Term Explanation

Term Explanation
Petro-chemical A factory adopting petroleum, natural gas or its products as feed-stock, eg.
enterprise refinery, petrochemical factory, petroleum chemical fibre factory, etc., or an
complex enterprise composed of above factories.
Plant area An area composed of process plant, storage and transportation unit facilities,
utility facilities and other auxiliary facilities, as well as administrative and
welfare facilities, etc..
Production area An area in side the enclosure of a factory, composed by process units, tank
groups, loading facilities, filling station, pump house, warehouse, cooling water
station, waste-water treatment unit, flare and other process units and facilities,
which may release combustible gas or utilize, produce combustible materials; or
composed by independent occupancies by tank groups, filling stations, waste-
water treatment unit and other facilities.
Liquefied Liquefied hydrocarbon refers to hydrocarbon liquid and other similar liquid
hydrocarbon, LPG whose vapor pressure is over 0.1 MPa at 15 ℃, in which LPG is included. LPG
refers to gas mixture of liquefied hydrocarbon, including propane, butane and
others with the density being 1.5 to 2.0 times as air.
Plant important Plant central control room, plant boiler-house and self-equipped power
facilities generation station (excluding ashing yard), general transformer and power
distribution station, telecommunication station, central-control room for storage
and transportation unit of liquefied hydrocarbon and combustible liquid, plant air
compression unit, fire-fighting station, fire-fighting pumphouse, central chemical
laboratory, headquarter office building, first-aid station, nursing room and other
facilities which may likely affect plant production and result in huge damages
and casualties.
Location setting In-doors or out-doors naked flame, red-flamming surface, chimney with flying
off flamming fire flame, out-doors grounding wheel, electric welding, gas welding (oxygen gas
or sparkle cutting), installation locations of non-explosion-proofing electric switches, etc..

United complex The required conditions for united complex is "start-up and shutdown
unit simultaneously", i.e. two or more than two independent units are closely
arranged, and the material is added directly in-between; there is no intermediate
storage tank for maintenance; the units are started up or shut down at the same
time. In plant overall plot plan, the units are considered as one single unit.
Unit in Petro- Component of petrochemical plant, i.e. a combination body of equipment,
chemical Plant pipelines, instruments, and so on to complete one or several chemical operation
according to chemical process. For example, ethylene plant pyrolysis unit,
quench oil-washing unit, compression unit, separation unit, cracked gasoline
hydrogenation unit, etc.
High pressure With gauge pressure over 10 MPa through to 100 MPa
Super-high With gauge pressure above 100 MPa
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Term Explanation
Process equipment Generic term of equipment inside refinery plant and petrochemical plant such as
(shortened as vessel, furnace, machine, pump and other mechanical equipment, which is
equipment) required to complete process progress (reaction, heat-exchange, separation,
storage)
Tank group Centrally arranged one or more storage tanks, enclosed in one fire dike
Tank Farm Locations for one of more centrally arranged tanks
Flare system Pressure relieving facilities composed of pipelines, fire-arrestors, separation
equipment and flare stack, etc..
Heavier-than-air Flammable gas with the density at or above 0.97 kg/m 3 under standard
Flammable gas conditions.
Boiling spill liquid Viscose hydrocarbon mixtures such as crude oil, which will result in boiling-spill
in case there is fire on storage tanks and the bottom liquid vaporizes quickly due
to the contribution of heat-wave
Grade I, II Fire- Grade I fire-fighting station is such as furnished with 6 or more fire-engines;
fighting station Grade II station is such as furnished with 4~5 fire engines.
Water dripping Water dripping system composed of nozzle, perforated tube, pipe and control
system valve, etc..
Water spraying Composition is similar to dripping system, but the diameter of ejected drop shall
system be 200~ 400 m and the drop should have certain amount of dynamic energy to
spray to equipment surface and space to block heat radiation, in order to reach
the purpose to control or put out fires.
Box hydrants Outdoors hydrant composed of hydrant, fire hose, multi-purpose spraying water
gun and box body, etc..
Foam mixture Aqueous solution composed by foam and water at certain proportion.
solution
Low-power foam Foam mixture, which can expand to 20 times in volume after intaking air.
Commonly used model is 6 times.
Water-soluble Combustible liquid, which is able to solve with water, e.g., alcohol, ether,
combustible liquid aldehyde, ketol and so on.
Non-soluble Combustible liquid, which cannot be solved in water, e.g. crude oil and
combustible liquid petroleum products.
Fixed foam Foam extinguishing system composed of fixed foam station, fixed mixture
extinguish system pipeline and fixed foam generation vessel, and so on.
Semi-fixed foam Foam extinguishing system composed of fire-engine, fire-fighting hose, fixed
extinguish system foam generation vessel connected and so on; or one composed of fixed foam
station, fire water hose, foam gun or hooked tube and so on.
Mobile foam Foam extinguishing system composed of fire-engine, fire hose and foam gun or
extinguish system foam hooked-tube, and so on.
Above-level Spraying system, in which the foam is sprayed into from the above of liquid
spraying system level of storage tank
Under-level Spraying system, in which the foam is sprayed into from the bottom of storage
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Term Explanation
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Appendix C

Examples of Fire Hazard Classification for Liquefied Hydrocarbon and Combustible Liquid

Attach. Table 3.1

Class Examples
Class A I liquefied methane, liquefied natural gas (LNG), liquefied chloro-methane,
liquefied cis-butene, liquefied ethylene, liquefied ethane, liquefied trans-butene,
liquefied cyclopropane, liquefied propene, liquefied propane, liquefied
cyclobutane, liquefied neopentane, liquefied butene, liquefied butane, liquefied
chloro ethylene, liquefied epoxy ethane, liquefied butadiene, liquefied isobutane,
liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), diemethylamine;

II Isoprene, isopentane, petrol, pentane, carbon disulfide, isohexane, hexane,

petroleum ether, isoheptan, cyclohexane, octan, isooctane, benze, heptane,
petroleum naphtha, crude oil, toluene, ethyl benzene, m-xylene, o-xylene, p-
xylene, isobutanol, ether, acetaldehyde, epoxypropane, formic ether, ethylamine,
diethylamine, acetone, butanal, methylene dichloride, triethylamine, ethene acetic,
butanone, vinyl cyanide, acetidin, isopropyl acetate, vinylene dichloride, methanol,
isopropanol, alcohol, propyl acetate, propanol, isobutyl acetate, butyl fomiate,
pyridine, dichloroethane, butyl acetate, isopenyl acetate, pentyl fomiate, acrylic
ester
B I propyl benzene, epoxy chloropropane, styrene, jet fuel, kerosene, butyl alcohol,
chlorobenzene, ethylenediamine, pentanol, cyclohexanone, ice acetic acid,
isopentanol

II --35# diesel, cyclopentane, ethyl silicate, chloroethanol, butyl alcohol,

chloropropanol, dimethyl formamide
C I Diesoline, heavy oil, phenylamine, spindle oil, phenol, cresol, furfural, 20# heavy
oil, phenyl aldehyde, cyclohexaneol, methacrylic acid, ethylene glycol butyl ether,
formaldehyde, furfuryl alcohol, octanol, ethanolamine, propanediol, cresol,
ethandiol, dimethyl acetamide;
II wax oil, 100# heavy oil, oil residue, transformer oil, lubricating oil, diethylene
glycol ether, trithylene glycol ether, dibutyl phthalate, glycerine, mixture of
diphenyl and diphenyl ether

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Appendix D
Examples of Fire Hazard Classification for Class A, B, C Combustible Solids

Attach. Table 4.1

Class Examples
A yellow phosphorus, nitrocotton, nitrocellulose film, spraying cotton, touch cotton,
celluloid cotton, lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), strontium
(Sr), rubidium (Rb), cesium (Cs), potassium hydride, sodium hydride, lithium
hydride, calcium phosphide, calcium carbide, lithium aluminium hydride, sodium
amalgam, aluminium carbide, potassium peroxide, sodium peroxide, barium
peroxide, strontium peroxide, calcium peroxide, potassium perchlorate, sodium
perchlorate, barium perchlorate, ammonium perchlorate, magnesium perchlorate,
potassium perchlorate, sodium perchlorate, potassium nitride, sodium nitride,
ammonium nitride, barium nitride, potassium chlorate, sodium chlorate,
ammonium chlorate, calcium hypochlorite, diacetyl peroxide, dibenzoyl peroxide,
diisopropybenzene peroxide, hydrogen peroxide, benzoyl, (o,m,p)-dinitro benzene,
2-dinitrophenol (DNP), dinitro toluene, dinitronaphthalene, phosphorus
sesquisulfide, phosphorus pentasulfide, red phosphorus, sodium amide

B magnesium nitride, calcium nitride, potassium nitrite, potassium persulfate, sodium

persulfate, ammonium persulfate, sodium perborate, potassium dichromate,
sodium dichromate, calcium permanganate, silver perchlorate, potassium
periodate, sodium bromate, sodium iodate, sodium chlorite, iodic anhydride,
chromium trioxide, phosphorus pentoxide, naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene,
camphor, sulphur, iron powder, aluminium powder, manganese powder, titanium
powder, carbazole, triformol, rosin, 1,2,4,5-tetramethylbenzene,
polyformaldehyde, azodiisobutyronitrile, celluloid, benzidine, thiophene, sodium
benzene sulfonate, polystyrene, polyethylene, polypropylene, epoxy resin, phenolic
resin, polyacrylonitrile, pentaerythrite, nylon, hexanedioic acid, carbon black,
polyurethane, purified terephthalic acid;

C paraffin wax, pitch, phthalic acid, polyester, plexiglass, rubber and its goods, glass
fibre reinforced plastic, polyvinyl alcohol, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene plastic,
styrene-acrylonitrile plastic, vinyl resin, polycarbonate, polyacrylamide,
caprolactam, nylon 6, nylon 66, polypropylene fibre, anthraquinone, (o,m,p)-
diphenol, poly-styrene, polyethylene, polyproplene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC),

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Appendix E
Examples of Fire Hazard Classification for Process Plant and Units
Section 2: Petrochemical Industry
Attach. Table5.2
Class Examples
I. Units for basic organic chemical feedstock and products
A Ethylene and propene unit by tube-furnace (including vertical type, horizontal type
and millisecond type etc.）steam cracking process;
hydrogenizating unit for cracked petrol;
extracting unit for aromatic hydrocarbon;
p-xylene unit
p-xylene die-methyl ester：
epoxy ethane unit
naphatha catalytic reforming unit
hydrogen production unit
cyclohexane unit
vinyl cyanide unit
phenylethylene unit
C4 extracting butadiene unit
butadiene unit by oxidative dehydrogenization of butene
ethyne unit by partial oxidatation of methane
acetaldehyde unit by direct process of ethylene
phenol and acetone unit
chloroethylene unit by oxychlorination process from ethylene
ethanol unit from ethylene by direct hydration;
terephthalic acid unit (purified terephthalic acid unit);
methanol synthesis unit
acetaldehyde tank and acetaldehyde oxidization unit for a acetic acid plant from
cetaldehyde by oxidization
propene tank, propene compression unit, chloridization unit, rectification unit and
hypochlorination units for epoxy chloropropane plant
carbon monoxide tank, hydrogen tank and propene tank, compression unit,
synthesization unit, distilling unit, condensationunit, butanal hydrogenization units
for butanol carbonyl-synthesis plant
carbon monoxide tank, hydrogen tank and propene tank, compression unit, butanal
synthesis unit, condensation dewatering unit, hydrogenization unit of 2-ethyl
hexenoic aldehyde for isooctyl alcohol carbonyl synthesis plant
kerosene hydrogenization unit, molecular sieve dewaxing unit (deadsoption of
pentane, isooctane, p-xylene), alkane (C10~C13) catalytic dehydrogenation unit, HF
catalytic alkylation unit for alkene (C10~C13 ） and benzene, storage and
transportaation unit for benzene, hydrogen, de-adsorbent, liquefied petroleum gas
and light oil etc.;
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Class Examples

acetic acid rectification unit, storage tank and oxygen storage tank units of acetic
acid plant by oxidation from acetaldehyde
acetic oxide plant of acetic acid by cracking
neutralization and cyclization unit, storage tank unit of epoxy chloropropane plant
distilling refining unit, butyl alcohol storage tank unit of butyl alcohol plant by
B
carbonyl synthesis
raw kerosene, dewaxed kerosene, light wax fuel oil storage and transportation unit
units of alkyl benzene plant
alkyl benzene unit and sulfur trioxide sulphonation unit of detergent powder plant

ethandiol evaporation dewatering refining unit, and storage tank unit of ethandiol
plant
isooctyl alcohol distilling refining unit, and storage tank unit of isooctyl alcohol
plant by carbonyl synthesis
hot oil （ biphenyl + biphenyl-ether ） system, neutralization system containing
C
hydrofluoric acid units for alkyl benzene plant
unit of alkyl benzene sulphuric acid and caustic soda, synthesization unit of alkyl-
benzene sodium-sulfate and additive (carbonyl methyl cellulose, trimeric sodium
phosphate, etc..) for synthetic detergent powder plant,

II Synthetic Rubber Industry

storage unit of monomers and chemicals, polymerization unit, monomer recovery
unit, for butadiene styrene rubber and butadiene nitrile rubber plant;
storage unit of monomer, catalyst, chemicals, preparation unit, polymerization unit,
storage and mixing unit of latex, coacervation unit, recovery unit of monomer and
solvent, for ethylene-propylene rubber plant, isopene rubber plant and 3-
A
polybutadiene rubber plant;
vinyl acetylene catalytic synthesis unit from acetylene, catalytic addition unit or
chlorobutadiene unit by chloridization from butadiene, polymerization unit, storage
and mixing unit of latex, coacervation unit for chlorobutadiene rubber plant;

chemicals preparation unit, latex mixing unit, aftertreatment unit (coacervation,

drying, packing), storage and transportation unit for butadiene styrene rubber plant
and butadiene nitrile rubber plant;
C aftertreatment unit (dewatering, drying, packing), storage and transportation unit
for ethylene-propylene rubber plant, 3-polybutadiene rubber plant,
polychloroprene rubber plant and isoprene rubber plant.

III. Resin and Plastic Synthesis

A ethylene storage tank, ethylene compression unit, catalyst preparation unit,
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Class Examples
storage and transportation unit for butadiene, hydrogen, aluminium butyl, purifying
unit, catalyst preparation unit, polymerization unit, solvent recovery unit for low
density polyethylene plant;
storage and transportation unit for ethylene and chemicals, formulation unit,
polymerization unit, alcoholysis unit, filtration unit, solvent recovery unit for low-
pressure polyethylene plant;
storage and transportation unit for chloro ethylene, polymerization unit for
polyvinyl chloride plant
storage and transportation unit for ethyne, methanol, formulation unit, vinyl
synthesis unit, polymerization unit, rectification unit and recovery unit for
polyvinyl alcohol plant;
storage and transportation unit for acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene,
pretreatment unit, formulation unit, polymerization unit and coacervation unit for
acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene plastic plant;
storage and transportation unit for styrene and acrylonitrile, formulation unit,
polymerization dewatering unit and coacervation unit for styrene-acrylonitrile
plastic plant;
storage and transportation unit for propene, catalyst preparation unit,
polymerization unit, flash evaporization unit, drying unit, monomer refining and
recovery units for self-continuous polymerization process polypropene plant; and
storage and transportation unit for propene, catalyst preparation unit,
polymerization unit, alcoholysis unit, washing unit, filtration unit and solvent
recovery unit for solvent process polypropene plant;
storage and transportation unit for acetic acid for polyvinyl alcohol plant;
B

C adulterating unit, packing unit, storage and transportation unit for high-pressure
polyethylene plant;
aftertreatment unit (extrusion pelleting, packing), storage and transportation unit
for low-density polyethylene plant;
aftertreatment (drying, packing), storage and transportation unit for low-pressure
polyethylene plant;
filtration unit, drying unit, packing unit, storage and transportation unit for
polyvinyl chloride plant
drying unit, packing unit, storage and transportation unit for polyvinyl alcohol
plant;
pelleting unit, packing unit, storage and transportation unit for self-continuous-
polymerizing process polystyrene plant;
Drying unit, pelleting unit, packing unit, storage and transportation unit for
acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene plastic and styrene-acrylonitrile plastic plant
pelleting unit, silos, packing unit, storage and transportation unit for self-
continuous-polymerizing process polystyrene plant; and drying unit, adulteration
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Class Examples
plant;

IV Ammonia Synthesis and After Products

synthetic gas（N2+H2+CO）preparation unit by hydrocarbon transformation or by
partial oxidation, sulfur removal unit, shift conversion unit, CO2 removal unit,
copper wash unit, methanation unit, compression unit, synthesis unit, storage tank
A groups for feedstock hydrocarbon and coal gas for ammonia plant;
crystallization or pelleting unit, conveyance unit, packing unit, storage and
transportation units for ammonium nitride plant;

ammonia freezing unit, ammonia absorption unit, liquid ammonia storage tank unit
for ammonia plant
ammonia storage tank, urea synthesis unit, stripping unit, decomposition unit,
absorption unit, liquid ammonia pump, ammonium-carbonmate pump unit for
B ammonia-urea plant;
nitric acid plant;
neutralization unit, concentration unit, ammonia storage and transportation unit for
ammonium nitride plant;

evaporation unit, prilling unit, packing unit, storage and conveyance unit for urea
C synthesis plant;

Section 3: Petrochemical Fibre Industry Attach. Table 5.3

Class Examples
A storage and preparation unit for catalyst and auxiliary agent, ester exchange unit
between dimethyl terephthalate and ethandiol, methanol recovery unit for
polyester fibre plant (DMT process);
oxidation unit of cyclohexane, fractionation unit of cyclohexanol and
cyclohexanone, dehydrogenating unit of cyclohexanol, extractive refining unit of
caprolactam with benzene, storage tank of cyclohexane for polyamide fibre plant
(nylon 6);
storage and conveyance unit of cyclohexane, oxidation unit of cyclohexane,
hexanedioic acid generating unit by oxidation cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone,
hexyl amine generation unit by hydrogenation of hexanedinitrile for nylon 66 plant
storage and conveyance unit, polymerization unit, recovery unit, extraction unit of
acrylonitrile, methyl acrylate, vinyl acetate, diemethylamine, isopropyl ether,
isopropanol for acrylic fibre plant;
extraction unit of sodium sulfocyanate recovery plant, production unit of DMAC;
mid-product storage tank unit, vinyl-actate unit by catalytic synthesis from
acetylene or ethylene and acetic acid, polyvinyl alcohol unit by alcoholysis from
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Class Examples
condensation from methanol for vinylon plant;
storage and formulation unit of catalyst for polymerization plant,
oximing unit of cyclohexanone, Beckmann rearrangement unit for polyamide fibre
(nylon 6) plant;
ammoniating unit of hexanedioic acid, hexanedinitrile unit by dewatering for
B
nylon 66 plant;
store-house for kerosene and sodium hypochlorite

condensation polymerization unit, pelleting unit, silo unit, melting unit, spinning
unit, filament processing unit, mid-product warehouse, end-product warehouse of
p-phthalic glycol ester for polyester fibre plant (DMT process);
esterification、polymerization unit of polyester fibre (PTA process) plant;
chipping unit, silo unit, melting unit, spinning unit, filament processing unit,
storage and conveyance unit for polyamide fibre (nylon 6) plant;
salting unit of ethylene diamine adipate, crystallization unit, melting unit, spinning
unit, filament processing unit, packing unit, storage and conveyance unit for nylon
plant (nylon 66);
C
spinning unit (excluding using NaSCN as solvent), after desiccation unit, filament
processing unit, wool topping unit, packing unit, storage and conveyance unit for
acrylic fibre plant;
melted reeling unit of polyvinyl alcohol, filament processing unit, packing unit,
storage and conveyance unit for vinylon plant;
tows desiccation unit and dry heat tension unit, filament treatment unit, packing
unit and transportation unit for for vinylon plant;
esterification unit, polycondensation unit, prilling unit, spinning unit, filament
process unit, silos, intermediate warehouse, finished product warehous;

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