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Environmental Impact Assessment Of A Proposed Tankfarm
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Tankfarm is also known as an oil depot or oil terminal, a facility for
storage of petroleum products or petrochemical products from which these
products are usually transported to end users for further storage
facilities. An oil tankfarm typically has tanks or either above or under
the ground and gantries for the discharge of products into road tankers
or other vehicles such as barges or pipelines. Tankfarms are usually
situated close to oil refineries or locations where marine tankers or
vessels containing products discharge their cargo.
A Tankfarm is a
comparatively unsophisticated facility in that (in most cases) there is
no processing or other transformation on site. The products which reach
the depot from refinery are in their final form suitable for delivery to
customers. Modern Tankfarms comprise the same types of tanks, pipelines
and gantries as those in the past and although there is a greater
degree of automation in site, there have been significant changes in
depot operational activities over time (Wikipedia 2013).
One of the
key imperatives of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) is that the
operators of a Tankfarm must ensure that products are safely stored and
handled. There must be no leakages which could damage the soil or the
table water and these forms of undesirable activities gives rise to the
analysis of some predictable and unpredictable impacts of Tankfarm to
the existing environments and thus brought about the delivery of this
project.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study was carried out to assess environmental impacts of a proposed tankfarm which is to be situated at the Olokola Free Trade Zone in Ondo State (OKFTZ).It encompasses various field sampling which includes soil, air and noise sampling taken from the proposed site. These samples were tested in the laboratory for parameters such as Total Hydro Carbon, pH values, Total Mean Percentage of Organic Matter, Heavy Metal Investigation, cation concentration. The Total Hydro Carbon which ranges from ... Continue reading---
