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Tank Overfill Protection and Safety Integrity Level

Monday, December 20th, 2010

The 2005 Buncefield incident was a result of gasoline overfill from a tank (#912) at Buncefield oil storage and transfer depot. A contributing cause for this incident was failure of servo level gauge to indicate high level in the tank - on the day of the incident the gauge indicated static level when the level ...

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