Impact and Lessons Learned from Pipeline Incident - a Case Study of Petrochemical Pipeline Explosions in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

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外文摘要：Pipeline system is very important to transportation infrastructure。 It is vulnerable to earthquake and man-made disasters in Taiwan。 Because there is no strictly regulation to the petrochemical pipeline safety outside the industrial area， therefore a part of hazardous material transportation has to pass through some populous areas， such as Kaohsiung City。 The consequences of pipeline accident is widely， such as fire， explosion， road and lifelines system destruction， tension in petrochemical industry supply etc。 A petrochemical pipeline explosion occurred on July 31， 2014 in Kaohsiung City。 Thirty-two people， include 7 policeman and fireman， were killed and 321 people were injured in this accident。 It is the most severe public safety pipeline accident in recent years。 This paper briefly describes this incident and its causes， lessons learnt from this accident and proposes some improvement issues， which includes pipeline safety regulations， inspection and maintenance of pipeline facility integrity， and enhance pipeline disaster management。

外文关键词：

InfrastructureHazardous MaterialPipeline Integrity Management

作者：

M.C. Teng

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作者单位：

National Science & Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, Earthquake and Manmade Disasters Reduction Division, 9F., No. 200, Sec.3, Beixin Rd., Xindian District, New Taipei City 23143, Taiwan, R.O.C.

会议名称：

Asia Pacific Transportation Development Conference;ICTPA Annual Conference

会议地点：

Hsinchu(CN)

会议母体文献：

Bridging the East and West: Theories and Practices of Transportation in the Asia Pacific

页码：

236-241

出版时间：

2016