Expedient Measures in Postattack Industrial Recovery: Petroleum Refining

Abstract

Definitions, assumptions, and needs for procedures and facilities for the rapid recovery of the United States, petroleum-based fuel industry in a nuclear, postattack environment are explained. Principal components of a typical refinery and two versions of an expedient crude oil unit (ECOU) are identified, along with their damage levels incurred with respect to nuclear blast, static overpressures. Repair or reconstruction efforts and schedules for primarily recovery essential diesel fuel are compared between the typical refinery and the ECOU versions. Expedient, preattack component hardening, critical components requiring stockpiling consideration, and component substitutions for ECOU construction are briefly discussed. Recommendations to evaluate infrastructural and other damage mechanism influences on the expedient recovery concept and to expand that concept to other essential industrial sectors in the United States are offered.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA108600

Entities

People

  • Carl F. Miller
  • S. Duane Stratton

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Blast
  • Bricks
  • Civil Defense
  • Construction
  • Construction Equipment
  • Diesel Fuels
  • Engineers
  • Fuel Oils
  • Management Personnel
  • Materials
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Petroleum
  • Petroleum Industry
  • Plastic Explosives
  • United States

Readers

  • Economics
  • Nuclear Civil Defense.
  • Petroleum Engineering