UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF FIRE AND EXPLOSION SAFETY OF ENERGY RESOURCES (LPG AND LNG) AS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUCCESS OF THE ENERGY STRATEGY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

The article considers the prospects (and urgent need is substantiated) of production expansion and especially export expansion of liquefied petroleum fuels of Fuel and Energy Complex (FEC) of Russia. The article notes the considerable lag of normative framework providing fire and explosion safety of objects related to the large tonnage turnover of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), especially in ensuring measures to prevent explosions during the accidents at these objects, in providing techniques and methods of fire-fighting of cryogenic flammable liquids and technological methods of elimination of consequences of such accidents. The article describes the specific structural, situational, thermodynamic and thermophysical characteristics of the objects related to the turnover of LPG and LNG, these substances themselves and potential serious consequences of such accidents caused by these substances. The final part of the article presents the results of authors'research on the development of innovative technologies to prevent (or cardinal reduce the power) explosions during accidents of this kind, development of new techniques and methods of fire-fighting of cryogenic flammable liquids: and technological methods and means of fire and explosion safety elimination of consequences of these accidents. The article also proposes specific types and settings of fire-technical and fire-fighting equipment for realization of new technologies to prevent explosions, fire-fighting and elimination of the consequences of serious accidents on the objects of FEC related to the turnover of LPG and LNG.