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Abstract Every process industry’ utilizes at least onJe or more petreleum fuels. Power stat~ons are operated with diesel fue] (solar)’. While,. gaseline and kerosene ar~ ’used as metor’ fuels in’ vehicles employed for tran’spo:rtim’g labourers arnd geods. Though petrou:eum fuels are lemoWIT” tto: attack metallic _ tan’ks, few attempts have been’ made to’ utilize fibre’ rein¬ferced plast’ics (FRP) in’ constructing fuel tanks; inspite of the enO’rmeu1s applicatioms of” FRP in: variou1s in’dl’stries. This might be attributed to’ the flammable nature af plastics. The aim ”of this research is to utilize FRP for the con- structiorn ef’ petroleum: vessels. TO’ reach this goal a comprehemsive theeratical study C?f the different Plastics, fibres and methods ef processing was ne de. A practical invest:igationl ef the effect ef variou’s parameters on- the tensile strength (lJminate t’hickn-ess, glass fibre type, and adhesionrbetweenl epoxy--polyester an,d epoxy-aluminium feils) and flammabili ty Cresi~, type, laminate thickness, qua~tz powder and al\1min:ium foil) of: the laminet:es was carried ourt. The author has SUcceeded in retarding flamma bili ty bY’ app’l’ying either q’uartz-pewder er aluminium fo’il 0111 the surfa’cet of the la’mina’te s, and- has developed a n -elll techn1ique for evaluating the surface fla,rnmability. tatistical methods an1d numerica’I an’alysis have utilized throughout the whole ~.,ork ta, evaluate the results. F1-onI’ the experimental Nork and literature surveY’” the aut-nor recommend~ employing gla’ss fIbre reiDJfo~rce polyestter:... epoxY’ laminates fO’r petroleum fuelsr ra’ther tham the’ tradi tional meta’Ilic tanks, for the follo~”,ing reason’s: 1. FR polyester epoxies are not arfected (tensile sttFength~ ~lexura] strength, impact: resistrance” abra-siom resistance’, flamrna.:bilitty’, a’b-sorption, specific gravity and resim content) byr the petrroleum fuel-€! •. 2. FRP tanks have low thermal conductivities. II’D. case’ o~• fires set inl the n’eighbourhood,. this property” offers good security against. explosion. As the temperature or the petroleum contents of’ FRP tanks change slightlY’ .r wi th heat; in contrast to’ the met’allic tanks, which \. have high thermal conductivities. |