General Storage Techniques

The safest storage facility is a completely protected singje-story building, well separated from other buildings. TTie only ignition sources to which materials stored in such a facility would be exposed are those from material-handling equipment. 

Within a given building, storage and manufacturing operations should be separated by fire compartments or cutoffs to prevent spread of fires from one area to another. A fire compartment is part of a building which is separated from the rest by fire-resistant walls, ceilings, and fire stops such that a fire can be contained and not spread to adjacent rooms, other floors, or any other part of the building. 

In multistory buildings, upper floors are preferred for storage, because firefighting water could leak from a process-area fire on a higher floor. Materials which must be stored below potential fire sites should be protected by waterproof tarpaulins. 

The NFPA addresses general indoor storage in Standard 231. 

Outdoors, material should be stored under cover if protection is needed from wind, rain or flooding, heat, and ignition from the sim or nearby sparks and fires, or vandalism and theft. Special precautions are necessary with some commodities. These include carbonaceous materials (coal, coke, charcoal), cellulose and fibers (roll paper, pulpwood, wood chips, wastepaper, baled fibers), and rubber (tires, bales). Refer to the NFPA guides for these types of materials. 

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The storage techniques that are possible for solid, liquid, and gaseous samples are presented below. Owing to the diverse nature of sample matrices, it is impossible to give specific guidance for all samples therefore a general approach has been taken here with general advice. The analyst should then tailor this for a specific matrix and analyte combination. 

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