Tank Truck Loading

Application

Tank truck loading occurs in multiple applications: refineries, fuel terminals, chemical plants. Until proper grounding was taken as a countermeasure, static discharge was one other most important reasons for fires and explosions.

 

Typical risks

Typical features for tanks truck loading are:

• Spill fires are to be expected To be monitored are valves, pumps, spill pipes.
• Open fires are to be expected.
• Static electricity and lightning can act as an ignition source.

 

Typical requirements

• The tank truck itself acts as an obstructing object for the detection
• Often a combination of flame detection and a stationary extinguishing installation are mounted.

 

Detector choice: recommended IR3 or UV/IR Flame Detectors.