loss of oil during transportation
loss of oil during transportation
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Can anyone help me to give information regarding the acceptable level of oil loss during transportation (by sea tanker)? Currently we use "magic number" of 0.5 % but I dont know where the number comes from. Is there any international standard or any reference on that matter?
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RE: loss of oil during transportation
It has to do with differences in inventory transfer. If you were transferring discrete units (coconuts, tractors) the "acceptable loss" would be 0. Bulk tranfers (barrels, kg, tonne, liters) have a lot of inherent factors that reduce exact measurement.
RE: loss of oil during transportation
If temperature increased you could get a + change. The volume received would be more than the volume shiped.
For transformer oil, the expansion is
Thermal Expansion, 68-158degF ml/ml/degF 0.0004
For 20degF change in temperature, I calculate a 0.8% change in volume.