Standard petrol - anti static additives or just rely on earthing..?
Standard petrol - anti static additives or just rely on earthing..?
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dear petrol experts.
I am a process engineer from the chemical industry. I apologies if this is an obvious question to those in oil and gas.
For petrol or gasoline do you solely rely on earthling /grounding at gas stations to prevent fires or do you use anti static chemicals.
It's clearly a safe operation(otherwise more fires would be on tv) but I am trying to compare to a typical chemical plant. We inert all vessels containing hydrocarbons and those processing chemicals above their flash point. This is clearly not practical for petrol used in cars... so i'd like to better understand this.
I am a process engineer from the chemical industry. I apologies if this is an obvious question to those in oil and gas.
For petrol or gasoline do you solely rely on earthling /grounding at gas stations to prevent fires or do you use anti static chemicals.
It's clearly a safe operation(otherwise more fires would be on tv) but I am trying to compare to a typical chemical plant. We inert all vessels containing hydrocarbons and those processing chemicals above their flash point. This is clearly not practical for petrol used in cars... so i'd like to better understand this.





RE: Standard petrol - anti static additives or just rely on earthing..?
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RE: Standard petrol - anti static additives or just rely on earthing..?
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RE: Standard petrol - anti static additives or just rely on earthing..?
At the gasoline station, the nozzel is metal and there are metal wires that bond the car to the pump system will flowing. The cell phone was thought to be the cause of car fires, but as it turns out, its static discharge between the person (mostly women) and the nozzel when touching the nozzel after the car fill up. Always touch the car away from the fill nozzel before touching the nozzel.
When loading airplanes, they bond the load truck with the plane, then ground the truck so that ststic electricity gets a path all the way to ground.
RE: Standard petrol - anti static additives or just rely on earthing..?
However I do agree with your description of a commercial a/c loading procedure via a refueling truck.
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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world's energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies) http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/
RE: Standard petrol - anti static additives or just rely on earthing..?
RE: Standard petrol - anti static additives or just rely on earthing..?
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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world's energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies) http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/
RE: Standard petrol - anti static additives or just rely on earthing..?
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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world's energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies) http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/
RE: Standard petrol - anti static additives or just rely on earthing..?
On a humid day, I'd ground then bond. But this my over thought out method.
RE: Standard petrol - anti static additives or just rely on earthing..?
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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world's energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies) http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/
RE: Standard petrol - anti static additives or just rely on earthing..?
RE: Standard petrol - anti static additives or just rely on earthing..?
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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world's energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies) http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/