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Commissioning an internal floating roof tank and prepping for Maintenance
We are putting our first internal floating roof tank into service. Does anyone have any guidance for whether we need to take special precautions for LEL in the upper section of the tank during initial fill. My understanding as as we fill it in order to float it off the legs the vapor will be...- DAWN555
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- Forum: Storage tank engineering
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Putting a internal floating roof tank into service and taking it out of service
We are putting our first internal floating roof tank into service. Does anyone have any guidance for whether we need to take special precautions for LEL in the upper section of the tank during initial fill. My understanding as as we fill it in order to float it off the legs the vapor will be...- DAWN555
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- Replies: 2
- Forum: Chemical plant design & operations
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Vapor Combustion Unit
We are going to install a vapor combustion unit (VCU) for a tank and its loading system. It will be natural draft. Basically a burner at the bottom of a stack. We are having a discussion about whether NFPA 86 or some other NFPA code would cover it. When I look at it, there is a burner inside...- DAWN555
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- Forum: NFPA (fire) Code Issues
