Posted on 05/05/2010 10:57:54 AM PDT by TXnMA
Ground cables - makes me then wonder about their grounding system. Every truck loading terminal that I had worked on had a grounding monitor. The truck grounding cable was connected to the monitor (look up Scully Groundhog). If a proper grounding connection was not maintained, the control logic would not permit product loading.
http://www.scully.com/cgi-bin/pdf/60733_desc.pdf
OSHA is going to be on this one, as well as Texas.
BTW, I do not work for Scully Signal, nor market their products. I am an applications engineer.
Can you please post a source? When I researched this I got very different numbers (more like one disaster every few years)
thank you for the facts
I wonder if someone forgot to “ground” the truck and a spark set things off?
NO, he'll just take them over...and put his own brilliant managers in.
$5/gal gas = double dip recession x (labor force - RIFs) = official October unemployment rate > 12%.
A formula for democrat slaughter in November.
I just filled up with Supreme yesterday. $3.38/gallon. I know I wasn’t hallucinating. Chevron.
We might reach that $4.00 a gallon mark sooner than that given the number of incidents of late.
Testing the paper tiger?????
let’s move on here...cause: a foreclosure.
I agree, spraying Raid on the fascist insect Obama administration is a great idea.
Given that he has never released any college transcripts it would be hard to say what our expectations should be based on past performance. However, based on job performance thus far, seriously failed on all measures.
I wonder what their reaction would be if they found out how many cars burst into flames from static electricity touching off fumes while filling up?
I know!
We have been on the track of this particular culprit for quite a while now!
You’re just over cautious.
Irrelevant. There should be a grounding wire connecting the source and sink containers Connecting that wire first brings the entire system to the same potential. Since the entire syatem is an excellent conductor, the charge generated by the viscous flow dissipates and appears on the outside surfaces of the system which contains the Earth's surface. Since the system is a good conductor, the charge will quickly recombine though currents in the conductive containers/piping.
Also, sparks do not occur inside of a tank from one area of a wall to another, or from one area of a fluid to a wall. Any field resulting from the charge on the tank appears on the outside of the tank, not on the inside. The field inside is zero, which mans no sparks are possible.
All that can be lit up is the fumes being initially displaced from the tank. ...if they are at a temp above the flash point for a high enough concentration AND there is a source of ignition provided. Since the driver attached the ground wire, there is no source of ignition, except those provided deliberately.
I see $4.00 a gal by summer...
If that’s what it takes to drive the final stake thru the heart of the Obama Regime, let it come
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