Fuel retail construction is expanding quickly across parts of Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and the way underground piping is specified in those projects is maturing at the same time. A few years ago a specification might have named a pipe diameter and left the rest to the contractor. Today buyers are asking […]
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Retail fuel sites are being asked to handle products that did not exist in their original design brief, and that affects underground piping decisions made years before the first delivery. Even where a site has no immediate alternative fuel project, the direction of travel in fuel retailing is clear enough that piping projects are increasingly
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Blower noise complaints are awkward because the unit is often working correctly while the installation is not. A blower that was quiet in the workshop can become intrusive on a forecourt within days, and the usual reaction is to blame the machine. In practice, most noise and vibration problems come from mounting, flow conditions, liquid
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Stage III vapor recovery for vehicle refuelling is not a single technology. It splits into systems that actively pull vapour back to the tank and systems that rely on pressure and flow balance without a powered vapour pump, and the right choice depends far more on station throughput and layout than on any general preference.
Active or Passive Stage III Vapor Recovery: Choosing for Small Stations Read More »
Containment hardware around a fuel system is often specified separately from the piping itself, which is how projects end up with good pipe and weak details. Spill buckets, dispenser sumps and tank sumps are only useful if the piping penetrations through them are sealed properly, and that is where composite pipe systems differ from steel
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