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Tank Truck Grounding
The loading and unloading of tank trucks with flammable and combustible products, presents one of the most serious fire and explosion risks for site operations within the hazardous process industries. A study conducted by the American Petroleum Institute (API) in 1967 identified static discharges as being responsible for over 60 incidents in tank truck loading operations and demonstrates just how long this potential threat has been acknowledged. The natural presence of static electricity in product transfer operations, combined with its associated ignition hazards, ensures that regulators take static control precautions for tank trucks very seriously.
March 4, 2019
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How to move up the safety curve from basic clamps and cables on a budget
Protecting workers and company assets from ignitions caused by static electricity can’t be left to chance. In facilities where flammable and combustible products are processed, there’s a very high probability that static electricity is generated by the movement of gases, liquids and solids. The risks of a fire or explosion caused by a discharge of static electricity in an EX/HAZLOC area are just too significant to ignore. To emphasise its significance static electricity is identified in North American and European legislation as a potential source of ignition in potentially flammable and combustible atmospheres.
March 4, 2019
Safety
You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to safeguard against the hazards of static electricity.
For any person responsible for the safety of employees, colleagues, plant equipment and plant property, one of the most potentially confusing aspects of providing a safe operating environment is trying to determine if that site’s manufacturing or handling processes have the potential to discharge static sparks into flammable or combustible atmospheres.. Electrostatics is a detailed subject area that, for most of us, appears to be a black art accessible only to academics and experienced process safety consultants. Because static ignition hazards occur at the “nuclear level”, it is naturally difficult to visualise how and why static electricity is a hazard in industries where flammable and combustible products are regularly processed.
March 1, 2019
Operations
Static grounding protection for Tank Cars
Static electricity: what’s the big deal? Let’s start with static electricity itself. The clue is in the term. Static electricity is, essentially, electricity that is static. It is electricity that is temporarily “stuck” in the same position. It’s made of the same “stuff” that powers your refrigerator or lighting, but its characteristics are different to the line power delivered to your home or place of work.
February 28, 2019
Safety
Static Discharge Ignition of Combustible Atmosphere
Discharges of static electricity from hoses are known to cause the ignition of combustible atmospheres during the transfer of material to or from vacuum trucks and tanker trucks. There are normally three main reasons why discharges of static electricity from hoses can occur. One reason is that standard non-conductive hoses are incorrectly used to transfer material. Non-conductive hoses are capable of accumulating and retaining high levels of static charge which can result in incendive brush discharges from the hose itself, or the charging of isolated conductive objects attached to the hose like a nozzle or coupling that can discharge a spark themselves.
January 25, 2019
Safety
An Industrial Buyer’s Guide to Protecting against the Ignition Hazards of Static Electricity
Hazop assessments, and the reports that follow on from them, are a great way of capturing and identifying processes and practices that could lead to the ignition of flammable atmospheres through discharges of static electricity. What Hazop reports are not so great at doing is identifying what the grounding solution to eliminate the risk should look like.
January 25, 2019
Operations
Mobile Ground Verification
This article will explore the current methods used to provide static grounding protection for vehicles operating in locations that do not have installed, or correctly specified, static ground monitoring systems. Although primarily designed to provide all trucks with mobile static ground verification capability, the Earth-Rite® MGV has proven to be a success for vacuum trucks used by contractors providing cleaning, spill and material recovery services to companies with classified hazardous areas. The MGV is also utilised on trucks that must collect from, or deliver product to, locations that do not have satisfactory static grounding protection for tank trucks in place.
January 25, 2019
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Application Spotlight Earth-Rite® MULTIPOINT II Grounding multiple components in powder processing operations.
Powder processing operations can generate vast quantities of electrostatic charge via the movement of powder. The standard method of charging on powder processing operations is due to tribo-electrification, which is basically the contact and separation of the powder with processing equipment, the powder itself or other factors that can cause charging, like surface contaminants. There are numerous types of equipment that can cause the charging of powders. Such equipment includes, but is notlimited to those detailed in Table 1.
January 21, 2019
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Application Spotlight Earth-Rite® FIBC Static grounding protection for Type C FIBC located in potentially flammable/combustible gas or dust atmospheres
Type C bags are designed to dissipate static electricity through static dissipative threads that are interwoven through the bag’s material. Grounding tabs located on the bags are points where grounding systems can be connected to ensure static electricity does not accumulate on the bag. To ensure bags destined for use in hazardous areas will not accumulate static electricity to hazardous levels there are several standards that provide guidance on the key parameters to which Type C bags must comply.
January 21, 2019
Operations
Application Spotlight OhmGuard - Hose continuity tester
The metal components of hoses used in flammable product transfer operations have the potential to accumulate static electricity if they are not bonded to a grounded road tanker truck or vacuum truck. Examples of metal components that have a potential to accumulate hazardous levels of electrostatic charge are end couplings and metal wire helixes that run through the structure of the hose. If components like these become isolated they can accumulate static electricity and rapidly build up to a voltage capable of discharging a static spark into the potentially combustible atmosphere in which the driver and truck is operating.
January 21, 2019
Automotive
Application Spotlight Earth-Rite ® MGV - Mobile Ground Verification for Trucks
How can I safely ground my truck in places where there’s no grounding system to do it for me? Trucks transferring flammable products require static grounding protection to prevent the build-up of static electricity on the truck or equipment, like hoses, that are connected to the truck. If static electricity is allowed to build up on the truck the discharge of a static spark becomes a very real, but unseen, ignition hazard. In terminals equipped with loading racks, static grounding systems ensure static electricity cannot accumulate on the truck during loading or unloading.
January 21, 2019
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Toluene ignites from spark during vacuum truck transfer
June 19, 2018
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Protecting against the Ignition Hazards of Static Electricity
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Why static electricity is a credible ignition source
April 10, 2018