TANK FARM AND FLUIDS, MIXTURES, AND HYDROCARBONS DISTRIBUTION

OMNIATEX is manufacturing tank farm for the stoking and automatic distribution of hydrocarbons, mixtures, inks and any kind of fluids. During the years have been supplied several tank farms with a capacity from 60.000 to 250.000 liters of solvent and OMNIATEX has supplied, in 2002, the first tank farm in Italy that has been approved by the Provincial and Regional Firefighting Departments for its construction “above the ground” instead of the usual requirement that the construction should be “underground”.

When hydrocarbon or hydrocarbons mixtures are involved all the plant is conforming to the ATEX regulation.

The pumping station is supplying automatically the feed of the fluid in the different shop departments, can make any type of operation, with several pumps, between each tank and to perform automatically the loading and unloading of the tankers.

Special car, during the design, is used to avoid that the speed of the fluid inside the pumping pipe, produces an electrostatic charge, very dangerous when a flammable liquid is pumped.

Each feed is controlled by a Massic flow meter and, when required, any single amount of liquid can be set before starting the operation. The set quantity start the automatic feeding of the liquid and when the desired amount is matched, the system stops in stand by, ready for a new fluid requirement from the shop. All pumps are each provided with an electric box with a key to cut the power supply locally.

Full instrumentation prevents any overflow from a tank, sending the excess amount of liquid to a tank, of the same family, that can accept the extra quantity of flow. A special system for each tank prevent also that the accumulation of the absorbed water, settled by temperature difference, be sucked by a pump.

The power and control electrical panel is supplied with a Touchscreen monitor with graphic pages and an LCD recorder. The plant can be connected in a Netware loop to be commanded from far away and to send, anywhere, all the operational data.

When the power supply is cut, special safety chains allow emergency manual operation and the internal main safety of the panel is Fail Safe. The panel can be located in a safe control room or even in a dangerous area, being in this case, supplied in pressurized version with full certification for the type of Zone where is located.

The special acid sewer system, always with settling and fire breaker pits, is specially designed to avoid that spills and drains can contaminate the environment. Several operations are controlled by safeties that are affecting loading-unloading operations of the tanker, that is also checked by a grounding measuring system and controlled by an inert gas safety system.

The plant loading arms, fully pivoting, make a vapors closet circuit with the tank farm, avoiding the emission into the atmosphere of polluting vapors.