Petroleum Equipment Forum

The best place price wise for flow meters would be E-Bay.

Then maybe use a Dwyer (9475-3-fm) digital manometer. Good enough to test tanks their manometer should be able to test PV valves.

Why not just buy a couple of Dwyer gages a hand air pump and make your own? The simple drawing plan is on California Air Resource Boards (CARB) website.

Leak detector just or line leak detector?

Nitrogen is an effective means to store volatile substances especially diesel fuels disposed to oxidation issues. Tank blanketing with nitrogen (an inert dry gas) is a safe and reliable technique to remove two legs of the corrosion (oxygen and moisture) triangle. Humid and moist air (oxygen) in the ...

Chances for Diesel Tank Fuel Contamination and Corrosion Being Ever Present

Simple and a No Brainer


Drain Water From It - Filter It - Monitor and Blanket It with Nitrogen

Probably Not. There are far more pollution producing constituents entering our environment attributed to motor vehicles than gas stations.

LEL meters can be expensive and more so to maintain in calibration. If needed unless the number of tanks removed justify they are initially a lot less expensive to rent when needed and determining their worth.

Interesting that now after trying to cure symptoms and tanks rotting away, tank owners start attacking the root causes of the problem. Some well known Communication companies and Municipalities now simply dry gas blanketing their gasoline, diesel equipment, generator base and nurse tanks to combat c...

Slow only after a bulk delivery? Is there an extended tube directing pressure relief liquids attached to motor column of the pump? If so a likely issue being as the tank is loaded the fuel level rises and with the pump off the pressure in the motor column attached (rising back) pressure relief tube ...