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AALBORG
INDUSTRIES
21-4/60
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HANDLING FUEL OIL OM9280 02#A.2
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However, the following detailed precautions should be rigidly enforced:
• When oil
is
being received, no naked light or electric apparatus liable to spark
should be permitted within 20 meters
of
the oil hose, tank or compartment, con-
taining the tank or the vent from the tank, except when special arrangements are
carried out.
• While receiving fuel oil, the storage tank must be closely watched for leaks, and
care must be taken that all outlets from the tank, except the vents, are closed.
• No naked lights or electric apparatus liable to spark should be permitted at any
time in a compartment containing a fuel oil tank. Electric lamps used
in
such com-
partments should have a wire protector around the bulb or be
of
a type that will
ensure the breaking
of
a circuit through the lamp in the event
of
the lamp being
broken.
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No one should be allowed to enter a fuel oil tank until
it
has been gas-freed, and
any person then entering the tank must have a properly tended life line around his
body in order to be hauled out
if
overcome by gas.
Electric fuses and switches, unless the enclosed type, should not be permitted in
compartments containing fuel oil pumps or piping.
Care must be taken that the wire-gauze protectors in vent pipes from fuel oil tanks
are intact at all times.
Dampers, where fitted in the uptakes
of
the boilers, must be kept fully open while
burning oil. Otherwise, this may result in dangerous accumulation
of
gas in the
furnace with a resultant blowing out into the boiler or engine room.
The valves on glass gauges in fuel oil storage or settling tanks should be kept
habitually shut. When a reading
of
the gauge
is
desired, the valves may be opened,.
but must be shut again at once.
In each boiler or engine room fitted for oil burning there should be fire extin-
guishing apparatus in accordance with the requirements/rules from the authorities'
and classification societies in question such as, e.g.: Fire hose, permanently cou-
pled and
of
sufficient length to reach all parts
of
the boiler or engine room, and
either:
(a) a box containing at least 85 litres
(2
cubic ft)
of
dry sand with a large scoop
(b) a chemical fire extinguisher
of
the tank type
• When the fuel oil system has not been in use for a long period,
or
after joints in
the piping have been re-made, the system should be tested "cold" under a pressure
at least equal to the working pressure before fires are ignited. During the test a
careful inspection for leaks should be carried out.
• Fuel oil should not be habitually heated above 65°C for light oils and 120°C for
heavy oils and never above its flash point in any part
of
the system except in the
burners.
• Care must
be,
taken to prevent accumulation
of
oil or vapour
in
any place outside
the system and in ships particularly in bilges under the furnace. This can be ac-
complished by rigid cleanliness.
Language
UK
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