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[deep_the_creep]

Hello everybody,

 

I have just started working on an oil and gas project.I need to install fusible plug loop system on a 12 meter crude oil storage tanks and i dont know how.So need your help to understand the system.I need clarity in following things:

1.Components of fusible plug loop system

2.Criteria to choose fusible plugs.

3.Instrument to detect when fusible plug melts

4.Where do i need to place fusible loop??Weather inside or outside of a tank????

[breizh]

http://www.pneumoidr...FC_2011_ENG.pdf

 

Consider this resource including an email address to contact the vendor, many more using Google.

Hope this helps

Breizh

Edited by breizh, 09 July 2013 - 01:20 AM.

[Lowflo]

Before using a fusible plug, consider the objective of your design.What are you trying to accomplish? The fusible plug is, of course, a non-reclosing device, activated only by fire. If the objective is to prevent the tank from overpressuring during a fire, then emptying it on the ground (thru the open fusible plug) is probably worse than risking tank failure.

 

When applied properly, fusible plugs can be used as a layer of protection during fire exposure, but understand that they're not a substitute for a relief device. that is, they don't satisfy the code requirements for a relief device. There are no pressure vessel or tank codes that recognize fusible plugs as a relief device.