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Brand: VMI Manufacturing, LLCThe NBS system is designed to prevent the formation of corrosive, damaging atmospheres in retail and commercial fuel storage tanks.
The NBS system is an intrinsically safe Environmental Corrosion Control method that inhibits or prevents the growth of bacteria, molds and yeasts that may occur in the ullage of tanks and produce acidic deposits that cause serious damage and failures to tank equipment.
Typically, retail tanks store routine and custom blends of diesel and biodiesel, gasoline and ethanol, and other commercial liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
Additionally, these tanks are usually 50,000-gallon capacity or less, low pressure, and may be installed above or below ground.
Nitrogen gas blanketing of the head-space of tanks has proven to have many benefits.
One such benefit is how the NBS changes the tank’s environment to prevent the conditions that provide water for germination and oxygen for respiration for colonies to grow.
Eliminating water and oxygen prevents serious damage that has led to failure of fuel storage containment boundaries - leaking primaries.
API 2000 6th and 7th Editions address environmental corrosion control for large fuel tanks.
These protocols are in proven use at refineries, bulk fuel storage facilities, bulk fuel transfer terminals and airports worldwide.
The consensus of a group of state regulators, fuelling system component manufacturers, and operators of retail and commercial fuelling sites is that the conditions causing corrosion damage to fuelling system components in retail market fuel storage equipment can best be addressed by adapting API environmental corrosion control - API 2000 6th and 7th editions protocols.
These adapted protocols should be one part of a comprehensive program that seeks to identify corrosive environments and prevent or stop damage to retail fuelling equipment.
Features- Reducing or Eliminating the Risk Hazards Identified in the CRC Project No. CM-138-12-1
- Ignition of Vent Stack Vapors Both into the Head-space of the Tank and those that Could Occur on the Forecourt as the Stage 1 Vapor Recovery is Overwhelmed, not Functioning Correctly, or not Functioning at All.
- Direct Ignition by Electrical Malfunction or Manual Tank Gauging Static Discharge.
- Nozzle Fire Flashback into the Fuel Tank Head-space.
- One Other Known Benefit is the Reduced Loss of Product as Nitrogen is Vented Out of the Tank, Rather than Fuel Vapors. the Reduction of Lost Fuel is, in Fact, Gained Product. We will be Working to Quantify this as per Throughput.