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European Parliament and Council Directive 94/63/EC of 20 December 1994 on the control of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions resulting from the storage of petrol and its distribution from terminals to service stations
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This provision shall not apply to tanks linked to a vapour recovery unit which conforms with the requirements set out in Annex II, point 2.
fixed-roof tanks connected to the vapour recovery unit in conformity with the requirements of Annex II; or
designed with a floating roof, either external or internal, equipped with primary and secondary seals to meet the performance requirements set down in point 2.
be connected to a vapour-recovery unit in conformity with the requirements of Annex II; or
have an internal floating roof with a primary seal which should be designed to achieve an overall containment of vapours of 90 % or more in relation to a comparable fixed-roof tank with no vapour controls.
This provision does not apply to top-loading tankers as long as that loading system is permitted.
At terminals which load petrol onto vessels, a vapour incineration unit may be substituted for a vapour recovery unit if vapour recovery is unsafe or technically impossible because of the volume of return vapour. The requirements concerning atmospheric emissions from the vapour recovery unit shall also apply to the vapour incineration unit.
At terminals with a throughput of less than 25 000 tonnes/year, intermediate storage of vapours may be substituted for immediate vapour recovery at the terminal.
For vapour recovery units, installed before 1 January 1993, the United Kingdom may grant a derogation from the limit value of 35 g/Nm3 for any one hour, set down in this Annex, subject to the following conditions:
the installation shall meet a limit value of 50 g/Nm3 for any one hour measured according to the specifications set down in this Annex,
the derogation shall expire at the latest nine years from the date referred to in Article 10 of the Directive,
the Commission shall be notified of the individual installations affected by this derogation including information on their throughput of petrol and vapour emissions from the installation.
The Member States' competent authorities must ensure that the measurement and analysis methods and their frequency are established.
The measurements must be made over the course of one full working day (seven hours minimum) of normal throughput.
Measurements may be continuous or discontinuous. If discontinuous measurements are employed, at least four measurements per hour must be made.
The overall measurement error due to the equipment used, the calibration gas and the procedure used must not exceed 10 % of the measured value.
The equipment used must be capable of measuring concentrations at least as low as 3 g/Nm3.
The precision must be at least 95 % of the measured value.
Vapours displaced by the delivery of petrol into storage installations at service stations and in fixed-roof tanks used for the intermediate storage of vapours must be returned through a vapour-tight connection line to the mobile container delivering the petrol. Loading operations may not take place unless the arrangements are in place and properly functioning.
API Recommended Practice 1004
Seventh Edition, November 1988.
Bottom loading and vapour recovery for MC-306 tank motor vehicles (Section 2.1.1.1 — Type of adapter used for bottom loading)
API Recommended Practice 1004
Seventh Edition November 1988.
Bottom loading and vapour recovery for MC-306 tank motor vehicles (Section 4.1.1.2 — Vapour-recovery adapter)
The loading gantry must be equipped with an overfill-detection control unit which, when connected to the vehicle, must provide a fail-safe permission signal to enable loading, providing no compartment-overfill sensors detect a high level.
Loading must not be permitted unless a permissive signal is provided by the combined earth/overfill control unit.
In the event of an overfill condition or a loss of vehicle earth, the control unit on the gantry must close the gantry-loading control valve.
Loading must not be permitted unless the vapour-collection hose has been connected to the vehicle and there is a free passage for the displaced vapours to flow from the vehicle into the plant vapour-collection system.
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