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Marine GangwaysTrack Mounted Folding StairsFixed Access Platforms and Stairs
Bridging the variable gap between the jetty and ship, ship to ship or platform to ship. Our Marine Gangways are custom designed for each application.
This system utilises a unique track and barrier system to allow a folding star to traverse over any distance, providing flexible access onto tanker tops where long loading racks are used.
Safe and robust access to tanker tops for operator convenience. A customer driven specification provides an inexpensive and safe system for inspection or loading operations.
Custom Meter Skid SystemsTilting Vertically Elevating PlatformVertically Elevating Platform
Carbis Loadtec supply packaged metering systems to provide the customer with point of transfer volumetric or mass metering of liquids. The skids can also have pumps included and be provided as mobile units if required. The range of materials and methods of metering are configured to suit customer requirements.
The tilting system is the pinnacle of tanker top safe operations. It raises and lowers vertically through a 1.5m range and can tilt each end to correct for sloping tanker tops. It can be custom designed to suit a range of lengths and widths. Supplied fully galvanised as standard or painted according to customer specification.
This system provides absolute safety for operators working on tanker tops by providing a walk surface over the entire tanker top that can be simply li�ed up where necessary to provide access to the tanker connections. Handling Loading Arms and Hoses just became a lot easier.
Storage Tank Floating Suction UnitsSafety Breakaway Couplings
Floating suction units are used in storage tanks to allow suction of the product near to the liquid surface level, avoiding intake of water or sediments that accumulate at the bottom of a tank.
Mitigate against an un-planned drive-away during liquid transfer operations. The breakaway coupling will part before damage occurs to the hose or loading arm and will seal the line, preventing spillage.
Intelligent Earth Monitoring Systems provide an extra layer of assurance. If the truck is not correctly earthed or if the clamp is dislodged, the permissive signal is lost and the load stops.
Electronic Earthing & Grounding
Autoload ® Automatic Loading Arms
The future of tank truck loading. Completely robotic, operator-free movement which leads to definable payback and maintenance savings. The Autoload ® arm is capable of handling all liquids and is custom designed to your specification.
Carbis Loadtec have an extensive range of road and rail tanker loading and unloading arms. These range from standard API configuration bottom loaders to PTFE lined, heated and insulated arms with vapour recovery. We can provide arms for almost every liquid, ensuring safe and clean bulk transfer operations.
In cases where infrequent access is required or tanker positions are not fixed, the Mobile Access Cart will provide safe access to tanker tops of varying height. Ideally used for sample taking and inspection of bond seals, the MAC has foam filled 16” wheels, an aluminium cage and galvanised steel chassis.
Mobile Access Carts Tanker Loading Arms
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Paul Gibbs is the managing partner and owner of Xtreme Tank Technologies, a company he believes is about to change the face of the hydrocarbon storage
business forever, thanks to its new tool. Although in this case new is misleading,
because although it’s just hitting the global market now, Gibbs spent thirty years designing and field testing it. His original patent was 1990 – but when he received his first patent he was far ahead of his time. The terms ‘greenhouse gases’ and ‘volatile organic compounds’ were not being used every day in the oil and gas industry.
But now they are. In fact they’re at the forefront of the entire industry’s mind. Which is why Gibbs thinks he’s on to something hugely significant: “I can
honestly say that I have the answer when dealing with carbon capture on tanks. Whether the tank is fixed roof or floating roof we capture gases on them all, doing away with any leakage of gas whatsoever.”
An impressive claim indeed, but he’s not finished there: “I also work with this same tank tool to extinguish tank fires. It can detect them in seconds. There is zero splash of hydrocarbons when fire foam is sent to tanks. Every gallon of fire foam sent shows up inside the tank. There is no wind carrying foam streams away. The fire foam does not travel through high temperatures and become destroyed due to temperature.”
What’s more, he says the tanks can be extinguished with “exceptional speed”, because he says the tool lays the fire foam gently where it needs to be placed, on top of
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“The Xtreme Tank Technologies Vapour Control Tool could serve as a key, if not revolutionary, product in the large-diameter, aboveground storage tank industry”, says Gibbs. But how does it work?
At present, the AST industry relies entirely on an external floating roof with annular space rim seals, or an internal floating roof with annular space rim seal and an external fixed roof of either steel or, in some cases, an aluminium geodesic dome.
The only floating roof style that complete eliminates the problems of vapours and subsequently RVP and o�-
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gassing is a full-contact floating roof. These come in the steel, aluminium and composite types. All three are expensive. With heavy steel roofs with smaller tank diameters you lose head space because of the depth required to achieve buoyancy, due to the weight of the steel. But with any floating roof, you still have the issue of annular space to allow for floatation, thus the need for rim seals. And, while all seal manufacturers claim “virtually zero gap”, there is no such thing as a perfectly smooth, round tank, so there is no such thing as a zero gap seal. “This means that all seals leak,” says Gibbs. “They leak on day one and, once the roof cycles just one
time, the leaks begin to increase …and they increase quickly.”
Even the tiniest air gap below the roof allows vapours to collect just below the skin, and these can – and do – both erode the tank and escape.
Gibbs says that if the Xtreme Tank tool were to be deployed in these vapour spaces below the floating roof, riding just 4” above the product, it would capture and pull o� these vapours. This would completely prevent the need for various e�orts to prevent them from escaping. More significantly, it would reduce the corrosion of the underside of the floating roofs.
the hydrocarbon, inside the tank. “Fire trucks can show up and extinguish tank fires from a safe distance away. The firemen and women go home successful and safe.”So in short, the Xtreme Tank complete carbon capture process patented tank tool both saves the environment and saves lives. “This is the most versatile universal tool that can be placed in existing tanks or in new capital work on tanks. We have actual answers for carbon capture here at Xtreme Tank Technologies. We have the best type one tank fire tool on the world market.” www.xtremetanktechnologies.com
