Petroleum act
Petroleum act
Petroleum
means any
liquid hydrocarbon or
mixture of hydrocarbons, and any inflammable mixture
(liquid, viscous or solid) containing any liquid hydrocarbon.
Classification
of petroleum:
Ø Petroleum Class ‘A’ – Means petroleum having a
flash point below 23
degree
E.g. Petrol, Hexane, Toluene, Naphtha
Ø Petroleum Class ‘B’ – Means petroleum
having a flash point of 23 degree
and
above but below 65
degree.
E.g. HSD, SKO, MTO etc.
Ø Petroleum Class ‘C’ – Means petroleum
having a flash point of 65 degree
and
above but below
93 degree.
Flash Point:
Flash point of
any petroleum means the
lowest temperature at which it yields a vapour which will give
a momentary flash when ignited.
Transport and storage of petroleum:
Ø No licence needed for transport or storage of petroleum class ‘B’ in quantity
not exceeding
1000 litres and petroleum class ‘C’ in quantity not exceeding
45,000 litres.
Ø No licence needed for
import, transport or storage of petroleum class ‘A’ not intended
for sale
if the total quantity in
possession does not exceed 30 litres.
Ø No licence etc. is needed for
any
petroleum which has its flash point not below
93 degree.
E.g.
Lubricants,
etc.
Form of licence/approval purpose
and licensing/approving authority:
Ø For storage of petroleum class A in barrels up to 300 litres one should get licence
from
district authority in the prescribed form – X
Ø
For storage of petroleum
class A in barrels exceeding 300 litres one
should get licence from circle / sub-circle office
in
the prescribed form – XIV
Ø For storage of petroleum class B in barrels up to 25000 litres one should get licence from district authority in the prescribed form – X
Ø For storage of petroleum class B in barrels Exceeding 25000 litres one should get licence from circle
/ sub-circle
office in the prescribed form – XIV
Ø For storage of petroleum class c in barrels Exceeding 45000 litres one should get licence from circle
/ sub-circle
office in the prescribed form – XIV
Ø For storage of petroleum in tanks installations one should get licence
from chief controller of explosives (CCE) in the
prescribed form – XIII
Fabrication considerations of
petroleum tankers:
Ø
There are fabricators of tank lorry who are approved
by the CCE,
Nagpur and the tank lorry must be fabricated by any of these
approved fabricators.
Ø There are competent
persons recognised by
CCE, Nagpur and the
tank lorry must be tested
by any of these competent persons and the certificate
of tank test and the
safety fitting must be issued by any of these competent persons.
Ø The tank lorry licence as granted for 3 years at a time, expiring on 31st December of the
third calendar year.
Ø The net carrying
capacity of a tank truck or a semi-trailer shall not exceed 25 Kl of petroleum and the net carrying capacity of any compartment shall not exceed 5Kl of petroleum.
The number of compartments should not exceed five.
Petroleum carrying tanker should consist;
Ø Provision of electrical earthing by means of flexible cable between tanker chassis and earth boss/fill
pipe.
Ø Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
of the material being carried.
Ø The tank should be clearly marked with material being carried in quantity and it should be marked with skull & bone symbol.
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