Gas Station Underground Fuel Tanks

Underground storage tanks fall into four different types.

Gas station underground fuel tanks.

Brief overview of requirements for underground and aboveground tanks used to store fuel or other petroleum substances. Fuel dispensers underground storage tank monitoring systems and point of sale systems are closely integrated and reliant on each other for the station to function. An underground storage tank ust system is a tank or a combination of tanks and connected underground piping having at least 10 percent of their combined volume underground. Having the gas tanks underground presents an obvious problem.

Typical ust facilities are gas stations convenience stores and other non retail facilities. If the gas must get to a dispenser and your car s gas tank located above ground it has to defy gravity in order to get there like a waterfall flowing uphill. Links to web pages with more information on specific requirements. Registering and self certifying underground storage tanks how to comply with state requirements to self certify underground storage tanks that hold motor fuels.

Check out aerial drone footage of our underground fuel tanks being installed at a buc ees s site in the united states. Any storage system used to contain flammable fuel can be referred to as a fuel tank but this term usually means the part of an engine system of any kind that stores fuel and either propels it through a fuel pump or releases it through a pressurized gas system. Steel aluminum tanks made by manufacturers in most states and conforming to standards set by the steel tank institute. The tank system includes the tank underground connected piping underground ancillary equipment and any containment system.

There are at least two of these tanks per station and each tank usually holds a different grade of gas. Composite overwrapped a metal tank aluminum steel with filament windings like glass fiber aramid or carbon fiber or a plastic compound around the metal cylinder for corrosion protection and to form an interstitial. Fuel station technology is evolving rapidly.