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AssigneesIfp, Serge Albert Pierre Selles
InventorSerge Albert Pierre Selles
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This storage facility (I) comprises at least one light fuel tank (C1, C2, C3) and at least one heavy fuel tank (C4), each one of the tanks being equipped with a vent pipe (12, 22, 32, 42). All of the vent pipes open into the same collector (14) intended to communicate these pipes with one another and to be connected to a tank (10) of a delivery vehicle. Furthermore, whether respectively associated with a light fuel tank or a heavy fuel tank, the vent pipes are provided with means (13, 23, 33, 43) for condensing the vent gases flowing through these pipes, the condensates from these condensation means being discharged into the or at least one of the light fuel tanks. It is thus possible to minimize the discharge of light fuel vapors from the facility, whether into the atmosphere or into the tank of the delivery vehicle.
A fuel storage facility comprising at least one light fuel tank and at least one heavy fuel tank, each tank being equipped with a vent pipe, the vent pipe of the at least one light fuel tank being provided with a light fuel condensation means for vent gases circulating in the vent pipe of the at least one light fuel tank, condensates from the light fuel condensation means being discharged into the at least one light fuel tank, wherein the vent pipe of the at least one heavy fuel tank is provided with a heavy fuel condensation means for vent gases circulating in the vent pipe of the at least one heavy fuel tank, the heavy fuel condensation means being connected to a means for discharging condensates from the heavy fuel condensation means into the at least one light fuel tank, and in that all of the vent pipes of the at least one light fuel tank and the at least one heavy fuel tank open into a collector configured to allow the vent pipes to communicate with one another, and the collector configured to be connected to a tank of a delivery vehicle.
A method for filling and/or emptying the tanks of a fuel storage facility, said facility comprising at least one light fuel tank and at least one heavy fuel tank, the method comprising cooling vent gases from the at least one light fuel tank, discharging condensates resulting from the cooling of the vent gases from the at least one light fuel tank into the at least one light fuel tank, cooling gases circulating in a vent pipe connected between the at least one heavy fuel tank and a collector supplied by the vent gases from the at least one light fuel tank, and discharging condensates resulting from the cooling of the gases circulating in the vent pipe connected between the at least one heavy fuel tank and the collector into the at least one light fuel tank.
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