Product Storage and Transportation Operator - (Intermediate)

Author: Chen Huiyan, Liang Chenglong
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book is the intermediate version of "Occupational Skill Qualification Training Course - Oil Storage and Transportation Operator," primarily introducing the physical properties of petroleum and its main products, the main production units of oil products, oil storage equipment, and their use and maintenance. It also covers thermal stress in oil pipelines and its compensation, the use, inspection, and maintenance of oil pipelines, as well as leak detection and handling. The book discusses the internal structure of centrifugal pumps, cavitation phenomena, suction characteristics, pump efficiency, characteristic curves, and common analysis and troubleshooting. Additionally, it provides knowledge on the use and maintenance of common valves, fault analysis and troubleshooting, oil loading and unloading equipment and operations, error theories related to oil measurement, volume tables and their use, calculations for bulk oil quantities, and the use and maintenance of flowmeters. Furthermore, it introduces the toxicity of fuel and its vapors, measures to prevent fuel poisoning, the generation and accumulation of static electricity in oil depots, the control and protection of static hazards, and other safety-related knowledge. This book is suitable for self-study and training of oil storage and transportation production operators, as well as for reference by oil storage and transportation production technical management personnel.