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Abstract
Every process industry’ utilizes at least onJe or more
petreleum fuels. Power stat~ons are operated with diesel fue] (solar)’. While,. gaseline and kerosene ar~ ’used as metor’ fuels in’ vehicles employed for tran’spo:rtim’g labourers
arnd geods.
Though petrou:eum fuels are lemoWIT” tto: attack metallic _
tan’ks, few attempts have been’ made to’ utilize fibre’ rein¬ferced plast’ics (FRP) in’ constructing fuel tanks; inspite of the enO’rmeu1s applicatioms of” FRP in: variou1s in’dl’stries. This
might be attributed to’ the flammable nature af plastics.
The aim ”of this research is to utilize FRP for the con-
structiorn ef’ petroleum: vessels. TO’ reach this goal a comprehemsive theeratical study C?f the different Plastics, fibres and methods ef processing was ne de. A practical invest:igationl ef the effect ef variou’s parameters on- the
tensile strength (lJminate t’hickn-ess, glass fibre type, and
adhesionrbetweenl epoxy--polyester an,d epoxy-aluminium feils) and flammabili ty Cresi~, type, laminate thickness, qua~tz powder and al\1min:ium foil) of: the laminet:es was carried ourt.
The author has SUcceeded in retarding flamma bili ty bY’
app’l’ying either q’uartz-pewder er aluminium fo’il 0111 the
surfa’cet of the la’mina’te s, and- has developed a n -elll techn1ique
for evaluating the surface fla,rnmability.
tatistical methods an1d numerica’I an’alysis have utilized throughout the whole ~.,ork ta, evaluate the results.
F1-onI’ the experimental Nork and literature surveY’” the aut-nor recommend~ employing gla’ss fIbre reiDJfo~rce polyestter:... epoxY’ laminates fO’r petroleum fuelsr ra’ther tham the’
tradi tional meta’Ilic tanks, for the follo~”,ing reason’s:
1. FR polyester epoxies are not arfected (tensile sttFength~ ~lexura] strength, impact: resistrance” abra-siom resistance’, flamrna.:bilitty’, a’b-sorption, specific gravity and resim content) byr the petrroleum fuel-€! •.
2. FRP tanks have low thermal conductivities. II’D. case’ o~•
fires set inl the n’eighbourhood,. this property” offers good security against. explosion. As the temperature or
the petroleum contents of’ FRP tanks change slightlY’ .r wi th heat; in contrast to’ the met’allic tanks, which
\. have high thermal conductivities.