Solutions for Fuel Carriers
Temperature Compensation for Fuel Tank-Trucks
Requests of Oil Enterprises
Oil enterprises require that gauges of oil carriers trucks are equipped with the temperature compensation of flow measurement. This equipment considerably increases the precision of storage evidence and allows high savings of expenses. What actually is the temperature compensation, how does it function and who needs it?
Fuels and namely LPG change their volume considerably depending on the temperature. The product temperature at the moment of its filling into the tank of the carrier in the fuel depot is usually different from the one at the moment of discharging the product at the refilling station. The volume of the product inside the fuel tank changes depending on the temperature. Therefore there is not a clear evidence what amount of the product should stay in the tank after the discharge. Moreover, the customer does not know exactly how much of the product had been discharged into his tank and consequently cannot fully control the amount of his fuels.
Temperature Compensation
It is possible to fully control the amount of the product in every moment by the introduction of the temperature compensation to all parts of the measuring chain. Therefore by dispensing the product into the tank at the refilling station our task is not terminated. Another important moment is the filling from the product dispenser since here as well the product temperature varies, namely in the case of the surface tanks, depending on the temperature of the environment. It implies that a dispenser needs temperature compensation as well. Some operators of refilling stations therefore introduced the temperature compensation for the dispensing into the tanks.
Lorry Electronics
Many older but even some new tank-trucks are equipped with the mechanical flow meter. Those meters either do not care about the temperature compensation of the flow measurement at all or they provide only a mechanical compensation that is not sufficiently reliable and adjustable. Therefore it is not easy to adapt that mechanical meter to measure and compensate the temperature of the flow measurement for several different products.
The only possible solution is the Lorry Electronics with the adjustable temperature compensation. The product to be discharged is easily selected from the built-in list of products. All parameters including the density and the temperature expansion coefficient are immediately available. The Lorry Electronics Head produced by Quitec is a brand new product on the Czech market.
Quitec's Technology
Quitec s.r.o. developed and placed on the market the electronic head equipped with the temperature compensation and thereby fullfilled the demand of fuel carriers at the domestic market. No other domestic product for the affordable price had been available prior to Quitec's new technology.
The Lorry Electronics - Electronic Head Quitec - is based on a years long experience with the production of electronic calculators for fuel dispensers and at the same time it takes into account the specific requirements regarding the operation of the fuel tank-trucks. The head is fitted up straight into the discharging space to the proximity of the meter. The fitting takes one or two days and it is possible to exercise it for the fuel tank-trucks with one or more meters. The driver will also appreciate the easy handling of the electronics, well arranged data display and the fast printing of discharging tickets and of summary evidence sheets.
Reliable Partner
Quitec, spol. s r.o. is the Czech producer and supplier of the technology for refilling stations of fuels, LPG, oils and industrial fluids. Our products are established at many filling stations of the Czech Republic and abroad and they serve our customers more than six years. The number of fuel tank-trucks equipped with the lorry electronics provided by Quitec is continually increasing.