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anker trucks delivering fuel need to quickly provide high-quality, accurate volumes of uncontaminated product. Automated metering and gauging equipment ensures an improved service for the
customer and delivery company alike, but the electronic and pneumatic devices that control the flow demand protection. This equipment has complex installation needs, so a customised enclosure with high ingress and impact resistance is essential. For homes, farms and businesses that rely on heating oil fuel, the regular tanker delivery is a lifeline. This means that fuel delivery companies need to sustain a reliable service, providing an accurate volume of the right type of fuel – on time. To ensure productivity and efficiency, the fuel supplier also has to minimise the overall time required for delivery. Crucially, to supply the home or business
FAST FUEL DELIVERY ACHIEVED WITH RUGGED PROTECTION OF METERING EQUIPMENT
owner with a quality oil, preventing fuel cross- contamination is also vital. To achieve these demands, tanker delivery companies rely on metering and gauging fuel delivery systems, like those provided by MechTronic. The Leeds-based firm enjoys a strong market position thanks to its contamination-proof technology. A tanker truck’s barrel can contain up to five different compartments, each potentially holding a different type of fuel. To prevent cross- contamination, MechTronic’s self-draining manifold automatically empties before introducing a new product when a line change is required. MechTronic’s system also features an automated barrel follow-on, as well as a line change, that saves up to half the time of a
regular delivery by removing the need for manual intervention by the tanker driver.
CUSTOMISED HOUSINGS MechTronic’s truck-mounted fuel delivery systems comprise a variety of electronic components. This includes timer relays for hose rewind, through to a pneumatic control unit, an intelligent device that manages all the system’s valves. As a result, this complex assembly must be integrated within a protective unit, the latest measuring 370mm wide, that can securely and efficiently house the various components and cabling. This type of enclosure design can require up to 26 exit/entry points for pneumatic bulkheads, plus a cable gland point for the power cable.
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