Fueling from Plastic Containers and Blowing yourself up?

UltraJohn wrote:
Jeff wrote:


It is very well documented that there ilitigation with metal gas cans
being
filled while in the back of pickup beds with plastic bed liners. Here is
a link to an article that also documents the problem occurring with
plastic
portable fuel containers. http://www.pei.org/FRD/gascan.htm

Chevron has a very detailed news release located at
http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/extension/...re-gascan.html

Here are a few other links

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hid2.html

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/AE/AE17400.pdf

Do a search on google.com and you will get hundreds of sites.

Jeff




Yes, they'd also like to make you think that cell phones will cause and
explosion while filling your tank. I'm thinking since a cell phone is a
duplex transceiver there is no antenna switching, no relays to arc so what
would cause an explosion? A watt or so of rf, not in my life!
These things come from our societies fascination with litigation! No one
wants to take responsibilities for their own screw ups! Most of the fueling
accidents I'd be willing to bet are from people arcing from themselves to
the car in dry cold conditions.
So use common sense, ground yourself to the fueling vessel and fueled vessel
then open the containers and do it!
John
off the soap box now!

There was a Myth Busters show about this. It turns out the cell phone
users kept making and breaking physical contact with the vehicle. Same
with people who sat in the car after starting fueling. I think the moral
was to either limit the number of contacts in the fueling area or stay
attached to the vehicle or nozzle.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

A former flight student of ours had a fuel fire while refuelling
an airplane with plastic cans in Alaska. Cold air equals dry air, which
is worse for static buildup, and cold air reduces the evaporation rate
of the fuel, making a more combustible mixture around the filler neck
and inside the can as air replaces the fuel. It's not quite the same as
fuelling your lawn mower on a warm summer afternoon with a quart or two
of fuel. Longer pours can cause a higher static buildup.
Those red plastic jerry cans are apparently made of a
static-resistant material. I sure wouldn't want to carry fuel in other
non-fuel types of plastic containers.


Dan (from Alberta, where winter is sometimes seven months
long)