Dual setting under pressure relief system

Details Dual setting under pressure relief system Dual setting under pressure relief system

1995-03-29

1996-09-03

Avila, Stephen

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Freighters

137 6811, B63B 2508

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055513670

ABSTRACT:
A system for providing differential pressure relief in vessels having a cargo tank, incorporating an inert gas biased pressure/vacuum relief valve is disclosed. A source of inert gas, under controlled pressure and flow rate is connected to a vacuum outlet of a pressure/vacuum valve to bias the valve so that a desired pressure differential across the tank can be maintained during normal operations and easily changed and so that the valve will open at two different desired pressure differentials. A rupture disk connected to the vacuum pump adaptor is set to rupture at a desired pressure differential across the disk to allow atmospheric pressure to reach the vacuum outlet in the event of a rupture. A vacuum pump replaces the rupture disk to maintain a desired pressure differential across the pressure/vacuum valve, so as to reduce the amount of cargo that would leak from the damaged tank.

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patent: 4067352 (1978-01-01), Halpine
patent: 4508131 (1985-04-01), DeFrees
patent: 5285745 (1994-02-01), Husain

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