Improvement of equipment for top loading of petroleum products

Abstract

Transportation of oil and petroleum products is a priority for the development of the country's economy, therefore, the development of fuel-filling equipment that allows to increase the safety of the operator who controls this equipment, as well as the driver of the tank car who works on the tank – opens (closes) filling hatches, and also manually orients the fuel-filling pipe and lowering (lifting) its in the hatch opening of a tanker truck, is an important task. The article offers a description of a new design of fuel-filling equipment for tankers, which allows automating the process of projecting a filling pipe relative to the hatch of a tanker truck when top-loading petroleum products into tankers and increasing measures to protect the driver and operator. This is achieved by introducing additional hydraulic cylinders into the prototype design, which allow moving the filling pipe in the transverse plane of the hatch, as well as lowering (lifting) the filling pipe into the hatch opening for filling petroleum products. Automation of the process is carried out through the use of a video camera, the image from which is transmitted to the operator's control panel. The image comes from a video camera in real time, and in addition to the transverse movement of the pipe, the depth of movement is controlled by the operator on the monitor.