Truck Loading Station with Loading Arm and Vapor Recovery System
Saferack truck loading station using a loading arm with integrated vapor recovery systems
Vapor recovery for truck loading can be an essential tool in capturing displaced vapors during tank loading. Functioning designs can raise safety standards, reduce environmental impacts, and reduce product loss. SafeRack’s vapor recovery for truck loading terminals can improve your facility’s efficiency and safety, saving you time and money in the long term.
What is Vapor Recovery for Truck Loading?
When you top load fuels, solvents, and other volatile liquids, the product entering the tank pushes vapors out through the hatch or fittings. A vapor recovery system for truck loading uses dedicated piping or hoses to collect emissions and send them to a recovery unit or control device. In many facilities, recovered vapors are condensed or absorbed and routed back into storage, turning what used to be loss and pollution into usable product. Industries where loading arms with vapor return are used include gas & oil, natural gas & LPG, petroleum, and other hazardous bulk chemical operations.
The Benefits of Vapor Recovery for Top Loading Truck Terminals
SafeRack’s vapor recovery systems for top loading truck terminals can bring many safety, productivity, and cost benefits to your facility. A few key upsides to using our equipment include:
- Reduced emissions: SafeRack’s equipment captures volatile organic compound (VOCs) emissions and hazardous vapors to meet EPA and local air-quality limits and reduce environmental impact.
- Better safety: OSHA reports that chemical exposures cause 190,000 illnesses and 50,000 deaths each year. Vapor recovery systems lower vapor concentrations around the rack to cut fire, explosion, or inhalation risks to operators. Lower harm to workers translates to reduced downtime and lost production days.
- Product recovery: The EPA estimates that 147 million gallons of gasoline are lost through evaporation every year. Reclaiming vapors that would otherwise be vented can improve yield and profit.
- Regulatory compliance: Vapor recovery supports compliance with federal NESHAP rules, EPA standards, and other relevant regulations. Compliant equipment prevents fines and conflict with the local community.
SafeRack’s Vapor Recovery Systems for Truck Top Loading Stations
Top-loading truck terminals that handle hazardous materials require more than adequate vapor recovery systems. SafeRack can design a complete platform with safety cages, guardrails, and gangways that provide fall protection and a safe way for workers to access tanker truck hatches during operations. All our equipment meets or exceeds OSHA regulations and can protect your operators throughout the loading process.
Our truck loading platforms can be designed to match your operational requirements. We offer a variety of loading arm sizes and options for single or multi-compartment trucks to support whatever products your facility handles. SafeRack’s vapor recovery systems for truck top loading stations can pay back quickly through reduced emissions fees, injury costs, and recovered product.
Speak With a SafeRack Safety and Truck Loading Expert Today
SafeRack can be your safety partner for every step of the process. We can conduct on-site assessments to learn your facility’s layout and constraints, design equipment that matches your situation, install it with direct line of communication between all parties, and provide ongoing maintenance and safe training to uphold our high-quality systems. Contact us today to speak with one of our safety and truck loading experts. They can learn the issues you face, discuss options, and begin improving your day-to-day operations.