Important Tips While Pumping Petrol

[Bumblebee600]

Important Tips While Pumping Petrol

 

1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load is temperature -compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for businesses, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at their pumps.

 

2. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car's tank.

 

3. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or half-empty), because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and ! gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing evaporation.)

 

4. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank, so you're getting less gas for your money.

 

Hope this will help ease your 'pain at the pump'!

 

Bumble600!

[wizzy_bradz]

so much new things to learn thx bro

appreciate it

[SinFilled]

so if we pump at the slow speed... wah... that's surely to take up alot of time haha but if it can give me value for money, i'll try it ^_^ anyways realli great tips bro... i shall try that later, at nite pump oso can rite? coZ itZ cool at nite oso hehe

[Guest stages]

cool ... thank u....

[Refugee]

wah rao.... old news rah...

[eement]

ya la that one long time ago have liao

[limbat]

Important Tips While Pumping Petrol

 

1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load is temperature -compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for businesses, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at their pumps.

 

2. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car's tank.

 

3. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or half-empty), because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and ! gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing evaporation.)

 

4. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank, so you're getting less gas for your money.

 

Hope this will help ease your 'pain at the pump'!

 

Bumble600!

 

 

Thanks mate

[kguanz]

hmm.. is at night 10pm like that the ground counted as cold? or must early in the morning b4 7?

[xaOFirE]

nice~ UP for u bro~~

[newcomer]

old news for some of you guys but all these are new to me!

[DM]

all that stuff debunked here --> http://www.singaporebikes.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4323848&postcount=70

 

already discussed, those so-called tips are not true.

 

original thread: http://www.singaporebikes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193624

 

that blogger oughta post stuff based on facts and not on pseudo science because there are naive people out there who will believe everything they read without finding out more about it, nuff said.

[Guest stages]

Nice tips .....

[oreo_rr]

all that stuff debunked here --> http://www.singaporebikes.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4323848&postcount=70

 

already discussed, those so-called tips are not true.

 

original thread: http://www.singaporebikes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193624

 

that blogger oughta post stuff based on facts and not on pseudo science because there are naive people out there who will believe everything they read without finding out more about it, nuff said.

 

which ones are not true?

care to share

[shiraz]

For sure the one on temp is not ture! How expansion/contraction much can a few degrees make? There would be no significant savings I guess.

[SinFilled]

The one on pumping slowly is true according to the Newpaper which I read last week on the bike section. lolZ

[matkental]

thanks for the tips man...

[jan75]

Sorry to all bros here, i may sound like talking c**k but i saw it before during my 4 year working in a petrol station here in sillypore....is tat never just put the nozzle into the petrol tank n leave it running auto thinking that the nozzle will stop once petrol is full...yes it is suppse to stop but dun take chances cos i saw 1 incident where the petrol actually overflowed all over the bike n floor.

[jan75]

by the way...the rider actually left it on auto n went to the toilet...

[fattsum]

For sure the one on temp is not ture! How expansion/contraction much can a few degrees make? There would be no significant savings I guess.

 

actually that is one of the truth 1.... dun believe.... when in cold day ie rainy day, u pump petrol into let say a 1.5 cocacola bottle... leave some room for it to grow... leave it there till hot day... if can, put into ur box even better... then during hot afternoon uopen up thebox and see if the bottle full and hardern? u tell me i always keep a bottle in my box last time

[kguanz]

actually that is one of the truth 1.... dun believe.... when in cold day ie rainy day, u pump petrol into let say a 1.5 cocacola bottle... leave some room for it to grow... leave it there till hot day... if can, put into ur box even better... then during hot afternoon uopen up thebox and see if the bottle full and hardern? u tell me i always keep a bottle in my box last time

 

haha.. what does that mean?

 

btw guys.. petrol is stored underground of the petrol station right? but during rainy day.. will the water seep into the petrol storage place?

[quadro]

good knowledge shared, thanks

[epk]

great tips bro, thanks!

[FunkyChicken]

Important Tips While Pumping Petrol

 

1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load is temperature -compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for businesses, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at their pumps.

 

2. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car's tank.

 

3. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or half-empty), because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and ! gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing evaporation.)

 

4. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank, so you're getting less gas for your money.

 

Hope this will help ease your 'pain at the pump'!

 

Bumble600!

 

so much new things to learn thx bro

appreciate it

 

wow! impressive stuff. thanks for sharing bro!

[schwein.bissen]

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