Circular 41: Regulations on delivery and receipt of Liquefied Petroleum Gas of cistern trucks, wagons of cistern trucks in Vietnam

Circular 41: Regulations on delivery and receipt of Liquefied Petroleum Gas of cistern trucks, wagons of cistern trucks in Vietnam (Internet image)

Article 39 of Circular 41/2011/TT-BCT regulates delivery and receipt of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) of cistern trucks, wagons of cistern trucks in Vietnam as follows:

1. Provisions on delivery and receipt of LPG of cistern trucks, wagons of cistern trucks in Vietnam

- It permits only transport means of LPG delivery and receipt and other means of transport, which are necessary for operation of station, to go enter area of LPG storage, exit and entry;

- The operators must keep watching regularly at area of means putting LPG in and out warehouse during the process of putting LPG in and out warehouse.   Right after finishing delivery and receipt, they must drive vehicles to leave out area of station;

- Sources causing fire must be supervised and applied safety measures when delivering and receiving LPG, specifying:

= To shut down engines in scope with minimum radius of 5 m surrounding point putting LPG in and out warehouse, except specialized engines to drive pumps, compressor for putting LPG in and out warehouse;

= To ban: Smoking, bare flame, welding, cutting metal, hand-held electric equipment, mobile phones, pagers and other sources causing fire in scope with radius of 15 m;

= When putting LPG from cistern trucks out for tanks at the works site, equipment of air circulation must be shut down, such as big fans which distance of suction head and point putting LPG out is in scope with radius of 15 m; shut down machines, equipments having bare flames, sparks, heat sources.

- When stopping trucks for LPG delivery and receipt, it is required to put warning panels “STOP”, “NO FIRE” at head and rear of cistern trucks. Wagons of cistern trucks must have preventive measures to prevent collision with other wagons, engines;

- When putting LPG out, it is required to check and confirm that the tanks receiving LPG and accessories of tanks are qualified on safety as prescribed. Persons putting LPG from cistern trucks or wagons of cistern trucks out must check definitely on capacity of containing, the volume of stored and received LPG of tank receiving LPG. 

2. Regulations on safety upon delivering and receiving LPG for cistern trucks

- When waiting for LPG delivery and receipt, the cistern trucks must stop at safe places with suitable protective fences, far from fire sources at least 7 m. head of cistern truck must direct toward the nearest rescue door. Cistern trucks are not allowed to stop or operate in house with 3 tightly-built sides;

- Before performing manipulation of LPG delivery and receipt, cistern trucks must be connected with ground and have performed inserting buffer for advance tyres definitely;

- When delivering and receiving LPG at stations, cistern trucks must stop at stipulated places of station. Position for stopping cistern trucks as putting LPG out and in must be convenient to connect pipes and manipulation relating to valves, head of trucks turn toward the exit. The exit of trucks has no obstacle during process of LPG delivery and receipt.

3. Provisions on safety upon delivering and receiving LPG for wagons of cistern truck in Vietnam

When delivering and receiving LPG for wagons of cistern truck, trains with wagons of cistern truck must be fixed by brake; wagons of cistern truck must be arranged in order to valve boxes of  tanks at a same side of trains.

More details can be found in Circular 41/2011/TT-BCT, which comes into force from February 1, 2012.

Thuy Tram

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