Where is everyone #5

Kinda reminds me of Josey Wales and Lone Wattie talking. That's how it is, whenever I get to liking someone, they aint around long. Lone says I noitce when you get to dislikin someone, they aint around long neither.

And good morning friends, we gonna truck this empty back to the yard. Go to the house about 10:00 and finally get the weekend started.

 

I see a dead mouse on your trailer deck.

Hope it's not too serious Shooter and you get back on the road soon.

 

@ShooterK2

Tell her "Honey, this year for christmas, no neckties, socks or sweaters. I need gift cards to Cummins, Fleet Pride or Truckpro."

 

Yeah, the tank itself can be used for a few different products, that 1075 is the hazard classification placard Liquified Petroleum Gas its in. It covers propane, butane pentane, ethane, methane and a few other petroleum products you have to keep under negative atmosphere and pressurized. @Zeviander , you might also sometimes see these trailers with a green 1005 placard too. That's anhydrous ammonia mostly used in fertilizer at farms or at steel mills used for cleaning raw products.

The reason you see them in the oil field is because when you get crude oil, you get a product of off spec gas called "y-grade". They transport the Y-grade gas which is a mixture of a nasty crude byproduct that contains propane, butane, penntane, natraul gasoline(NGL), little bit of crude residuals, small traces of all kinds of contaminants. The stuff smells like raw gasoline and is very nasty. The crude oil is taken to a gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel etc, Oil refinery, while the Y grade is taken to a Fracination plant (hydrocarbon refinery)

They unload it at a Fracination plant (refinery basically for pressurized gas products). That's where they remove the methane product out of the y-grade, then separate the rest of the hydrocarbons (propane, butane, pentane, ethane, NGL, any other contaminants....) and that gas comes out in it designated form clean as a virgins honey pie.

Then they either pipeline it, rail it, barge it or truck it from the fractionation plant. I take the propane straight from there directly to the retail distributors, they load it onto the little single axle bobtail tank trucks and it gets delivered to homes and businesses. Sometimes we haul Y grade into the refinery and then propane right back out. Double pay (we like those loads lol)

Sorry for the book, I was trying to break it down here and still give enough detail to give you a good idea what the process is in short.

 

Oh hell!

Let us know what you find @ShooterK2 .you say its hammering and making noise, is it missing too or just noisy?

 

Soon as I stepped outta my truck at this rest area south of I4....

Humidity

 

@Zeviander , I apologize. I forgot to answer your question all the way. You asked what the difference is in gasoline and LPG.

Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) gases like propane, butane etc...are gases in their natural state, but they must stay under pressure in a negative atmosphere to remain a liquid for transport and storage. As soon as propane hits our atmosphere, it boils off into a gas (thats how I bleed my hoses off to unhook) but as long it's in my 250psi tank under pressure it remains a liquid, but when burned is a vapor. Its alot more combustible than gasoline. It starts to boil at like -44 degrees Fahrenheit

Gasoline is a liquid form in its natural state obviously and its combustible properties are arranged much differently. No one is 100% sure at what temp it boils, but its somewhere between 100 and 300 degrees Fahrenheit in the atmosphere . It has a blend of several more chemicals and additives than propane. Basically less refined. All that stuff is just a byproduct of crude oil.

P.s.: I hope I didnt nerd everyone out today. I know its Saturday.

 

RV family comes over and asks me what I got under the tarps... two little kids with em so I decide to embelish a little bit...

“Military Jet Engine trailers...”

“Engine trailers, huh? I served for 20 years.”

“F135 trailers per the bills, sir. Thank you for your service!”

Kinda neat. Got a little bit of goof off time so decided to rework the tarp a bit... still looking like some sexy freight if I say so myself

 

FYI @stwik, theres a guy on here that says we ain't cool with our rear axle pushed forward on our stepdeck.

He made fun of me yesterday. I won't name names.

 

This stuff is fascinating to me. Sounds like you know your stuff.

I’ve said it several times but I’ll say it again: I love this thread!