What is the purpose of the ribbons on tanker trucks?
1 Answers
To release the static electricity generated during the transportation of tanker trucks, ensuring the safety of people and vehicles. Here are specific details about tanker trucks: 1. Regulations for tanker trucks: Tanker trucks can only be used to transport diesel or gasoline; functionally, tanker trucks carrying diesel or gasoline can also transport methanol, but transportation authorities do not permit this. If methanol needs to be transported, a dedicated methanol tanker must be used. 2. Reasons why tanker trucks cannot transport methanol: The storage requirements for methanol and gasoline differ in terms of vehicle storage configurations. From a safety perspective, both substances are hazardous, but methanol and gasoline have certain differences in boiling points and flash points, leading to different safety regulations for their transportation.