Week 11 (3/14-3/18) Fuel Storage Water Defense Testing

We have an offsite fuel storage facility for our company that we refer to as the "fuel farm". The farm requires various testing on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual basis. This particular week we performed quarterly checks at the farm. Part of this test is to ensure that the water defense is functioning properly. On an annual check we would plumb in a hand pump and pump water into the filter vessel (which has a VERY expensive fuel/water filter on the outgoing port preventing the water from escaping into the rest of the system) until the water level in the sump of the filter housing reaches the water sensor and shuts down the entire farm resulting in a doomsday alarm sounding until we reset the system and drain out the contaminated fuel in the filter housing. Luckily, this being a quarterly check, we only had to test the sensor using the test port on the side of the sump which houses the water sensor. This sensor can be isolated from the rest of the pump system while it is running. We then add a small amount off water to the sensor housing until the alarm sounds and we confirm it is in working condition. Once you learn all of the pump components it becomes very easy to operate this system. 

 Hours: 40
Running Total: 420