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49 C.F.R. § 178.270-2   General.

Title 49 - Transportation

Title 49: Transportation
PART 178—SPECIFICATIONS FOR PACKAGINGS
Subpart H—Specifications for Portable Tanks

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§ 178.270-2   General.

(a) Each tank, including attachments and service and structural equipment, must be designed to withstand, without loss of contents, the maximum internal pressure that can be anticipated to result from the contents and the static and dynamic stresses incurred in normal handling and transportation.

(b) For the purpose of this subchapter MAWP is the maximum pressure that an IM portable tank may experience during any normal operation (including loading and unloading). The only exception to this limitation is hydrostatic testing.

(c) Each portable tank must have a cross-sectional design that is capable of being stress analyzed either mathematically or by the experimental method contained in UG–101 in Section VIII of the ASME Code (IBR, see §171.7 of this subchapter), or other method acceptable to the Associate Administrator.

(d) Each portable tank must be designed so that the center of gravity of the filled tank is approximately centered within the points of attachment for lifting devices.

(e) When credit is taken for insulation to reduce the required emergency venting capacity of safety relief devices, the insulation must be jacketed or otherwise protected from the accumulation of moisture or foreign matter that would decrease its efficiency or corrode the tank.

(f) Each portable tank that has a lining must have a lining material that meets the following requirements:

(1) The material used to line the tank must be—

(i) Substantially immune to attack by the hazardous material transported;

(ii) Homogeneous;

(iii) Nonporous;

(iv) Imperforated when applied;

(v) At least as elastic as the material of the tank shell; and

(vi) Have thermal-expansion characteristics compatible with the tank shell.

(2) The lining of the tank, tank fitting and piping must be—

(i) Attached by bonding or other satisfactory means;

(ii) Continuous; and

(iii) Extended around the face of any flange.

(3) Joints and seams in the lining must be made by fusing the material together or by other equally effective means.

[Amdt. 178–65, 46 FR 9895, Jan. 29, 1981, as amended by Amdt. 178–65, 46 FR 24184, Apr. 30, 1981; Amdt. 178–97, 56 FR 66284 and 66287, Dec. 20, 1991; 66 FR 45386, 45389, Aug. 28, 2001; 68 FR 75750, Dec. 31, 2003]

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