Laboratory Simulation Studies on Evaporative Fuel Loss from Storage Tanks

The fossil fuel is used for various activities; however, it is available in limited quantity and burning of fossil fuel causes global warming. The fuel loss from fuel tanks causes volatile organic emission. When two-wheeler is parked in hot sun during summer, there is evaporation loss of fuel from t...

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Main Authors: N Kapilan, Premnath Kirthi, D Varshitha, Nayak Sneha, S Sunil
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Published: EDP Sciences 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://www.bio-conferences.org/articles/bioconf/pdf/2025/23/bioconf_nittebio2025_01004.pdf
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description The fossil fuel is used for various activities; however, it is available in limited quantity and burning of fossil fuel causes global warming. The fuel loss from fuel tanks causes volatile organic emission. When two-wheeler is parked in hot sun during summer, there is evaporation loss of fuel from the fuel tanks. In this work, experimental work was carried out in laboratory, to understand fuel losses at various temperature such as 35, 40 and 45 degree C. From this work, it was observed that the air temperature significantly affects the fuel loss. The fuel loss increases with increase in air temperature and higher evaporation losses were observed at 45-degree C. To simulate the fuel storage tank with different level of fuel in the tank, experiments were conducted with beakers of different capacity such as 80, 100 and 200 mL which has the surface area of 101, 149 and 226 cm2. From the experiments, it was observed that the fuel evaporation loss increases with increase in surface area of the beaker. The surface is of 226 cm2 causes highest fuel evaporation loss as compared to other surface areas. From this work, we suggest that evaporative losses be minimized through appropriate mitigation measures.
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spelling doaj-art-975fcedf878f49fb9ba7864b7827f0a32025-08-20T02:16:29ZengEDP SciencesBIO Web of Conferences2117-44582025-01-011720100410.1051/bioconf/202517201004bioconf_nittebio2025_01004Laboratory Simulation Studies on Evaporative Fuel Loss from Storage TanksN Kapilan0Premnath Kirthi1D Varshitha2Nayak Sneha3S Sunil4Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Biotechnology Engineering, NMAM Institute of Technology, NITTE (Deemed to be University)Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Venkateshwara College of EngineeringThe fossil fuel is used for various activities; however, it is available in limited quantity and burning of fossil fuel causes global warming. The fuel loss from fuel tanks causes volatile organic emission. When two-wheeler is parked in hot sun during summer, there is evaporation loss of fuel from the fuel tanks. In this work, experimental work was carried out in laboratory, to understand fuel losses at various temperature such as 35, 40 and 45 degree C. From this work, it was observed that the air temperature significantly affects the fuel loss. The fuel loss increases with increase in air temperature and higher evaporation losses were observed at 45-degree C. To simulate the fuel storage tank with different level of fuel in the tank, experiments were conducted with beakers of different capacity such as 80, 100 and 200 mL which has the surface area of 101, 149 and 226 cm2. From the experiments, it was observed that the fuel evaporation loss increases with increase in surface area of the beaker. The surface is of 226 cm2 causes highest fuel evaporation loss as compared to other surface areas. From this work, we suggest that evaporative losses be minimized through appropriate mitigation measures.https://www.bio-conferences.org/articles/bioconf/pdf/2025/23/bioconf_nittebio2025_01004.pdf
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