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Chicago* Illinois: October 3* lp4Q ...r* 4 .si* ioudreau Chicago Office 5o*LT isrtsii bear Jlat The following la a resume* of my activities during the week ending October 3, 1940* The early part of the morning was apnt at the office discussing the proposed tank cleaning tools* Later in the morning 1 reported to Dr* Banders at the Dteveas Hotel for my annual physical examination* iSaving been requested to call by the Johnson Cil Dupply of Gary, I drove to their refinery for the purpose of rooking an inspection of their blending plant non wider con struction* Johnson has mde no attempt in the past to rush construction work! however, the market ia now bad for unleaded ,-aaoline in their marketing area and they now have requested immediate shipment of fluid which was ordered soma time ago* flushing and wash room fixture installation reaainsto bo done. I have informed -Johnson that the entire plant must be completed before the fluid can be released* I personally feel that they would complete necessary work: should tho fluid i released before all details of construction are completed but further fool that wo should withhold release until all work baa been done* Standard Oil began cleaning operations on their tank ho. li| buffalo Side, Whiting refinery* This ia a small GO* x 50*, '-,654 bbl*, vertical tank, with a floating roof and is used as a leaded aviation gasoline shipping tank* TUS3DAY Called at the Standard Oil Company{Indiana) shiting refinery to inspect tank ho* 11 and observe cleaning operations on tank Ho* 31 which were initiated this aorning* Tank Kt>* 51 is to be cleaned and di&santled as discussed in ay weekly letter last week* Ahen I looked in the manhole of tank iio* 11, a at rang odor of fluid was present* -i'hie tank had bfen thor oughly cleaned* I entored the tank and carefully inspected it* The tank was absolutely free of all aludgej even the surfaces at the wall and floor seams wese cleaned down to dry sea la. dome loose, dry t'A0J> scale was present on the roof at the manhole opening but this had the appearance of dry iron rust* This tank has three manholes; two in the walla and s in the roof* Hence, ventilation ia excellent. This being a susall cleaning job, excellent work had been done and the only method by which the ta nk could have haen ..nde more clean would Have been to build scaffolding and scrape the entire surface. Let, a strong odor of fluid persistedl . r. binder aad Dr. 0022885 2 ' present s?aa on the roof .-anhole wall; a surface normally out of contact with gasoline in tho tank# I cannot explain the presence of tho odor* However, due to tho facta outlined, it waa decided that should further work to necessary in the tank or on the,, roof, full protective equipment would bo used* An odor was aloo present on tho roof which had bean lowered, further work was not necessary and the tank was returned to service. The gasolines in this tank is normally leaded to p#3 $ 'ce's TEl/g&llon# (Pinlohed leaded aviation gaooline)# Called at the Johnson Oil Supply in Cary, and testod the rsanlfold spates# is several leaks wore found, it will be necessary to again teat after further work has boon done# ^SDKSSOAY Jpent the morning at the Standard Oil Company ..biting refinery observing cleaning operations on tank ho. 51# fh afternoon was 3pent at the v.oteth defining Company in blue Island, Illinois discussing irregularities and observing blending proceiuo* a. quarterly inspection of their equipment was also made, .sorth ha3 continued to ?,nko TPHYL blends -- substandard red gasoline although they have repeatedly agreed to not do so# It is ay opinion that the forth Chicago office is deliberately attempting to bluff us# fhey apparently propose to openly make their red blends until v#e stop thorn* orth'a cracking unit is now on stream and they may be able to roach 60 ontane number CFd-f.* i'heir last refinery sample, CHI 9 H3H, analysed ~jk*2 GTd-Mj gua contant satisfactory* Camplea will bo sent to Detroit of the new blending stock (cracking unit distillate) to determine if satisfactory HIHYL baa ean be produced. Tho camples and this situation are discussed in ray letters dated October 2, 19^*0$ C.L. Davidson, copy J.k* doudroau and J.2# Doudreau copy C.L, Davidson. During supervision of tank cleaning jobs, many interesting items are sometimes discussed with foremen and tank cleaning personnel* Jews of these arc outlined here merely aa points of interest* They might well bo called ---- DLSAHIfCS not Trig CLSANIMOS 1# The cleaning of large crude storage tanks which have accum ulated several feet of waxy tank-bottom sludge presents quite & problem* The present constitutes a hazard for those men entering the tanks# Cne refiner in this area has 3olvod the problem by building several steam eductors. These are inserted into the tank through the manholes and supplied with high pressure steam. The sludge is drawn through th oductora and heated above ita melting point. In three or four days the sludge is melted and then readily pumped to slop tanks whore it la charged to the coking stills# Ho entrance into tho tank io neceeeary# K*r 0022886 2. During the recent low level of activity in tho heavy industries in this area, one refiner build up such high in ventories of heavy fuel oils and road oil that it was necessary to store it in several large gasoline base stock tanks# Aftar tho inventory had been reduced and it was desired to replace the tanks in white gasoline service, a cleaning problem presented itself* Conventional cleaning would, have consisted of building scaffolding in tho tanka so that the entire surface could bo washed and wiped to a clean surface. This would bavo coat approximately .'10,000 par tank:* A novel ayottsa was devised consisting of eighteen large lawn spray typo a prayers j no placed that the entire mil and roof surface was contacted 'ey the liquid boing sprayed. One foot of white tractor fuel was placed in tho tanka and the spray system operated for a Cow hours. The tanks were thoroughly cleaned by one wash and gasoline placed in tho tanka did not lose a single point in color ---- and th job coat less than 41,000 per tank. Cno largo refinery in the Chicago area covers considerable territory and duo to spills, line leaks, etc. much oil ia lost into the ground. This not only causes serious sewer contamination (sewer oil bain;* recovered in separators) but also other diff iculties. For example, a large pipe still furnace upon being shut down continued to burn -- this oounda liko a tall story, but I happen to know that it is not -- due to oil seepage into tho fire box up through the ground* A drainage system has been placed in operation at various points in the refinery so that tho oil flows to recovery boxes from which it ia pumpod to the preeeuro otill charging stock tanka, during sooo nontho Bos of those boxes have recovered as touch as 7#000 barrels of oil. ihey are veritable producing oil wells}. ff.UddoAY failed at hhltlng standard Oil to observe clean ing operations on tank bo. 31. "his tank is a 90* x JO', P'4,000 bhl. fixed roof vessel in Sianolind (leaded Q.) gasolinesorvice. Cleaning operations wer completed today and diasiantling operations will bo started next week. Called at Hast Chicago bheil in order to aaintain tank cleaning notification in order. As bhell is shutting down, many personnel changes have taken place and some of the former authority sen have loft hast Chicago. \ meeting was held in kr* V.u, Parker's (Plant Manager} office with hr. ,-arkor, hr* H.P. Ingereoli, and hr. forigan present. These three men can authorise tank cleaning at East Chicago which ia now functioning as a terminal only. Cur tank cleaning program was discussed and it was agreed that any of these three authorizing a tank cleaning Job would notify us through the Chicago office.(r:r:!YL Chicago office). This system will b used until permanent personnel placement makes possible designation of definite authority reen* Shell had a rather serious fire during the night of October 2at. A clipping from the Haesaond (Indiana) Timea, October 2, 19^0 ia attached* Or. Parker informed me that the fire took place in a storage area and that the gas in the area was found to be from a leaking butane line. The fir was ignited from oithar a flashlight or the running motor of the gager's truck which was parked close by. .xact cause is not known* Earlier in the morning bholl had a forced shut down due to the burning of a power lin pole leading into the plant* The heavy fog encountered in this area during the past few mornings had no netted tho insulator s and crosa-arse that with the dust, and tsspooially acid fog from the concentrators and contact plants near by, they became virtual conductors and arced across the surfaces until a firs was darted at tho top of tho polo* Juring the night of October 1st, fourteen power line poles of tho Northern Indiana Public Service Company in tho Calumet Industrial Area wore sot ablazo by this condition* K~ 002288 ballad at tho Johnson CiX Supply in Cary to complete tsatin.' of tha piping in their plant now under construction, She piping has been cceapleted and tested satisfactorily, locker room plumbing and painting remains to be done. fllDAY Drove to the blob* Oil defining Company refinery at Lsssont, Illinois, lade a quarterly inspection of the plant with hr. F.'C. Dsith who ia in charge of blending operations. "lobe aoderniaod their plant approximately one year ago and certain details of tha work nave not been completed to date. I have asked for completion several tinea and recently wrote to ;ir. It.3. Overton requesting that he expedite thio work. As this has not been done, I called on ;,;r. Overton and again requested completion. Ho has promised that the work will bo taken up in tho very near future. hile at blobs, I also called on Dr. Krause, Dhief Chemist, regarding certain overleaded samples and sub--octane samples. -e should not encounter overloaded samples fret- this point in the future as aaxitsaa lead in their Dthyl blends has been droppod to 2.3 - 2.5 cc*o TFL/Gallon* Dr. frauoe has only one CFH engine in hia laboratory and it is often changed from Hotor to 1959 Research test conditions. He ia ordering another engine and will be able to keep it on CF3-U service. This probably accounts for the fact that hia results deviate considerably from our Detroit Laboratory results, for example, Hr* Krause blends for SO.3 CPH--M ethyl at tho refinery. Cur lab finds samples consistently below 80. I requested that Dr* Krause write directly to our hr. C.L. Davidson in Detroit and attempt to work out satisfactory analytical methods. .Do doubt much of the difficulty encountered with sub-standard camples from thia refinery has been caused by the fact that Or. Krause's analytical procedures have boon in error in Globe's favor; io, gum determinations low and octane ruxauora high. Called at the Great Lakes Pipe Lino Company !>.riial in Franklin Dark, Illinois and made a quarterly inspection on their blending planar. Spent the afternoon at the Office completing reports, taking care of necessary correspondence, and working on the proposed bulk plant tank cleaning tools* 'fours very truly. udiburg K 0022888