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This workbook provides a template for reporting landing loss sample calculation data to the
landing loss emissions. Please use the template in conjunction with the detailed guid
1. For each landing loss episode, use one template worksheet to report the associated sample calculation
you prefer, but please format workbooks logically according to tank number, time period, etc.
2. Dark blue cells on the template contain instructions for entering episode data.
3. Enter the requested data into the light blue cells.
4. Data entry cells may contain formatting checks to ensure valid data is reported. If data with invalid form
to correct the format.
5. The last worksheet in this workbook provides references for chemical and physical property data for org
6. Questions? Contact Danielle Nesvacil at (512) 239-2102 or by e-mail at DNesvaci@tceq.state.tx.us.
Landing losses occur from floating-roof tanks whenever the tank is drained to a level where its roof lands on its dec
When a floating roof lands on its supports or legs, it creates a vapor space underneath the roof. Liquid remaining i
to replace those expelled by breathing (in the case of internal floating roof tanks) or wind action (in the case of exte
as standing idle losses, occur daily as long as the tank roof remains landed.
Additional emissions occur when incoming stock liquid fills a tank with a landed roof; the incoming liquid not only dis
generates its own set of vapors that are displaced during the filling process. These two types of emissions are colle
For a given roof landing event, total landing loss emissions are therefore the sum of the filling losses and the daily s
landed. Landing losses are inherently episodic in nature, and must be determined each time a tank's floating roof
Currently, no storage tank emissions software, including EPA's TANKS program, determines landing loss emissions
emissions may be determined using the guidance outlined in American Petroleum Institute (API) Technical Report (
Landings (hereafter referred to as API TR 2567).
Tank design considerations will impact both standing idle and filling loss emissions. Therefore, API TR 2567 separa
emissions determination purposes:
external floating-roof tanks (EFRTs) with a full or partial liquid heel, and
API TR 2567 presents standing idle and filling loss equations for each different tank category listed above. To accu
tank in question into one of the above categories. Care must be taken when classifying a tank as drain-dry; API sta
liquid has been removed. The following tank configurations qualify as tanks with a partial liquid heel, according to
tanks whose sumps have baffles or similar fittings that retain liquid, or
flat-bottom tanks whose contents have been removed by a vacuum truck, since liquid typically
For each tank category listed above, API presents different saturation factors that have been validated through field
factors represent the stratification of vapors in the vapor space underneath the floating roof; therefore, no modifica
upon tank shell height is necessary.
After you have correctly determined your tank type, you must collect the following information about the tank and its
tank diameter
tank color
average temperature of the vapor and liquid below the floating roof
physical and chemical properties of the stored liquid (such as density, molecular weight, and va
physical and chemical properties of the liquid that the tank is refilled with, if different from the p
number of days that the tank stands idle while its floating roof is landed
For a given tank, you can then use this information in conjunction with the appropriate standing idle and filling loss e
episode. The annual landing loss emissions can then be determined by summing the emissions from each episode
each roof landing episode must be individually determined using accurate temperature data and stored liquid prope
Avoid using certain default parameters presented within API TR 2567 that may not accurately reflect a given storag
vapor temperature range specified within the document is 20 degrees Rankine; however, this default value is only a
painted other colors, the daily vapor temperature range must be calculated from the appropriate equation presented
temperature range to increase.
Report landing losses for each storage tank on the appropriate path within the emissions inventory questionnaire (E
occurred due to normal, routine operation, revise annual and ozone season emissions accordingly. For specific pro
Chapter 4 of 2005 Emissions Inventory Guidelines. This document is available on the TCEQ's website at:
http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/comm_exec/forms_pubs/pubs/rg/rg-360_05/index.html
Per 30 TAC Section 101.10(c), representative sample calculations are required to be submitted with these calendar
episode experienced at your site, submit the following information with your EIQ revisions:
tank FIN,
tank EPN,
API category (as outlined in the "Floating-Roof Tank Designs" section above);
the dates when each landing loss episode occurred, and
all of the information listed under the "Required Data for Landing Loss Emissions Determinations" sectio
To facilitate the submission of this information, you may use the "Landing loss episode template" worksheet contain
landing loss episode.
Questions
Any questions about the use of API TR 2567 equations may be directed to Danielle Nesvacil at (512) 239-2102 or b
data with invalid formatting are entered, the error message will provide instructions
its roof lands on its deck legs or other supports (including roof suspension cables).
oof. Liquid remaining in the bottom of the tank provides a continuous source of vapors
ion (in the case of external floating roof tanks). These emissions, referred to
oming liquid not only displaces those vapors remaining under the floating roof, but also
s of emissions are collectively referred to as filling losses.
g losses and the daily standing idle losses over the entire period that the roof remained
e a tank's floating roof is landed.
landing loss emissions as part of routine program operation. However, landing loss
API) Technical Report (TR) 2567, Evaporative Loss from Storage Tank Floating Roof
re, API TR 2567 separates floating-roof tanks into the following three categories for
y listed above. To accurately use these equations, you must first classify the storage
nk as drain-dry; API states that a tank is only a drain-dry tank if all of its free-standing
iquid heel, according to API:
ck, since liquid typically will still remain in irregular surfaces along the tank bottom.
n validated through field studies to use in the landing loss equations. These saturation
; therefore, no modification to these saturation factors based
n about the tank and its contents for each episode when the roof is landed:
ing idle and filling loss equations to determine the emissions for each roof landing
ions from each episode occurring within a given calendar year. Emissions from
and stored liquid properties for the time of year when the roof landing occurred.
ventory questionnaire (EIQ). If your site determines that landing loss emissions
rdingly. For specific procedural guidance on reporting emissions on the EIQ, please consult
Q's website at:
ted with these calendar year 2002, 2003, and 2004 EIQ revisions. For each landing loss
late" worksheet contained in this workbook to provide the requested data for each
For this landing loss episode, please enter the stored liquid's name and physical pro
Stored liquid's name:
Stored liquid properties
Properties:
stock liquid density, W l
stock vapor molecular weight, Mv
For this landing loss episode, if the liquid that the tank is refilled with is different tha
please enter the following properties for the refilling liquid.
Refilling liquid's name:
Refilling liquid properties
Properties:
stock liquid density, W l
stock vapor molecular weight, Mv
constant from Antoine's equation, B
true vapor pressure of stored liquid, P
Tank Category
internal floating roof with full liquid heel
internal floating roof with partial liquid heel
external floating roof with full liquid heel
external floating roof with partial liquid heel
drain-dry tank (IFR or EFR)
RN012345678
Units
16 dimensionless
90 Fahrenheit
14.7 psia
Constraints:
1 <nd<
40 <Ta<
9.346 <Pa<
6 feet
0 <hv
150 feet
0 <D
3 feet
0 <hle
Property units:
Value:
lb/gallon
lb/lb-mole
degrees Rankine; vapor pressure
equation in units of psia and degrees
Rankine
psia
e liquid that the tank is refilled with is different than the previously stored liquid,
es for the refilling liquid.
Property units:
lb/gallon
lb/lb-mole
degrees Rankine; vapor pressure
equation in units of psia and degrees
Rankine
psia
Value:
366
110
15.717
ored liquid,
Two widely available resources are the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics and Perry's Chemical E
data for selected petroleum stocks.
Other references include:
$ TANKS 4.09d chemical database. Free and available by downloading the TANKS 4.09d software
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/software/tanks/index.html
$
Handbook of Environmental Data on Organic Chemicals. 2nd ed.
Karel Verschueren. (New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.), 1983
2001 edition available at TCEQ Library 547 V61H 2001 V.1
$
Reid, Prausnitz and Sherwood, Properties of Liquids and Gases, McGraw Hill, 1987.
2000 edition available at TCEQ library 660.042 P75P 2000
Yaws and Yang, Property Data: To Estimate Vapor Pressure Easily, Hydrocarbon Proces
Baublik, Fried and Hola, The Vapor Pressures of Pure Substances, Selected Values of th
$
$
$
Antoine's coefficients are also in the NIST Chemistry workbook, which is available online
**Please note that in some resources, such as the NIST Chemistry Workbook, t
http://www.eng.umd.edu/~nsw/ench250/antoine.dat
amic, environmental, transport, safety, and health related properties for organic and inorganic chemicals McGraw, Hi