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Mr. Dennehy has been V.P. of Marketing and Communications with Espar for 9 years. He has played an integral part in working with several levels of government agencies in both the U.S. and Canada to bring awareness to the challenges of idling, anti-idling technologies and the reduction of green house gases. Mr. Dennehy will entertain questions on anti-idling technologies, state regulations and state/province initiatives regarding rebates/incentives and also idling laws and fines within each state.

Heat Emmissions

December 6, 2007 @ 5:17 pm


Q.		I run a Chemical operation that moves low flash point solvents. I am looking for a solution that eliminates the potential of an ignition source coming from an onboard heater that could get to residual fumes from the tank unit. We are concerned about the potential to have the ignition source be a heater such as Espar. Is anyone in our industry running these units in this application….are they employing special safeguards?

Two solutions: Shut off the heater when filling the solvent tanks. If you fear the operator could forget you could put a relay / outside switch that would kick the heater off if a number of parameters were applied. i.e. opening the gas tank cap. Additionally you could put a spark arrestor on the exhaust, this eliminates the already very slim chance of an ash. Of course you would have to periodically clean this. One last thought; if the heater was serviced regularly you would reduce chances even further.