It's cleaning time
This week, DP staff are in the office, ready to talk to to you about tank cleaning. Now is the time to check your fuel to make sure it flows freely when you need it this winter. Call 01737 767524.
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Today in history
1400 - Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales.
1630 - The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changes its name to Boston.
1795 - British capture Capetown South Africa.
1810 - Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule. Mexican Independence Day celebrates this event.
1848 - Slavery abolished in all French territories.
1906 - Roald Amundsen discovers South Pole.
1920 - A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the JP Morgan building in New York City’ Wall Street, killing 38 and injuring 400.
1955 - A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first submarine to launch a ballistic missile.
1959 - The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
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No project too big
DP Fuel Tank Services provides a complete gas freeing and fuel tank cleaning services for all types of fuel storage tank: underground/above ground diesel and oil tanks, underground petrol tanks, back-up generator tanks, commercial and domestic heating oil tanks and industrial sized heavy oil tanks.
Our preferred method of fuel tank cleaning is man entry, as we believe this is the most thorough and efficient, but we are also experienced in and equipped for high pressure jet washing without man entry. For this we use a lance with a universal swivelling head to clean without streaking. As much water as possible is cleaned and recycled to reduce disposal costs.
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Operating at Uckfield hospital
When Uckfield Community Hospital in Kent suspected it had the potential to develop a leak problem with the fuel system for its Volvo back-up petrol generator, it called in the expertise of DP Fuel Tank Services..
To provide the hospital with a system that will last it for at least another 20 years, DP FTS put together a plan to line the 13,500ltr underground storage tank, below the hospital car park, and replace all the pipework with modern plastic pipes.
For DP FTS’s strategic partners RPM to line the tank, it had to be completely emptied and cleaned. This, and the removal and replacement of all the pipework by DP FTS’s other strategic partner TVP, would have left the hospital without a back-up generator.
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Just for fun
We have all used the rhyme which starts, “30 days hath September”, but this has not always been the case. For example, in 1752 there were only 19 days in the month. Why?
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