Petrol Stations

On the first cold day of a year in the 1930 s — if you lived in the motorized Germany envisioned by Dr. ter Meer — you would drive your new Volkswagen down to the petrol station to have it serviced for the winter. The little car bounces, and if you are the average German you think the bouncing comes less from the cobblestone street than from the tires, for tires are of the synthetics that for one reason or another seem makeshift. "Rubber is rubber," you mutter and that thought provokes a chain of consumer complaints about the new "substitutes" like the synthetic fats you have to eat instead of butter. 

As you turn into the petrol station, you observe with a frown that the pumps have been repainted. The frown passes as you decide that this new color, the half-military gray, is probably a change Der Fuehrer has ordered under the self-sufficiency program. Yes, it is easier on the eyes. 

Owing to their greater exposure to motor vehicle exhaust emissions, it is possible that fatty foods on sale at shops attached to petrol stations or at stalls and shops in busy roads could contain higher concentrations of aromatic hydrocarbons than similar foods on sale at other shops. A study in Germany found that concentrations of benzene and toluene were higher in retail packs from petrol stations on busy roads than from petrol stations in rural areas.15 It also found that retail packs from shops in busy roads contained higher concentrations of benzene, toluene, xylenes and ethylbenzene than retail packs from shops in residential areas. 

Jakobsson R, Ahlbom A, Bellander T, et al. 1993. Acute myeloid leukemia among petrol station attendants. Arch Environ Health 48(4) 255-259. 

Methanol is a liquid which could have an infrastructure parallel to that of gasoline. There could be a methanol pump at the local petrol station. 

Oil and solvent resistance Jet fuel aprons Airport pavements Petrol stations, to prevent the contamination of groundwater Areas where spillage of aircraft fuel or hydraulic directive fuel is common Areas where solvent spillage is common Chemical plants and refineries Chemical warehouses Pavings associated with motorways and bridge decks... 

By virtue of their solvent-resistant property, polysulphide polymers are used extensively as integral fuel tank sealants. The construction industry utilises this property mostly in sealants in jet fuel aprons, laboratory floors, airport pavements and for use in petrol stations. Specific applications will be discussed separately in section 7.4. 

It is estimated that about 1200 petrol stations have been sealed with this technology in Holland. In Germany 500 petrol stations were sealed in this way in 1994 and the rest were committed to completion by 1996 (Lowe, 1994a). 

The homologous series of alkanes has the general formula C 2n+2-The importance of small and medium-sized alkane molecules to society is that they are excellent fuels for cars, planes, boats and homes. The smell of petrol at the petrol station is due to the mixture of covalent hydrocarbon compounds. 

General sale list (GSL) medicines (see Section 1.3.1) are medicines that can be purchased from a wide range of shops, general stores, supermarkets, newsagents, petrol stations, etc. Products classified as GSL are considered to be reasonably safe and therefore able to be sold without the supervision of a pharmacist. 

We have finally got the new liability regime (Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act—inserted into that Act by Section 57 of the Environment Act 1995) for contaminated land throughout the majority of the United Kingdom (UK). What we do not seem to know is how much contaminated land there is throughout the UK and what the significance is of the contamination that is or may be present. Various studies have been made to determine the amount of contaminated land there is in the UK, and if the results of the various studies are to be believed the liabilities associated with this land are massive. A study1 in 1998, for example, found that 58 000 hectares of brownfield land was unused or potentially available for development. In another study,2 it was found that at least 30% of petrol stations contaminated groundwater. 

Emiaeions from Industries, petrol stations and vehicles... 

The present infrastructures and facilities for oil such as petrol stations, tanker lorries, and freight trains can be used, without any substantial modification, for the storage and transportation of organic hydrides, which have similar chemical properties to petrol and kerosene. 

Groundwater and soil samples from 16 locations near petrol stations (PS) and mechanic workshops (MW) aroxmd Calabar, Nigeria, were analyzed for heavy metals and hydrocarbons to determine their concentrations and assess the impact of the PS and MW on groundwater in the area. Results show that mean concentrations of cadmium, chromium, manganese, nickel, and lead in groundwater are higher than the maximum admissible concentration (Nganje et al., 2007). 

Nganje, T. N. Edet, A. E. Ekwere, S. J. (2007). Concentrations of heavy metals and hydrocarbons in groundwater near petrol stations and mechanic workshops in Calabar metropolis, southeastern Nigeria. Emrironmental Geosciences Vol. 14 no. 1 p. 15-29 001 10.1306/eg.08230505005. 

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