IS 13187 : 1991 Road tankers for light petroleum products - Specification

1 Scope

1.1 This standard covers basic requirements for the design,construction, inspection, filling ratio of tankers and design ofvehicles and ancillary equipments.

1.2 This specification is meant mainly for tankers for lightpetroleum products like commercial naphtha, gasoline, kerosene,diesel oil, etc. The products like aviation turbine fuel whichrequire special precautions for purity and heavy products, such aslubricating oils, fuel oils, etc, are not covered in this standard.Also, unstable products and LPG are excluded from the scope of thisstandard.

2 References

IS 226 :1975Structural steel (standard quality)

IS 1079 :1988Hot rolled carbon steel sheet and strip

IS 1239 : Part 1 :1979 Mild steel tubes tubulars and otherwroughtsteel fittings:Part 1 Mild steel tubes

IS 1367 :1979Technical supply conditions for threaded steelfasteners

IS 1875 :1978Carbon steel billets, blooms, slabs and bars forforgings

IS 1978 :1982Line pipe

IS 2004 :1978Carbon steel forgings for general engineeringpurposes

IS 2062 :1984Weldable structural steel

IS 2712 :1979Compressed asbestos fibre jointings

IS 2825 :1969Code for unfire pressure vessels