Automation of loading and unloading operations at oil depots (1980)

Panorama of the river port.

The printing device at the computer center provides information on petroleum products.

A tanker truck with a trailer arrives at a filling station.

Footage showing the technological structure of an oil depot.

A semi-automatic riser for loading light petroleum products into tankers is demonstrated.

A filler pipe of the riser equipped with a maximum level sensor and a support cover is inserted into the tanker truck.

A cartoon explaining the operation of the pipe.

Before loading, the lock of the shut-off valve of the riser is opened with a special key.

Continuation of the cartoon about the operation of the pipe.

The operation of the shut-off valve is demonstrated.

The pipe is automatically removed from the tank.

A button for emergency stopping of loading.

Tanks leave the oil depot.

Design bureau "Transnefteavtomatika".

Bottom loading of a tanker truck.

A complex of computers and peripheral devices implementing control and centralized accounting of petroleum products.

Token dispatching system.

Plastic punched cards are the main carriers of information.

Information that is entered on a punched card.

The computer operator enters the initial information.

The operator hands the punched card the key to the driver.

Refueling a tanker with petroleum products at a post.

A cartoon explaining the operation of a hinged pipeline at a post.

The computer monitors the volume of petroleum product dispensed.

If the filling is normal, the computer switches off the pump unit, closes the shut-off devices and the check valve of the tanker.

The unit's connecting head is automatically disconnected.

The driver receives permission to leave the post.

The operator prints out an invoice on the computer's peripheral device.

Marine oil depot pier.

Reinforced hose assemblies - standers.

Each stander can be used to drain or pour only one type of oil product.

A two-line unit with a product selector replaces a whole battery of such standers.

The designers discuss the unit's design.

Selector.

The two lines of the unit allow pouring and draining various oil products.

The unit is controlled remotely.

The operator controls the unit using a manipulator.

At the operator's command, the selector is automatically fixed opposite the line with the required oil product.

The selector's hydraulic connector is hermetically connected to the shut-off device of the product line.

The tanker is at the pier.

The stander moves to the tanker's inlet and outlet pipe.

An aluminum alloy insert is installed in the pipe's hydraulic connector.

Then the stander's hydraulic connector is hermetically connected to the tanker's pipe.

The stander's links are brought to a free-floating state.

This ensures the links' flexibility during various movements of the tanker.

The operator opens the product line's locking device.

Cartoon explaining the arrival of oil product on a tanker.

Measuring instruments.

Panorama of a pier with tankers.

Alarm.

A wave carries the tanker away from the berth.

The unit automatically switches to emergency operation mode.

The shut-off devices of the product line and linear valves are closed.

The pump is switched off.

The unit is freed from the remains of the oil product.

The stander is automatically disconnected from the tanker.

Cartoon explaining the cleaning of the stander from the remains of the oil product.

Balls and a tampon made of soft polyurethane that clean the stander from the remains of the oil product.

The tugboat moves the tanker away from the pier.

View of the pier from the tugboat.