LPG tank for grain dryer

[Longneck]

We are just putting up a new grainstore and need a gas supplier for the dryer.
From previous experience I can recall this being a bit of a minefield. I know calor are probably the dearest but who else is out there?

Also, where to site the tanks and can I put a pipe under the concrete yard to supply the dryer? seem to remember they don't like any tanks near building etc!!

 

[Nick.]

Buy your own tank, then shop around for gas.
It's amazing the savings.

 

[Walton2]

They definitely don't want you to have an underground pipe...it's not practical...and buy your own tank...plan ahead when siting drier to make tank easy fill and not too far away..

 

[Longneck]

That's what I don't get, they don't want a tank near a building and they don't like pipes underground so you have to have pipes laying across a concrete yard, how is that better?????

Where do you buy tanks from?

 

[Courier]

Are you allowed pipes in a duct with removable panels on top ?

 

[Philip Watkins]

The pipework from tanks to sheds is mostly underground on poultry sites. It's impractical to be overground.

 

[radar]

The pipework from tanks to sheds is mostly underground on poultry sites. It's impractical to be overground.

Health and safety executive required our underground pipe to be inspected for signs of corrosion! Not possible so scrapped gas supply to flat decks and put in electric - gas heaters etc were past their best so not a difficult decision.

 

[Philip Watkins]

Health and safety executive required our underground pipe to be inspected for signs of corrosion! Not possible so scrapped gas supply to flat decks and put in electric - gas heaters etc were past their best so not a difficult decision.

A lot of our sites have had to have underground metal pipes replaced with plastic but it's still underground.

 

[chaffcutter]

Ours was in a duct across 45' of yard and a good job it was when the drier caught fire!

@Longneck where are you? Anywhere in the midlands I can give you a contact for tanks and cheapest gas, pm if any use.

 

[radar]

Health and safety executive required our underground pipe to be inspected for signs of corrosion! Not possible so scrapped gas supply to flat decks and put in electric - gas heaters etc were past their best so not a difficult decision.

Further thought - our underground steel pipe may or may not have deteriorated, but nowhere as much as the overground pipe strapped to the front of the barn where it is exposed to all the elements, and does show deterioration. HSE are not bothered at all about this! Seems that somewhere an underground pipe leaked into a cellar and caused a fatal explosion. How an underground pipe with no "cellar" is going to be a problem is beyond me.

 

[Will Blackburn]

They don't want ducts because a leak will cause a build up of gas. Surprisingly difficult to get a length of liquid LPG hose to run to a drier.

 

[chickens and wheat]

Calor insisted on ducts last week,, confused.com

 

[Will Blackburn]

I want to duct the roadway so I could reinstate before installation, not a chance. Avanti gas though.

 

[Lincsman]

Get a diesel dryer.

 

[phillipe]

fitted 4 calor tanks this year ,all pipes buried ,the pipe is plastic so no corrosion,the calor guy alex is who i deal with and is atop bloke very helpful,calor fixed price for 2 years all tanks buried

 

[Adeptandy]

I'm re sitting my LPG qualification beginning of May, news to me if not allowed underground, Calor had an advert on tv last night promoting tanks underground, be a bit strange if the pipe work then had to run on the surface [emoji848]

 

[Adeptandy]

If it was my instal, I'd pipe plastic inside a sleeve, just remember at the point the plastic gas pipe appears above ground it needs uv protection [emoji6]

 

[septimus]

Anyone remember Stockline plastics in Glasgow? The factory exploded after old underground LPG pipes had corroded.
Sure all the rules changed after that

 

[Walton2]

I had to re route my supply a few years back....not cheap and had to ensure liquid lpg supply was above ground.....or inspectable every metre!
When I dug up my Denso wrapped underground pipes that had been buried for 7 years.....they were immaculate... .If you think about it though...they might've been knackered and propane leaking away slowly....so I think the correct result...but I wasn't happy with disruption and cost at the time.

 

[Adeptandy]

I had to re route my supply a few years back....not cheap and had to ensure liquid lpg supply was above ground.....or inspectable every metre!
When I dug up my Denso wrapped underground pipes that had been buried for 7 years.....they were immaculate... .If you think about it though...they might've been knackered and propane leaking away slowly....so I think the correct result...but I wasn't happy with disruption and cost at the time.

Thats why it should be inspected every year and have the soundness of the system pressure tested, regulators checked and gas fired equipment checked.