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2021年1月6日发(作者：郁国城)
Filling station
A petrol station, filling station, gas station, fueling station, service station, garage,
gasbar, petrol pump or petrol bunk (India) is a facility which sells fuel and lubricants
for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold are petrol (known as gasoline in the
United States and Canada, although the term petrol is also understood in Canada) or
diesel fuel.
Fuel dispensers are used to pump petrol/gasoline, diesel, CNG, CGH2, HCNG, LPG,
LH2, ethanol fuel, biofuels like biodiesel, kerosene, or other types of fuel into
vehicles. Fuel dispensers are also known as bowsers (in some parts of Australia).[1],
petrol pumps (in Commonwealth countries), or gas pumps (in North America).
Many filling stations also have small convenience stores, and some also sell
propane or butane and have added shops to their primary business. Conversely, some
chain stores—supermarkets, discount superstores, warehouse clubs, and traditional
convenience stores—offer filling stations on premises.
The term
known as
Elsewhere in the English-speaking world, mainly in the Commonwealth, the fuel is
known as and the term stationor pumpis used. In the
United Kingdom and South Africa
petrol station may have no service/maintenance facilities which would justify this
description. Similarly, in Australia, the term service station (describes any
petrol station. In Japanese English, it is called a
is called a petrol pump or a petrol bunk. In some regions of America and Australia,
filling stations have a mechanic on duty, but this is uncommon in other parts of the
world.
Most filling stations are built in a similar manner, with most of the fueling
installation underground, pump machines in the forecourt and a point of service inside
a building. Single or multiple fuel tanks are usually deployed underground. Local
regulations and environmental concerns may require a different method, with some
stations storing their fuel in container tanks, entrenched surface tanks or unprotected
fuel tanks deployed on the surface. Fuel is usually offloaded from a tanker truck into
the tanks through a separate valve, located on the filling station's perimeter. Fuel from
the tanks travels to the dispenser pumps through underground pipes. For every fuel
tank, direct access must be available at all times. Most tanks can be accessed through
a service canal directly from the forecourt.
Older stations tend to use a separate pipe for every kind of available fuel and for
every dispenser. Newer stations may employ a single pipe for every dispenser. This
pipe houses a number of smaller pipes for the individual fuel types. Fuel tanks,
dispenser and nozzles used to fill car tanks employ vapor recovery systems, which
prevents releases of vapor into the atmosphere with a system of pipes. The exhausts
are placed as high as possible. A vapor recovery system may be employed at the
exhaust pipe. This system collects the vapors, liquifies them and releases them back
into the lowest grade fuel tank available.