Some Dad tweetz:
So Dublin City Council want to lay a fuel pipe from the port to the airport.What could possibly go wrong?
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Some Dad tweetz:
So Dublin City Council want to lay a fuel pipe from the port to the airport.What could possibly go wrong?
Um.
Fuel pipes are used throughout the world.
What’s the concern?
A tunnel to transport this seems an excellent idea – why would you not prefer this over carrying the fuel on the roads in fuel tankers?
Surely more people have died in accidents with trucks than incidents involving fuel lines? Jet fuel has a very very high ignition point anyway. Gas lines are much more dangerous.
That shouldn’t have been a reply. Derp
+1
northside traffic a standstill for the next few years?
Another armchair know it all.
Asked him if he’d like to join your club?
I’ve learnt a lot from my armchair. I even read a book about how to build your own furniture. I was going to build my own armchair but I thought, sure I know it all about armchairs now, I’d rather just sit here.
Could they not have done this when they built the port tunnel?! More diggin’
You’d put a pipe carrying jet fuel inside / alongside a tunnel?
Under it / along it, while they were digging everything up in the first place.
Ow di liddle doe.
IS THIS NECESSARY?!
is Fingleton White who want to build this pipe rather then DCC
one minor detail – dublin city council do not ‘want to lay a fuel pipe from the port to the airport’.
the sign quite clearly says the application has been made by fingleton white.
Dim Dad.
Without getting high and mighty on you all, this is a very normal, and very safe way of transporting jet fuel…
Did you know that Dublin airport is one of the very few airports in Europe that does not have a hydrant system and relies solely on delivering fuel by truck [bowser]?
Did you know that Dublin airport, at best, has about 1 day’s supply of jet fuel on site at any given time?? i.e. cut off supplies from Dublin port = no fuel for aircraft within about 24 hours!!!!
The above paint an absolutely unacceptable risk to aviation in Ireland. With one fell swoop, all air traffic out of Dublin could be compromised because we have no fuel available for aircraft.
These days, jet fuel transport is managed at the same safety level as that of aircraft, i.e. ridiculously high! There are numerous international standards and guidelines that DAA will need to follow to build such a pipeline, and commission it.
No risk, [other than some traffic risk along the building area], and we should actually be glad that a government is actually improving one of the main supportive arteries of transport in Ireland!!!
Rant over, anyone want any aviation or jet fuel related gems, please get in touch… I know a little about such things!!
Conor
Definite whiff of a PR release off that.
This https://youtu.be/wlMwc1c0HRQ
“i.e. cut off supplies from Dublin port = no fuel for aircraft within about 24 hours!!!!”
Oh you mean like a pipe being cut off?
First off, no PR, I don’t represent anyone from IAA, DAA, Dublin City Council etc. I work for an airline and I’m responsible for developing worldwide jet fuel standards. One of those standards is risk analysis to supply to a port. The pipeline addition is only a small part of a tender that DAA has put out for the overall overhaul of Dublin airports fuel infrastructure. Most airports in the world have about 4 to 5 days worth of fuel on site. Dublin airport falls below most developed countries standards in terms of available fuel on site.
If we allow Dublin airport to grow with current fuel facilities, we would be unable to fuel aircraft. We had IATA fuel forum in Dublin last May where DAA were advertising their tender to upgrade said facilities which appears to be now going ahead… Finally
this http://www.mytenders.ie/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=SEP419146
a similar pipeline plan from Fingleton White got permission in 2000 but didn’t go ahead, the planning docs are here and are worth a read http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/122692.htm re safety arguements etc
turn balbriggan into a port and pipe it down to the airport from there. place is a sh1thole anyway, and could do with the investment. fingal cc would grant planning in a heartbeat..
Let’s never have any infrastructure development. Ever.
Put a bike path on top of it! Thats on my way to work :-)
Good post Conor – completely agree with you. This infrastructure is needed to take these trucks off the road, many of which speed by me as I’m driving at the 80k/hr speed limit on the motorway to & from the airport.