Tim O'Toole

Notes From the 2022 API Spring Refining and Equipment Standards Meeting

STI/SPFA Standards Engineer, Joe Mentzer, had the opportunity to attend the API 2023 Fall Refining and Equipment Standards Meeting in Chicago. Below are notes of interest for STI/SPFA members. This…

Advance Tank and Construction History

In 1968, Spence and Betty Van Alsburg founded Prairie Tank to design, fabricate and construct industrial and municipal tanks, as well as other plate structures. From 1968 to 1984, Prairie…

NIST Research on Ethanol “Corrosion:” What it Really Says

Clarifying NIST’s Research on Corrosion in Sump Headspaces The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a study titled, “Corrosion of copper and steel alloys in a simulated underground storage tank…