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    Critical

    RETRACTABLE Facility
    GROUNDING
    ASSEMBLY (RGA® 750)

    Continuous Lightning Protection


    Bonding for Floating Roof Tanks
    Feature Highlights:
    Effective Factory Pre-Tensioned Standards Conformant
    Low-impedance bond prevents Reliable Retractibility: API 545
    fires triggered by lightning No on-site tensioning required NFPA 780
    currents
    Durable and Low Maintenance Certifications
    Corrosion Resistant • Engineered for years of ATEX Approved
    Retractable conductor cable is durability and reliable Patented (US Patent #7,078,621)
    made of marine-grade aluminium performance in corrosive
    • Highly resistant to hydrogen environments
    sulfide (H2S) • Requires virtually no upkeep as
    *Tinned copper option available upon request compared to shunts
    Benefits of RGA®
    Provides low impedance pathways to Reduces the risk of tank fires by
    safely discharge lightning currents subduing sustained arcs during lightning
    events and other electrical phenomena

    Conventional Bypass Conductor vs RGA


    The Retractable Grounding Assembly
    (RGA®)provides direct electrical bonding connection
    between the floating roof and the tank shell,
    substantially reducing the risks of lightning-related
    tank fires.
    Conventional Bypass Conductor The RGA outperforms other traditional bonding
    When the roof is high, the conductor is randomly methods as the retractable cable is always at its
    coiled upon itself resulting in high impedance. shortest possible length - resulting in a low
    resistance and low impedance connection between
    the tank shell and roof.

    Retractable bypass conductor


    When the roof is high, the conductor is as short as
    possible, providing the lowest possible impedance
    between the roof and shell. When a typical floating
    roof tank is 80% full, the impedance of the RGA is
    only 15% that of a conventional bypassconductor.

    Did you know?


    Floating Roof Tank Fires are Commonly Caused by Lightning
    Of the 480 tank fire incidents reported in the media, more than30%
    has been attributed to lightning.

    Floating Roof Tanks are especially vulnerable to direct andindirect


    effects of lightning.
    Source: Tank Fires, Review of Fire
    Incidents 1951–2003, Brandforsk Project 513-021

    Limitations of Shunts 1 2 3

    Metal strips called “shunts” have been used by the


    industry to reduce the risks of rim fires - electrically
    bonding the shell and roof of the tank. Unfortunately, Rust, waxy deposits API Testing proved The floating roof can that
    the bonds established by shunts are unreliable and and paint can line the shunts will arc drift slightly off-center under all
    create a greater risk of sustained arcs: inner wall of the shell, conditions, and cause the shunts even if the
    causing an increase tank wall to lose contact from and shunts are
    in resistance new the shell
    and clean

    Critical Facility Group


    31 Loyang Crescent Singapore 509013
    T: (+65) 62141830 | F: (+65) 62141831 | W: www.critical-facility.com
    | E: enquiry@critical-facility.com

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