OrangeQuest all small portable tanks are built to the regs.. No use for you to be involved in this discussion unless you know the regulations.
Can you be anymore wrong than with this statement?
It is you that needs to read the regulations posted by the EPA.
The Regs are there to be met by all builders.
Is this statement you made wrong? I am building a boat, I run a company that must comply with federal and state regulations to be on the water. Would I not need to know the regulations that apply to me? My boat is being built to the USCG regulations even those that do not apply to the outboard motors for fuel and electrical.
You voiced your "expert" opinion on my portable tank being in compliance... if you bothered reading my statement, I already stated it was, and so is the fuel lines and primer bulb. Something you don't know is my 5HP outboard on our canoe also meets the EPA regulations on emissions. Another thing you do not know is because the portable tanks build up to 5PSI of pressure before venting, if the motor is not running, that pressure can reach enough to force the needle and seat in the carb to open, dumping fuel down into the cylinders. The warm motor then vaporizes the fuel and causes more fuel vapors to escape into the atmosphere than if the fuel tank was not sealed. If the motor is running it causes it to run richer and increases the exhaust emissions. Which causes more harm to the water the motor is in. So much for EPA regulating things for the better.
I spent 30 years repairing and modifying Ford vehicles to meet federal regulations on emission controls. I worked on engines with the only requirement was a working PVC system to the full-blown emission controls on modern automobiles on the roads today. I worked side by side with Ford engineers on those same emission controls and even some of Fords experimental vehicles. I have forgot more about emission controls than most people ever learn in a life time. Whereas you read about them I made sure that the vehicles I worked on complied to them.
The EPA is just starting to get involved with the emissions from vessels over the last few decades whereas they have been involved in the automotive industry for more than 50 years. I have been part of the evolving emission controls as they have been changing from just controlling the bypass gasses from combustion to the control of the exhaust gases from the tailpipe. I can tell you in detail the evaporative vapor control systems, how they work, the components involved and how to diagnose and test them down to what diagnostic test equipment that would be used. I was what was called an emission control specialist. I diagnosed and repaired, if possible, vehicles that entered a legal battle with FoMoCo under the lemon laws for the greater Houston area for more than 20 years of my career in the automotive industry. Very few of those vehicles were bought back by FoMoCo. This topic is nothing new to me.
define what is running lose emission controls and how they apply to the marine boat builder:
1060.104 What running loss emission control requirements apply
§ 1060.104 What running loss emission control requirements apply?
(a) Engines and equipment must meet running loss requirements as follows:
(1) Marine SI engines and vessels are not subject to running loss emission standards.
Diurnal emissions. Evaporative hydrocarbon emissions may not exceed 0.2 grams per gallon of fuel tank capacity when measured using the test procedures specified in § 1048.501. Diurnal emission controls must continue to function during engine operation.
Marine vessels using spark-ignition engines are subject to the requirements of 40 CFR part 1045. The vessels are not required to comply with the evaporative emission standards and related requirements of this part 1048.
Please note: 40 CFR part 1045 is about exhaust emission stds for outboards and PWC and are not required to comply.
These quoted EPA CFRs are to confirm what Dan has been saying TOM! Please use your expertise in this subject to prove otherwise.
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