Posted: 3/1/2008 3:15:56 PM EDT
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Hopefully one of you guys knows about delivies or tanks. I have a 1000 gal steel tank. I put a stick in it and it measures 52 inches from the bottom of the tank to top, not including the fill pipe but the true top of the tank. There's 18 inches of oil left in the tank. Any guess on how many gallons I have left? When they fill my tank do they really/competely fill the tank to the fill pipe? |
| are you sure its not 48inch? usually 1000 gallon storage tanks are 48 inchx 10 foot, that either way that would put you at around 340 gallons at 18 inches. The working safe fill of a 1000 gallon AST or UST is around 950 gallons, they never fill right up to the fill pipe b/c fuel oil expands. They calibrate all the meters at the terminals for 60 degrees F to get accurate ammounts in the fuel oil trucks . |
Close. That would work for a square tank or one that is standing on its end. But for this situation, I'd say 331 gallons.
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I tried to find a job where I had no math to do, but I liked EMS so I had to give up my dream of a math free job.... You have a patient in need of a dopamine drip. Dopmine is given in micrograms per kilogram per minute to a patient via IV. The doc orders 5mcg/kg/min. The patient weighs 176 lbs. You have 400mg of dopamine in a 500 cc bag and a 60 drop IV set. You need to figure out how many mcg per kg per minute to give the guy by determining the right drip rate. It still makes my head hurt. In all honesty the question is a tad formulaic as 176 converts to 80 kilos. NYS always asks the question with a 176lb(80kilo) or 220lb(100 kilo) patient. The rest still gives me a headache but I can muck my way through it for testing purposes. Also, in all honesty, we have a handy dandy drip chart in the ambulance that has the drip rates ready to go. |