Fuel Tank Test Chamber

CSZ’s fuel tank test chamber is designed to test the quality and reliability of automotive fuel tanks. Fuel tanks are temperature conditioned to -40 ° F along with a glycol mixture that is also chilled to -40 ° F. The fuel tanks are filled with the glycol fluid and placed into the -40 ° F chamber. Tanks are soaked in the chamber for a predetermined length of time, removed from the chamber, raised to a specific height, and dropped.

To meet testing schedules, the CSZ design includes the use of a walk-in chamber combined with a liquid chilling system and storage tank cooled by one refrigeration system for testing multiple fuel tanks. The walk-in chamber includes four (4) access doors and a stainless steel shelf system allowing the user to install and remove two (2) fuel tanks per door.

Special Features

Walk-In Chamber

• A manual defrost cycle allowed for periodic removal of any ice that could collect on the coils.
• Four custom-size access doors with safety release latches to load and unload tanks.
• Roller shelves were used to help with the manual loading and unloading of filled fuel tanks in the chamber.

Liquid Chilling System

• Machine package included a 300-gallon, insulated fluid reservoir.
• Pumped fluid from the storage tank to the individual fuel tanks.
• Gasoline station style nozzle for manually filling individual tanks.
• Fluid gage accurate to 0.1 gallons to measure the amount of fluid placed in each fuel tank.
• Fluid delivery system capable of delivering 15 gallons/min of -40ºF glycol.