RAF Brize Norton is located about 30 minutes west of Oxford in the United Kingdom. RAF Brize Norton is the largest RAF Station worldwide with around 6,000 staff and Service Personnel over it’s 1,190 acres! It is home to the RAF’s Air Mobility Force (Air Transport) and Air-to-Air Refuelling forces, having aircraft including the Airbus Voyager for Air-to-Air Refuelling and Transport and the Atlas C.1 A400M and Boeing C-17A Globemaster that are both used solely for transport. It was also the home of the Lockheed Martin C130-J Hercules until it was retired in 2023. It first opened as a flying training station in 1937 and since 1945 has been a Transport Command for both the RAF and US Air Force.
Large airport runways often utilise by-pass oil separators due to the very large catchment are that is being covered. On this site, 3no. SPEL Stormceptor’s were utilised to cover the main runways and taxiways, however for areas where the spill risk was higher, such as in refuelling locations, or bowser parking areas, full retention separators are often used, such as in this case a SPEL Puraceptor P050/1CSC which has a spill capacity of around 17,000 litres and a SPEL Puraceptor FP1C/SC forecourt separator was also supplied which has a spill capacity of 7,600, which is the capacity of a complete section of a standard fuel tanker, however on some MOD bases, large fuel tankers are used and therefore larger spill capacity is required, such as from a P050/1CSC.
- 460C1/SC
- 325C1/SC/Special
- 6400C1/SC/ExHvy
- P050/1CSC/Spec
- FP1C/SC