Patent ID: 6939081

Claim:
A modular fuel dispensing and containment assembly for storing fuel in at least one fuel tank and pumping the fuel to a plurality of fuel dispensers at locations remote from the at least one fuel tank, said assembly comprising: a vault located underground, said vault having a floor, end walls, side walls, a top supporting a lid, and an interior, said vault being fluid tight and said floor, end walls, side walls and lid having exposed inner surfaces; a fuel tank held within said vault, said fuel tank being separated from said exposed inner surfaces, said fuel tank having a fuel filling line and a fuel outlet line, said fuel tank being separated from at least one of said end walls and side walls a sufficient distance to permit service personnel to enter an interior of said vault for inspection purposes; a turbine corridor positioned with a bottom above said lid of said vault, said turbine corridor having an interior turbine corridor passageway leading from an area over said fuel tank where said fuel filling line and said fuel outlet line communicate with said fuel tank, said turbine corridor also being positioned underground and at least one of said side and end walls of said turbine corridor being open at at least one connection passageway for connection to at least one piping corridor and said turbine corridor passageway being sufficiently large for service personnel to enter said turbine corridor passageway; a plurality of piping corridors at least one of which being sealingly affixed onto said connection passageway of said turbine corridor, said piping corridor having a floor, side walls forming a piping corridor passageway, a supply end sealed to said connection passageway of said turbine corridor, an exit end and being both underground and fluid tight and said piping corridor passageway being sufficiently large for service personnel to enter, said piping corridor having an opening at said supply end and at said exit end; a dispensing module sealingly affixed onto one of said piping corridors, said dispensing module having a floor, side walls, end walls and a cover, said dispensing module being fluid tight and said side walls of said dispensing module being underground being accessible through a dispensing module passageway and said dispensing module passageway being sufficiently large to permit the entry of service personnel, said piping corridor passageway, said dispensing module passageway and said turbine corridor passageway forming a single interconnected air volume; means for passing air through said single interconnected air volume; and a fuel dispenser mounted above said dispensing module.