Everything You Need To Know About Above Ground Storage Tanks ...

Everything You Need To Know About Above Ground Storage Tanks Insulation

If you want to explore more about above ground storage tanks used in all kinds of industries, you’ve reached the right platform. Here we will outline a comprehensive guide to storage tanks, which are used to store oil, gas, and beverages. No matter what it contains, you need to store it at a certain temperature range to ensure the consistency of the substances inside. These tanks further help to improve production steps in multiple sectors.

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While there are multiple options available to insulate storage tanks, so selecting the right one isn’t always an easy job. You also need to consider various points as important as some containers are specifically manufactured to address specific needs. To meet industry regulations and standards of storage tanks, you need to make your selection wisely to store the substance with extreme protection. 

Now, let’s take a glance into an above ground tankinsulation used in all types of industries –

What Are The Materials Used To Design Above Ground Storage Tanks?

Several types of tank insulation options are available in the market, among which some are common or inexpensive to address all your industrial storage needs. A huge investment is required to get an industrial storage tank for better storage options. The two of the most common insulation materials for tanks are –

1. Lightweight Composites: It’s quite an affordable and easy-to-use insulation material option, which is efficient to store chemicals with extreme safety of handlers. These types of industrial tanks have lightweight composites, which include silica, mineral wool, ceramics, and cellulose – everything needs careful handling.  

2. Foams: A foam insulation involves a range of industry-standard materials, including polystyrene, polyamide, and polyurethane to manufacture above ground storage tanks. This lightweight foam has low-density and non-insulation properties, which is a perfect choice to store a range of chemicals safely. 

How To Select The Right Industrial Storage Tanks Insulation?

The best industrial tank insulation material will rely upon a range of factors, which are as follows –

• An Industrial Storage Tank’s Location

• Substances Inside The Tanks

• Materials Used In Its Design

• Tenure of Its Storage

Most of the tanks are made of stainless steel, steel, or galvanized steel, which are extremely conductive to transfer heat. That’s a major concern and corrosion is even a potential issue with such industrial tanks. Certain lightweight tanks are specifically made to allow moisture to be trapped between the surface and insulation of above ground storage tanks. It leads to erosion under the insulation, which recommends all of the tank owners to pick either a panel system or a custom-made solution. 

What Are The Benefits of Storage Tank Insulation?

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Before selecting your industrial storage tank insulation system, it’s important to understand why making the right choice is extremely worthwhile. The best thermal tank insulation and surface protection material will allow to increase a tank’s lifespan and protect the substances inside as well. The temperature changes can even cause vapors to expand and contract, which leads to breathing loss. 

The best industrial tanks insulation will eliminate such problems and offer cost-savings to multiple users. It further helps to keep hazardous chemicals not getting contaminated into the environment. The right insulated tank will also ensure the substances inside don’t freeze or get worsen out of the excessive heat. Storage tanks help the liquid content to remain in a solid state, which will eventually support in speedy production. 

For those tanks holding flammable products, it’s vital to consider non-insulation material with aims to get some extra safety inside as well as outside of the tank. 

Let’s hope you’ve now got a complete idea about an above-ground storage tank along with its advantages for all types of industries. 

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Dear Sir,

I have been appointed as research and design trainee engineer in a private organisation that is doing job as Fabrication, Installation and designing field.


The details are as follow:

Capacity of Tank: 500 BBLs
Ambient Temperature Range: -5 Deg C to Max 55 Deg C
Crude Oil Storage Temperature: 38-68 Deg C
Height of Tank : 10
Tank Dia : 40

Cladding Material : GI Sheet Gauge of min. 18
Internal FRP Coating @ 3mm Thickness to all surfaces (bottom side and ceiling)
External Coating for all the surface
* 1 coat of Zinc Epoxy Primer at 50 microns dft
Please Help me in finding the following:

* Type of Suitable Insulation
* Calculated Thickness
* basis for the Calculation
* Details of the Calculation


Please I need help in Insulating a Crude Oil Storage Tank.

Thank You,

Zain Ahmed Siddiqee
Please Answer me
You have given data, I think a bit more could help reply from an expert at insulation (I am not).
1. The tank is existing or under design? It seems that it is not heated (by e.g. steam coil, etc), please confirm.
2. Is it a floating roof tank (as expected) or a cone roof tank?
3. What is the purpose of insulation? Can we say that a minimum storage temperature of 38 oC is adequate for all crudes stored? Insulation will delay cooling, but will not reduce heat loss to zero.
4. -5 oC to + 55 oC is the range between max and min ambient temperatures ever recorded? Some minimum value (say 0 oC) has to be considered for the heat losses on which insulation thickness will be based on.

Edited by kkala, 26 November - 05:01 AM.

Dear KKAKA,

1.This tank is under design. it is steamed jacketed for heating

2. It is cone roof tank

3. Yes we need to maintain insulation to such critical thickness that crude oil temperature will not fall than min storage temperature i.e., 38 Deg C. keeping in view that minimum ambient temperature of surrounding -5 Deg C.
Since tank size plays a role, another question about tank dimensions. What are the units for H=10 and D=40? These cannot be meters, since tank capacity is 500 bbl = US gal =79.5 m3. Even if they represent feet, tank volume (cylinder) would be 406 m3. Could you clarify?
http://www.cheresour...ing-large-tank/ '> http://www.cheresour...ing-large-tank/ may be useful as an introduction. If tank is steam jacketed, temperature of outside metal (contacting insulation) would approach that of condensing steam and insulation has to consider this. But it would be hard to control crude oil temperature withing a restricted range, (e.g. 38-68 oC), despite the 3 mm FRP coat (not having heard of it). I suppose flash point of the crude is lower and nitrogen blanketing is applied on the tank.
Local refinery crude oil tanks (floating roof), needing heating from time to time (not all of them need it), have steam coils at the bottom. I think electric heating is safer today (more precise control of temperatures), though never seen applied. Needing to lower crude oil viscosity, steam coil or electric heating could heat mainly at the bottom, near the exit line.
Insulation design can be the next step after specifying way of heating. If you have decided on a steam jacket (rather risky for crude tanks), what is the temperature of condensing steam?
Zain
1. The purpose of insulation is for energy conservation (economics) and/or for personnel safety reason (hot surface must be kept below 60C). The crude tank temperature is maintained by the heating steam not by the insulation. Insulation helps to minimize the heat loss due to temperature difference between tank and ambient.
2.When I look at the operating conditions, there is.not enough justification to insulate the tank except for the steam jacket portion for personnel protection.
3. Please keep in mind the problem of under-insulation-corrosion problem that you may have to deal with in the future.
4. My advise is, reconsider the need to install insulation for the crude tank

Edited by S.AHMAD, 03 December - 10:19 PM.

Besides the above post by S.AHMAD, it is anticipated that a crude oil tank (of up to 60 oC max storage temperature) in a local refinery would be only peripherally insulated from ground to a height of about 2 m. Heating would be by steam coil at tank bottom.
This is what we were instructed to do for a slops tank ( m3, floating roof, ), which could alternatively be used as crude oil tank. Storage temperature could be set to lower values than 60 oC. See http://www.cheresources.com/invision/topic/-slops-storage-heating-and-handling for more data and safety issues.

Edited by kkala, 11 December - 05:54 AM.