oil storage tank foundations
oil storage tank foundations
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Any web sites/details for 100,000 gallon fuel tank foundations. I have seen a few around but did not design any. I need input and ideas for the first.
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Any web sites/details for 100,000 gallon fuel tank foundations. I have seen a few around but did not design any. I need input and ideas for the first.
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RE: oil storage tank foundations
RE: oil storage tank foundations
I imagine I will need a ring beam, center post footing, layer of sand under bottom of tank, sump, monitoring wells, and layer of compacted fill.
Any step by step or reference would be appreciated.
RE: oil storage tank foundations
The containment is separate from the foundation.
RE: oil storage tank foundations
Check out API-650 (and similar related API documents- see their website). It will set you back a couple of hundred bucks or more. But it does have info in one of the Appendices on foundation design and leak-detection system. (Don't get too hung up on their foundation design methodology, which is overkill for most tanks.) See Structural Engineering Handbook for chapter on tanks and foundations. And check out AISI's hand books on tank and steel plate structure design.
If it hasn't been done, at some point, someone needs to check out NFPA-30 or the Uniform Fire Code as they pertain to the tank, and local/state/ federal regulations pertinent to the tank (for example: containment issues, leak detection, venting, setback from property lines, emissions control, etc.)
RE: oil storage tank foundations
The ring wall is designed for confinement of the soil as a retaining wall, with loaded soil. High modulus material under the tank will reduce the load on the wall (shell base or re-compacted coquina works well).
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Lutfi - You must have changed your hotmail address. The email "bounced" back.
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A relevant paper was by Bjerrum on oil storage tank failure in Norway - it was in London's ISSMFE conference 1957. Anyway - just some case histories.
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the following site has a software and API 650 specs:
http://www.chempute.com/tank.htm#Purchase%20Online
As for geotechnical end of it, the affected foundation soils would be tank dia^0.75 or 27ft^0.75 = 12 ft. Because the stresses are high, we use 18" compacted crushed rock overlain by 12" mud slab overlain by ring-wall footings. From past experience, allowable bearing capacity of 3ksf yields nearly 3 ft wide footings and ring wall thicknesses ranges from 12" to 18".
If your subsoils are cohesive, use UU triaxial test and FS of 3.0 to get to gross bearing capacity.
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RE: oil storage tank foundations
RE: oil storage tank foundations
If you have taller tanks, say nearly 75 ft, then we are forced to jump to pile foundations due to wind and larger loads.
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I remember now that Foundation Engineering book by Jumikis 1987 edition also had special foundations coverage-just am not sure how much tank foundation was included.
Yes, I would appreciate the paper on tanks on clay, and would search for your email.
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Ciao.
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(wished my daughter would teach me!)
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BigH - Good idea, I'll write up a draft version of what I was taught (it's not hard, and the way we did it, it's free) and post it on my page in a few days (will ask step-daughter to refine the document).
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