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Transparent Tank

Transparent Tank

Transparent Tank

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My facility has a product that requires exposure to light to reduce the color.  Has anyone seen, specified, or designed a large (~10,000 gal) transparent or translucent tank that would be placed into a chemical plant or refinery that would satisfy API or other guidelines.

RE: Transparent Tank

I don't know how you can control the integrated exposure in a tank.  You would probably do better with a flow- through treatment device.  Imagine a Pyrex tube with an arc lamp inside it, surrounded by an annulus of flowing fluid contained by a larger tube.  Arrange them in ranks like tubes in a heat exchanger, and you've got a ... I don't know what, but I swear I've seen them advertised, somewhere.


Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Transparent Tank

Sounds like you need a very big aquarium.  An open top tank comes to mind as a possibility, but keeping the birds and their mess out of the product would be a challenge.  Maybe an open top tank with a glass cover?

Steve Braune
Tank Industry Consultants
www.tankindustry.com

RE: Transparent Tank

Is just part of the spectrum of sunlight responsible for reducing the color.  If so, this would allow you to apply the right spectrum in more concentrated doses.  A UV and/or IR lamps shining through port hole sight glasses in the tank top may do the trick.

Good luck,
Latexman

RE: Transparent Tank

Did you read my post to your previous thread?  

Forget about a transparent tank.  Analyze the situation and you may find that 99.999% of the usable fraction of the light may be absorbed by 1/8" thickness of glass or 1" of your product itself.  Putting it in a deep tank or one with a glass window in it would therefore be totally ineffective.

Forget about using sunlight also.  Guaranteed this process can be done more effectively using an efficient visible or  UV/vis lamp in a properly designed photoreactor 1/100,000th the size of your tank.  

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