Transparent Tank
Transparent Tank
(OP)
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
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Transparent Tank
Steve Braune
Tank Industry Consultants
www.tankindustry.com
RE: Transparent Tank
Good luck,
Latexman
RE: Transparent Tank
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.