Storage tank safety
Storage tank safety
(OP)
What is typically installed on fiberglass storage tanks to prevent surges in backpressure during chemical tank loading using air loading practices for tanker trucks. These trucks utilize compressed air to transfer liquid volume from tanker to storage vessels. The fiberglass storage tanks are atmospheric and cannot hold any pressure.





RE: Storage tank safety
If the tank is vented to atmosphere, wouldn't that mean any pressure surges will be automatically dealt with by the liquid in the tank increasing in volume and expelling air through the vents. Of course, that requires the vents to be of adequate size to handle the outrush of air.
John.
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Morten
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Rupture or opening pressue would need to be set to the lowest/maximum allowable pressure in the system or its components.
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B. Either eliminate the use of high-pressure air for liquid transfer; or purchase a tank that can withstand the maximum operating pressure for the compressed air.
C. A distant alrternative to the above solutions is to provided enough free and iopen vents to safely disperse the air without a sufficient pressure build-up to violate its API design basis.
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What is the process liquid transfered and is the tank elevated high above the delivery truck ?
I am guessing that it is Sulfuric acid ?
Concentrated H2SO4 has a fairly high SG and the supplier may require a somewhat higher pressure to deliver based on the geometry of your plant layout......
Details please ???!!!??!!??
MJC
RE: Storage tank safety
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Install a properly sized pressure relief vent to handle the outflow resulting from the compressed air from the tank truck. Since this is a frequent operation, I like the idea of CHD01's of eliminating the problem by changing the process. A progressive cavitating pump perhaps?
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OK you got me. What is a progressive cavitating pump?
Sam01:
1. If you are using a dessicant dryer to prevent moisture entering tank why are you using air to transfer - think of all the moisture in the air! All this mositure is going to wet your dessicant in the dryer cartidge and then it won't remove mositure from entering the dryer due to thermal vacuum. You really need to re-dsign your system.
2. Instead of a relief valve why not install a weighted or spring loaded pallet - a 24 inch vent set at something like 24 INWC (depending on MAWP of vessel) would relieve a lot of the flow.
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They are used commonly on slurry streams but they should also be a good application for a high viscosity stream like this, depending what the OP means by 'highly viscous'.
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Sam01: Why do you vent through the dessicant dryer at all; are you not more concerned about water coming INTO the tank? Also I just noticed the dryer is rated at 2 INWC; you can still get a vent with weighted pallet to relieve at this setting. If you had another vent then you cold blank off the dryer when unloading to the tank.
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I would reccomend this process instead of compresed air transfer.
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