Foundation For Auxiliary Transformer With oil Tank Around it

[Messay Busha]

Can Anyone please help me figure out how to make the oil tank around the auxiliary transformer foundation. how to connect with the pedestal and how deep it should be? can you please show me in sample section drawing?

 

[Lomarandil]

there's a sketch of one way to build it here:

Connection between oil containment slab and transformer foundation - Foundation engineering

Hello, I am designing a transformer foundation with concrete oil-containment pit around. Usually I design the transformer pad and the slab separately and show only a waterstop in between. The transformer pad is 4ft thick and the slab is 8" thk. After the drawings were reviewed by the client...

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Although I've typically seen it as a monolithic foundation (in two pours). First, a flat slab is poured which will be the base of the containment and the pedestal. Later, the contractor adds forms for the containment walls and pedestal, and places that concrete above.

 

[dik]

I've done half a dozen containment structures using Sorbweb which allows water to pass, but prevents transformer oil to pass. It's been the most cost effective manner of addressing transformer oil leaks.