The American Petroleum Institute (API) 12F is the specification for vertical, aboveground shop-welded storage tanks published by the API. The nominal capacity for the twelve tank designs given in the current 13th edition of API 12F ranges from 90…
By means of additional specific heat capacity and momentum source terms methods, the heat transfer characteristic of waxy crude oil during the gelatinization process in the floating roof tank is investigated by numerical simulation. A new kind of…
The importance of asset integrity assurance of strategical equipment such as crude oil storage tanks (COS Tanks) is attributed to the possible impact on operation interruption, safety hazards, and cost of maintenance. This paper studies how the…
In large crude oil tank farm, fire is a major primary event in domino effects according to past accidents. The quantitative risk assessment of domino fire accident is a key issue for the accident prevention of large storage tank farm. The most widely…
Single and double-plate floating roof oil tanks are two types of widely used floating roof oil tanks in petrochemical industry. However, the differences in flow and hear transfer characteristics of waxy crude oil inside these two tanks have been…