Abstract:
A PRESSURE TANK FOR STORING AT LEAST PARTIALLY LIQUID FLUID COMPRISING AN OUTER CASING OF SELF-SUPPORTING STRUCTURE, AN INNER IMPERVIOUS, METALLIC, THIN-WALLED, FLUID-CONFINING, MEMBRANE-LIKE ENVELOPE CARRIED BY HEAT-INSULATING MATERIALS FILLING THE INTERMEDIATE SPACE LEFT BETWEEN SAID ENVELOPE AND CASING, AND OPEN-ENDED DUCT MEANS EXTENDING THROUGHT THE ENVELOPE WALL FOR PERMANENTLY INTERCONNECTING SAID INTERMEDIATE SPACE AND THAT PORTION OF THE
SPACE INSIDE SAID ENVELOPE WHICH CONTAINS THE FLUID GASEOUS PHASE FOR EQUALIZING THE PRESSURES THEREIN APPLIED TO BOTH OPPOSITE WALL SIDES OF SAID ENVELOPE TO TRANSFER THE GASEOUS FLUID PRESSURE DIRECTLY TO SAID CASING.
Abstract:
1,187,304. Tanks in ships. TECHNIGAZ. 18 May, 1967 [20 May, 1966], No. 23061/67. Headings B7A and B7S. [Also in Division F4] A generally rectangular liquefied gas storage container comprises an inner liquid-containing tank formed of primary and secondary barrier walls 17, 16 of Fig. 2 of thin flexible corrugated metal surrounded by heat insulation material e.g. foamed polyurethane (not shown) and which is itself surrounded by a rigid supporting wall structure, e.g. a ship's hull 1, and the spaced adjacent edges 2 1 , 2 of the inner tank and support structure, and referred to as corners are connected together by longitudinally spaced cleats 5, Fig. 3, of heat insulating material e.g. wood bolted at 6, 7 to the hull and at 8, 9 to a flange 10 of a pair of nested inner and outer angle plates 3a, 3b to which are secured the primary and secondary barriers 17, 15. Stiffening members 13 secured by brackets 14 to either side of each cleat 5 extend between the hull 1 and the plate 3b. The gap between successive angle plates 3b is covered by an angle piece 20 of the same material as the secondary barrier 16 whilst the gap between successive plates 3a is covered by pieces 25 of the primary barrier 17. Each corner (53 1 ), Fig. 9 (not shown), formed by the intersection of three walls of the tank is also connected to the adjacent corner (53) of the hull by three spaced cleats (56a, 56b, 56c) straddling the three dihedral angles and bolted to a trihedral angular element (54) formed of nested inner and outer corner plates (54a, 54b).
Abstract:
A storage tank containing a fluid, the liquefaction temperature of which is lower than −50° C. under atmospheric pressure and having a cylindrical shape around an axis of revolution, the storage tank includes at least one thermal insulation barrier covered with a sealed and corrugated membrane which is made of a plurality of corrugations. These corrugations delimit a space between the corrugations and at least one thermal insulation barrier. The storage tank includes at least one system injecting gas into the space, the gas injection system including at least one circular pipe spreading around the axis of revolution of the storage tank and a nozzle linked to the circular pipe.
Abstract:
A power supply and cooling system for a floating structure having a tank, includes a supply circuit having at least one compression device, the supply circuit being configured to supply gas to a gas-consuming device, and a cooling circuit having a heat exchanger configured to participate in managing the internal pressure of the tank, the cooling circuit being connected to the supply circuit on either side of the compression device. The compression device includes two compression stages, and the power supply and cooling system includes a control device configured to connect the compression stages in series or in parallel.
Abstract:
A sealed and thermally insulating tank has a bottom wall and a ceiling wall where at least a first pipe and a second pipe pass through the ceiling wall. The tank is equipped with a support foot that passes through the bottom wall that is fastened to the load-bearing structure with a guide device that is fastened to the support foot. The guide device is configured to guide the first pipe and second pipe in translation in the vertical direction where the guide device has a first collar disposed around the entirety of the first pipe and a second collar is disposed around the entirety of the second pipe. A support plate is fastened to the support foot. A first linking arm links the first collar to the support plate. A second linking arm links the second collar to the support plate.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a sealed and thermally insulating tank wall comprising a thermally insulating barrier defining a support surface for a sealing membrane, the thermally insulating barrier comprising two adjacent insulating panels jointly delimiting an inter-panel space, the tank wall further comprising an insulating insert arranged in the inter-panel space so as to fill the inter-panel space, the insulating insert comprising an insulating core at least partially covered by a wrapper, the insulating core comprising layered glass wool, the layered glass wool comprising laps of fibers superposed in a direction of layering, the insulating insert being arranged in the inter-panel space in such a way that the direction of layering of the layered glass wool is parallel to a widthwise direction of the inter-panel space.