Abstract:
A tanker ship construction equipped with low temperature liquefied gas tanks having membranous vessels for containing low temperature liquefied gases. The tank is mounted within a hold space prepared in the ship hull. The tank includes an outer box of a steel structure and a heat insulating layer. The outer box has side walls and a bottom adapted to be just strong enough to hold the whole shape thereof for the convenience of the construction and assembly, but not strong enough to support the inner pressure applied by the low temperature liquefied gases loaded in the membranous vessel. The box also has a roof adapted to form by itself a roof portion of the hull, whereby the construction of the tank as well as the assembling thereof into the hull is made substantially easier and the period of construction of the tanker ships is substantially shortened.
Abstract:
A storage container constructed either as a tank or a tanker for storage of low-temperature liquids such as liquefied gases. The container is constructed as an outer vessel with a thermal insulation lining and an inner membrane structure consisting of two thin metallic membrane tanks one interiorly of the other. The innermost tank or vessel is thinner than the other inner tank and maintains the fluid-tightness of the container. A vacuum pump applies a vacuum to the space between the two inner tanks to detect leaks and maintains the innermost vessel from collapsing in a non-loaded condition.
Abstract:
A method of hydraulically testing low temperature liquefied gas tanks of a membrane type, said tank comprising a rigid outer vessel, a heat insulating intermediate layer and an inner membranous vessel, wherein said inner membranous vessel is of an angular shape including substantially flat portions and curved edge and corner portions and is adapted to be smoothly supported by the inside surface of the heat insulating intermediate layer under contraction due to low temperature as well as expansion by internal pressure when the inner vessel is loaded with low temperature liquefied gases, though the inner vessel is formed as over-sized at atmospheric temperature than a space defined by the inside surface of the heat insulating layer in consideration of said contraction, the method being characterized by positively supporting said flat portions of the inner vessel in an expanded condition when the inner vessel is filled with water at atmospheric temperature so that no wrinkling due to margins for said contraction is formed at the time of hydraulic test executed at atmospheric temperaure.
Abstract:
A method of constructing a low temperature liquefied gas tank of a membrane type comprising an inner membranous vessel provided at the inside of a rigid outer vessel with interposition of a heat insulating layer, characterized by constructing an assembly including said inner membranous vessel and a carrying structure composed of a roof portion of said heat insulating layer, a roof portion of said outer vessel and a saddle frame for supporting bottom edge portions of said inner membranous vessel separately from said outer vessel having a hold space, mounting said assembly into said hold space, urging flat side wall portions of said inner membranous vessel toward the inside of the tank as much as to form a marginal slack corresponding to the contraction of said inner membranous vessel in a low temperature operating condition, and filling up the space left between said outer vessel and said inner membranous vessel with a compression resistant heat insulating material while keeping said inwardly urged condition of said inner membranous vessel, whereby the construction period of the tank is shortened and said inner membranous vessel is constructed so as to favorably fit the space defined by the inner surface of said heat insulating layer when it has contracted in a low temperature operating condition.
Abstract:
A tank of a low temperature liquefied gas tanker ship comprising a lower tank portion formed as a membranous vessel provided at the inside of a rigid hull with interposition of a compression resistant heat insulating layer and an upper tank portion having a rigid structure and fluid-tightly connected to an upper central portion of said lower tank portion, whereby the entire tank structure is favorably supported by the rigid upper tank portion being mounted to the deck of the ship, and because of a smaller horizontal cross-sectional area of the upper tank portion as compared with that of the lower tank portion, the free surface of the liquid loaded in the tank is reduced, especially when partition walls are provided in the upper tank portion, thereby improving the stability of the ship.
Abstract:
A method of constructing a low temperature liquefied gas tank of a membrane type comprising an inner membranous vessel provided at the inside of a rigid outer vessel with interposition of a heat insulating layer, characterized by the steps of constructing said inner membranous vessel in said outer vessel, urging flat side wall portions of said inner membranous vessel, after the completion thereof, toward the inside of said inner membranous vessel as much as to form a marginal slack corresponding to the contraction of said inner membranous vessel in a low temperature operating condition, and filling up the space left between said outer vessel and said inner membranous vessel with a compression resistant heat insulating material while keeping said inwardly urged condition of said inner membranous vessel, whereby said inner membranous vessel is constructed so as to favorably fit the space defined by the inner surface of said heat insulating layer when it has contracted in a low temperature operating condition.
Abstract:
A tanker for transporting low-temperature liquified gases having a tank structure therein constructed separately therefrom. The tank structure is disposed within the hold space and is constructed with a rigid exterior outer vessel having an inner membrane tank for storing low-temperature liquified gases. The inner tank is constructed as a flexible inner fluid-container vessel made of a thin metallic membrane. The tank structure is constructed independently of the ship itself and then is inserted into the ship structure or hold thereof.
Abstract:
A tank of membrane type for containing low temperature liquefied gases such as petroleum gases, comprising an outer vessel of a rigid structure, an inner vessel made of a membrane or thin sheet for containing low temperature liquefied gases, and a heat insulating intermediate layer disposed between the outer and inner vessels, wherein the improvement resides in that a secondary inner vessel made of a membrane or thin sheet is provided between the heat insulating intermediate layer and the first mentioned or primary inner vessel as a secondary barrier wall which prevents the liquefied gases which may leak out of the primary inner vessel due to breakage thereof from affecting the heat insulating intermediate layer and the outer vessel.