Design and Development of a 10 Million Liters Capacity Petroleum Product Storage Tank (original) (raw)

In Nigeria, the demand for petroleum products are on the increase and the need for reliable and safe storage facilities is on increasing demand.This has called for indigenous design and development of these facilities to augment the existing ones, and hence, to conserve foreign exchange and enhance job creation. In this work attempt has been made to designastorage tankcapable of holding a 10 million liter of DPK, PMS and AGO.Appropriate design codes and standard are applied, an adequate design method is chosen, and material selection was donein consonance with the requirements of the recent editions of API 650 and IS 803. Design specificationsand Sketches of the storage tank are presented. Fabrication and erection procedures, examination, inspection and maintenance routine for the tank are given.It was found that, the nominal diameter is 42m without space constraint, height is 7.2 m, number of course is 4, and height of each course is 1.8m. Also, the thickness of each course of tank shell is in the order of 14mm, 12mm, 10mm and 8mm from bottom. The bottom and annular plate thickness are 10mm and 12mm respectively. Carbon steel A36 material was selected for the design. The overall weight of the tank is 541,747.10kg, which is found to be stable without anchorage.