Vertical steel welded tanks
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The tanks are used to store crude oil, fuel oil, diesel fuel, kerosene, bitumen, tar, various oils (including edible), water and other products in a liquid state.
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Such tanks are often used for storage of crude oil, gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel. The pontoon is a rigid, gas-tight floating disk-shaped covering placed on the product mirror inside the cylindrical tank so that at least 90% of its area is covered.
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The vertical tanks of such design are used at production sites where it is impossible to provide secondary containment for a tank farm. Such double wall cylindrical tanks are built in ecologically sensitive areas, for example, near water basins and residential settlements, to ensure environmental and human health safety.
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The design of the tank assumes the use of a roof located on the surface of the stored product with full contact.