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  1. jrmc

    Shell banding in weld to bottom

    Hello, in a repair of a tank the shell suffer a distortion in the connection to the bottom anular plate. the distortion is 360º , 9 to 13 mm (1/2") to the inside. I cannot find anything specific to this in API 653, to reference. most similar is banding between shell limit to 13 mm (1/2") in...
  2. jrmc

    Questions about floating roof and N2 blanketing

    Hello, If i want to build/reconstruc a tank to operate with hydrocarbons i need to know if i need to install: 1) External floating roof, internal floating roof with conic roof, or simply a conic roof. We should choose in function of the need to reduce emissions There is any code that can guide...
  3. jrmc

    Sour water feed drum

    s reading a ealier thread483-271182 about sour water feed tank and studing this question and i dont understod if: putting a floating roof+fixed roof shall keep the layer of diesel? anyone send this to the amine with results? anyone think to use API 620 instead od API 650 to design the tank with...
  4. jrmc

    Seal material

    Hello, because of leaks in emergency vent´s we are thinking of change the seal material from Teflon to Viton. The Viton allows better seal, but i think it can have the problem of stick Anyone with similar problem?
  5. jrmc

    adding N2 blanket to tank

    Hello we have some tanks that dont have N2 blanket, so i want to install them. But the tank are not anchor, if it´s still possible to install the N2? i now with the calculations of API 650 the availble pressure to install is so smal that maybee it will not be possible/useful. does any one...
  6. jrmc

    Connecting tank to flare

    Hello in my company we are thinking to connect some tanks to flare. the inbreath will be N2 and the out breath to the flare with a check valve to avoid the return. simple!! but unfortanely the N2 blankting can fail and O2 can enter the tank, and then during the out breathing we will putt O2...

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