| 摘要 |
<p>The invention rotates to tanks forthe storage of tiquid and has particular application to the land storage of liquefied gas at low temperature at or above atmospheric pressure.</p><p>An object of the invention is to provide a lobed storage tank based on those described in U.K. Patent Specification No. 1 522 609 and U.K. Patent Application No. 37247/76, which is particularly suitable for land storage.</p><p>Thus, the invention provides a storage tank of the kind in which the walls are formed by a multiplicity of connected, parallel, part-cylindrical lobes presenting outwardly convex arcuate surfaces, which is characterised in that the side and end walls thereof are provided by a single tier of connected lobes, in that said lobes extend in one common direction over the tank, in that the end walls of the tank comprise part-spherical knuckles closing off the ends of the part-cylindrical lobes, and in that a separating plate is provided at each lobe connection to strengthen the tank against internal pressure and to divide it into separate storage compartments.</p> |
