STRUCTURE, FUEL OIL TANK, VESSEL, AND MARINE STRUCTURE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize a heating device by avoiding a heat radiation loss due to the heating of a fuel oil of unnecessarily large capacity and preclude denaturation of the cargo in transit with heat as the greater part of oil in a storage tank remains unheated. SOLUTION: A small division 20 is partitioned inside a fuel oil storage tank 5 in a hull 1, and only inside the small division, the heating device 10 is installed. The facade wall 5a as the oil storage tank 5 serves also as the backmost wall of a ship hold 7, but the forefront wall of the small division 20 is positioned apart backward from the ahead wall 5a of the storage tank 5, so that fuel oil with the temperature remaining not raised in a large division 23 exists in the area with respect to the hold 7. Accordingly even if the fuel oil is heated in the small division 20 to a temperature to suit transportation, no phenomenon is generated such that the heated fuel oil makes convection in the whole area of the storage tank 5, and only the temperature of the fuel oil existing in the small division 20 will rise. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT