Tank Farm Layout & Stress Analysis

Tank Layout & Piping is one of the important section in piping engineering. Oil & Gas industries have various types of tanks with different applications. All the Piping Engineers must know about the classifications and Types of tanks layouts along with various codes & standard clause.

Moreover, tanks will be storing huge volume of fluid which call for additional safety requirements, Hence various firefighting & NFPA requirements need to be referred and implemented.

What you’ll learn

1. Tank Layout & Piping

2. Codes & Standards : Clauses

3. API Standard Clauses

4. OISD Clauses

5. Classification & Types of Tanks

6. Layout Considerations

7. Road Layout

8. Dyke Wall Calculations

9. Composite Drawings

10. Accessibility Aspects

11. Safety Aspects

12. Firewater & Foam Piping Guidelines

13. NFPA Clauses

14. Overview of Tank Farms

15. Pictorial Views of Various Types of Tanks & Piping

12 major critical aspects related to tank design have been listed out and discussed in details. Various design related clauses from OISD have been captured and Dyke wall calculations are also explained along with various factors involved. All the basic steps have been described step by step so that the calculations can be understood and implemented for any tank farm layout.

Safety aspects related to fire fighting for fixed and floating roof tanks have been discussed in detailed. in the end various types of tanks have been discussed with the help of actual pictures s that the tank farm design can be visualized by piping engineers.

Stress Analysis of Tank Piping:

• Various Types of Piping

• Tank Settlement & Bulging

• Bulging & Settlement w.r.t. Analysis

• Actual Modelling in Caesar II

• Generating stress reports

• Stress Results and Reports

Who this course is for:

• For all Levels