Internal Vs External Floating Roof Tank

So far perfect designed internal floating roof tank is the best and the least investment method to control volatilization loss from the fixed roof tank.

Internal vs external floating roof tank.

Perfect designed internal floating roof storage tank is the best method to control the evaporation loss of the fixed roof tank. Compared with internal floating roof storage tank external floating roof tank has many advantages which is more and more widely used as well as a kind of storage tank with a promising future. That means internal floating roof tanks have two roofs one that floats over the liquid and another which covers the top of the tank. An external floating roof tank is a storage tank commonly used to store large quantities of petroleum products such as crude oil or condensate.

Brief introduction of internal floating roof storage tank. Compared with external floating roof tank internal floating roof storage tank has a fixed roof which is beneficial to improve the storage condition of oil products especially to prevent the rain water from entering the oil tank and slow down the aging of sealing ring. Compared with external floating roof tank internal floating roof tank is a promising tank with more advantages also its applications are wider and wider. The roof that floats over the liquid moves up and down as the level of fluid changes.

The outline structure of internal floating roof storage tank is roughly the same as that of dome oil tank.