Hydrocarbon storage vessel with integral containment
Assignee2376016 Alberta Inc.
InventorTylan Thiessen
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Abstract
A hydrocarbon fluid storage structure has a storage vessel containing hydrocarbon fluids therein and a containment vessel fully surrounding the storage vessel so as to provide secondary containment to the storage vessel. A heater is surrounded by heat exchanger fluid within a heat exchanger vessel within the storage vessel. The exterior of the containment vessel is insulated. The heat exchanger fluid is passively circulated within a closed loop path defined by the heat exchanger vessel. Connecting valves providing external access to the contents of the storage vessel are received within a valve housing in heat exchanging relation with a containment space between the containment vessel and the storage vessel.
Claims10
A hydrocarbon fluid storage structure for storing hydrocarbon fluids therein, the structure comprising:
- a base frame;
- a storage vessel supported on the base frame so as to be arranged to contain hydrocarbon fluids therein;
- a heater in communication with the storage vessel so as to be arranged to heat the hydrocarbon fluids in the storage vessel;
- and
- a containment vessel supported on the base frame so as to fully surround the storage vessel;
- the storage vessel being fully received with a boundary of the containment vessel;
- a containment space that is fully enclosed between a boundary of the storage vessel and the boundary of the containment vessel such that the containment space is arranged to contain fluid therein;
- wherein the boundary of the storage vessel is uninsulated such that the containment space is arranged to be heated by heat migrating from hydrocarbon fluids contained in the storage vessel into the containment space;
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- wherein the boundary of the containment vessel is heat insulated so as to be arranged to contain heat within the containment space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.