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;
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- a containment vessel supported on the base frame so as to fully surround the storage vessel so as to be arranged to contain any hydrocarbon fluids leaking from the storage vessel;
- the storage vessel being fully received with a boundary of the containment vessel so as to define a containment space that is enclosed between a boundary of the storage vessel and the boundary of the containment vessel;
- the boundary of the storage vessel being uninsulated such that heat can readily migrate from hydrocarbon fluids contained in the storage vessel into the enclosed containment space;
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- the boundary of the containment vessel being heat insulated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.