Method for heating and dispensing asphalt in an aboveground asphalt storage facility

The method of heating and dispensing bitumen in the above-ground bitumen storage and bitumen terminal is that bitumen is heated in the storage tank in a casing installed in it with the intake-drain pipe. Bitumen is heated to a temperature of in-plant transportation at least 80° C.

• wherein in the main storage tank volume outside the housing with the intake- drain pipe bitumen is heated and maintained by heaters and heated at a temperature not lower than the flow temperature 60° C.
• wherein in this case the bitumen supply from the volume under the storage tank shell with the intake and drain pipe in the main volume of the working tank is carried out as the bitumen is dispensed from the working tank
• wherein heating of bitumen in the working tank is carried out in a casing installed in it with the intake and drain pipe
• wherein heating to a working temperature of not less than 140° C. Heating with subsequent release to an external transport or in the technological process wherein in the main volume of the working tank, outside the housing preferably comprising the suction and drainage pipe, bitumen is heated to a temperature not lower than 80° C. for in-plant transportation of bitumen
• wherein Bitumen heating is maintained by heaters and bitumen in the storage tank is also heated and supported by heaters throughout the storage tank wherein bitumen is transported at a temperature not lower than 80° C. and bitumen is also fed into the main volume of the working tank. Bitumen is fed as used bitumen from the working tank
• wherein heating is maintained by heaters and bitumen in the working tank is also heated under the housing with the suction and drainage pipe and heating is carried out to a working temperature of not less than 140° C. wherein heating is conducted with subsequent release on an external transport or in the technological process and wherein in the main volume of the working tank, outside the housing with the suction and drainage pipe, bitumen is heated and maintained by heaters. This takes place at a temperature of in-plant transportation of bitumen not lower than 80° C.