Hazardous material storage facility with sloped floors and method of construction
OwnerFrederick W. Romiginventor
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Abstract
A metal hazardous material storage facility where the floor is divided into an upper floor, having passages therethrough, and a lower floor, located below said upper floor and which has a sloped surface. A sensor, which is coupled to a leak detection system is located at the lowest point on the lower floor. Containers of hazardous material are stored on the upper floor. As such, regardless of where the container is stored in the facility, any fluid which leaks from a container will pass through the openings in the upper floor and flow down the sloped surface of the lower floor to the sensor.
Claims39
A metal hazardous material storage facility for storing containers having hazardous material therein, said facility comprising a metal upper floor having passages therethrough and a lower floor disposed below said upper floor having a sloped surface, said lower floor is supported by a plurality of support members which includes C-shaped beams each having at least one inverted L-shaped beam attached thereto.
A metal hazardous material storage facility for storing containers having hazardous material therein, said facility comprising
- an upper floor having passages therethrough and a lower floor disposed below said upper floor having a sloped surface;
- wherein said lower floor includes at least one channel disposed at a lower end of said sloped surface;
- wherein a sensor is disposed in said channel;
- wherein said facility is about seventy-two feet long;
- a drain adjacent to said sensor, said drain coupled to a storage tank;
- and
- wherein said channel is a V-shaped channel.
A metal hazardous material storage facility for storing containers having hazardous material therein, said facility comprising
- an upper floor having passages therethrough and a lower floor disposed below said upper floor having a sloped surface;
- wherein said lower floor includes at least one channel disposed at a lower end of said sloped surface;
- wherein said lower floor includes at least one channel disposed at a lower end of said sloped surface;
- wherein a sensor is disposed in said channel;
- a drain adjacent to said sensor, said drain coupled to a storage tank;
- wherein said facility is about seventy-two feet long;
- and
- wherein said sloped floor has an upper end and a lower end, said upper end being at least one inch higher than said lower end.
A metal hazardous material storage facility for storing containers having hazardous material therein, said facility comprising:
- an upper floor having passages therethrough and a lower floor disposed upper floor having a sloped surface;
- wherein said lower floor has at least two sloped portions;
- wherein said lower floor includes at least one channel disposed at said lower end of each said sloped surface;
- wherein said channel includes a sloped bottom surface;
- wherein said channel bottom surface slope is generally perpendicular to each said lower floor sloped surface;
- wherein a sensor is disposed within said channel;
- wherein said at least one channel is disposed between said sloped floor portions at the lower end of each sloped floor portion;
- wherein said sensor is a float sensor;
- and
- wherein said channel is a V-shaped channel.
A method of constructing a metal hazardous material storage facility for storing containers containing hazardous material comprising:
- providing support members having an angled upper surface;
- mounting a lower floor on said support members so that said lower floor has a sloped surface;
- and
- providing an upper floor having passages above said lower floor.
A method of constructing a sloped floor for a hazardous material storage facility comprising the steps:
- providing a foundation;
- providing support members having an inverted L-shaped beam attached to a C-shaped beam, said L-shaped beam having a long member with a tip, and a short member joined generally perpendicularly, and said C-beam having a top member, said L-shaped beam attached by said tip to one end of said C-shaped beam and attached adjacent to said short member to a second end of said C-shaped beam;
- placing a plurality of said support members on said foundation;
- providing a planar member disposed on said support members creating a sloped floor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.