Tank assembly
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsPetter Sjungargård, Alessio Cipullo, Franklin Tichborne, Joseph K-W Lam
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Abstract
A tank assembly with a tank for storing liquid hydrocarbon, the tank having a floor for supporting a weight of the liquid hydrocarbon. A filter is fitted to the floor of the tank. The filter is arranged to allow liquid water in the tank to drain out of the tank through the filter but substantially prevent the liquid hydrocarbon in the tank from doing so. The filter has a permeation member, such as a membrane, which is formed from a material such as graphene oxide which allows liquid water in the tank to drain out of the tank by permeating through the permeation member but substantially prevent the liquid hydrocarbon in the tank from doing so.
Claims19
A tank assembly comprising a tank for storing liquid hydrocarbon, the tank having a floor for supporting a weight of the liquid hydrocarbon;
- and a filter fitted to the floor of the tank, the filter comprising a permeation member which is formed from a material which allows liquid water in the tank to drain out of the tank through the permeation member but substantially prevents the liquid hydrocarbon in the tank from doing so.
A method of draining water from a tank storing liquid hydrocarbon, the tank having a floor for supporting a weight of the liquid hydrocarbon, the method comprising fitting a filter in the floor of the tank, the filter comprising a permeation member which is formed from a material which allows liquid water in the tank to drain out of the tank through the permeation member but substantially prevents the liquid hydrocarbon in the tank from doing so.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.