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Pressure vessel storage tank insulated heated 5K gal
This is a 5000 Gallon Pressure tank that is electrically heated and insulated, in good working condition, and cost about $50,000.00. It's been cleaned and drained and is 9 years old but was only used for two years. There's a pump and electrical system that goes with it - the electrical system works fine but the pump may or may not work.
It was manufactured and installed by the Pittsburgh Tank Corporation and I have the schematics and drawings attached of the exact unit. They are all in PDF, you can right click and "Save As", or jut click and open them. Use Adobe Reader or the free Foxit Reader
Schematic 1 Schematic 2 Schematic 3 Schematic 4
Measurement: Please view schematics, it's a 5,000 gallon tank.
If you have any questions, please contact us and we'll gladly provide additional data. This tank is located not far from my shop in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh Tank Corporation strives to manufacture high quality pressure vessels.
Pittsburgh Tank's pressure vessels are carefully designed and engineered using the latest computer-aided design programs.
Pittsburgh Tank Corporation has a Certification of Authorization from the ASME to "U" stamp code constructed Unfired Pressure Vessels and is authorized to register these vessels with the National Board of Pressure Vessel Inspectors.
Pittsburgh Tank also holds an "R" stamp. This allows Pittsburgh Tank to repair and alter unfired pressure vessels and to register those vessels with the National Board of Pressure Vessel Inspectors.
A storage tank is a container, usually for holding liquids, sometimes for compressed gases (gas tank). The term can be used for reservoirs (artificial lakes and ponds), and for manufactured containers. The usage of the word tank for reservoirs is common or universal in Indian English, American English and moderately common in British English. In other countries, the term tends to refer only to artificial containers.
In the USA, storage tanks operate under no (or very little) pressure, distinguishing them from pressure vessels. Storage tanks are often cylindrical in shape, perpendicular to the ground with flat bottoms, and a fixed or floating roof. There are usually many environmental regulations applied to the design and operation of storage tanks, often depending on the nature of the fluid contained within. Above ground storage tanks (AST) differ from underground (UST) storage tanks in the kinds of regulations that are applied.
Reservoirs can be covered, in which case they may be called covered or underground storage tanks or reservoirs. Covered water tanks are common in urban areas.
A large storage tank is sometimes mounted on a lorry or on an articulated lorry trailer, which is then called a tanker.
In the case of a liquefied gas such as hydrogen or chlorine, or a compressed gas such as compressed natural gas or MAPP, the storage tank must be made to withstand the sometimes immense pressures exerted by the contents. These tanks may be called cylinders and, being pressure vessels, are sometimes excluded from the class of "tanks".
A pressure vessel is a closed container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure different from the ambient pressure.
The pressure differential is potentially dangerous and many fatal accidents have occurred in the history of their development and operation. Consequently, their design, manufacture, and operation are regulated by engineering authorities backed up by laws. For these reasons, the definition of a pressure vessel varies from country to country, but involves parameters such as maximum safe operating pressure and temperature.
Pressure vessels may theoretically be almost any shape, but shapes made of sections of spheres, cylinders, and cones are usually employed. A common design is a cylinder with hemispherical end caps called heads. More complicated shapes have historically been much harder to analyze for safe operation and are usually far more difficult to construct.
Theoretically, a sphere would be the optimal shape of a pressure vessel. Unfortunately, a spherical shape is difficult to manufacture, therefore more expensive, so most pressure vessels are cylindrical with 2:1 semi-elliptical heads or end caps on each end. Smaller pressure vessels are assembled from a pipe and two covers. A disadvantage of these vessels is that larger diameters make them relatively more expensive, so that for example the most economic shape of a 1,000 litres (35 cu ft), 250 bars (3,600 psi) pressure vessel might be a diameter of 914.4 millimetres (36 in) and a length of 1,701.8 millimetres (67 in) including the 2:1 semi-elliptical domed end caps.
Generally, almost any material with good tensile properties that is chemically stable in the chosen application can be employed.
Many pressure vessels are made of steel. To manufacture a spherical pressure vessel, forged parts would have to be welded together. Some mechanical properties of steel are increased by forging, but welding can sometimes reduce these desirable properties. In case of welding, in order to make the pressure vessel meet international safety standards, carefully selected steel with a high impact resistance & corrosion resistant material should also be used.
Some pressure vessels are made of wound carbon fibre held in place with a polymer. Due to the very high tensile strength of carbon fibre these vessels can be very light, but are much trickier to manufacture.
Other very common materials include polymers such as PET in carbonated beverage containers and copper in plumbing.
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