Vacuum collapse of vented tanks

✍ Scribed by Noel De Nevers

• Book ID: 105358777
• Publisher: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 554 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1066-8527
• DOI: 10.1002/prs.680150205

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Process tanks and vessels can withstand internal pressures much larger than the vacuums needed to collapse them. Such tanks and vessels are often collapsed when they are emptied without proper venting, or when their vents are obstructed. It is also possible to collapse a vented tank, if it is filled with steam and cooled rapidly.