API standard 650 flat-bottom oil storage tanks maximum longitudinal shell-membrane compression stress

Our quality control department will do inspection for details of the steel materials API standard 650 flat-bottom oil storage tanks before delivery. We would invite the customer side to attend the inspection together. If they can not come, we will also take rich pictures for them to check. Meanwhile, we will publish inspection report and send them the PDF version. Besides, we accept any third party inspection such as SGS, BV, etc. And our quality control department will support the third party to inspect the steel materials smoothly and try our best to deliver the qualified steel materials to customers earlier.

The construction period comparison of mechanical cleaning and manual cleaning for vertical storage tank, API standard 650 flat-bottom oil storage tanks. The API standard 650 flat-bottom oil storage tanks mechanical cleaning period is short, and the construction period is not affected by the size of the storage tank and the amount of sludge in the tank, and the cleaning equipment operates 24 hours a day. The manual cleaning of the API standard 650 flat-bottom oil storage tanks has a long construction period, which is easily affected by the external environment, and the number of workers is limited by the size of the storage tank and the amount of sludge.

The thickness of the API standard 650 flat-bottom oil storage tanks annular bottom plates shall be in accordance with Table Q-4 (for steel or aluminum, as applicable). The thicknesses shown are minimums. The ring of annual plates shall have a circular outside circumference, but it may have a regular polygonal shape inside the tank shell with the number of sides equal to the number of annular plates. These pieces shall be butt-welded in accordance with Q.7.1.1, Item b. The plates of the first shell course shall be attached to the annular bottom plates by a weld as required by API 620 oil tank 5.9.5 except when a full-penetration weld is used or required (see Q.7.1.1). Butt-welds in annular plates shall be not closer than 12 in. from any vertical weld.