Water circulation in storage tanks significantly impacts water quality distribution networks since old tends to have low residual chlorine concentrations that are insufficient neutralize microbial regeneration. Their large capacity and long residence times result uneven mixing, which can accelerate the disinfectant decay formation of potentially carcinogenic disinfection by-products. The phenom...

The sloshing phenomenon is an important field of fluid dynamics in liquid storage tanks under earthquake excitation. When the frequency gets close to tank’s natural frequency, resulting resonance could lead instability and even damage structures, followed by catastrophic economic losses environmental damages. As passive control devices, baffles are a place for energy dissipation. This study use...

Introduction: In process industries, some of the primary events may result in secondary events in an industrial unit called the domino effect. Since refinery storage tanks are always at risk of fire and explosion, quantitative risk assessment is important in determining the severity and outcome of an accident, taking into account the effects of dominoes on the main industry, neighbors, and soci...

The buckling of aboveground circular steel tanks with conical roof is considered in this paper. The specific source of loads investigated is wind action during hurricane storms in the Caribbean islands. The structure is modeled using a finite element discretization with the computer package ALGOR. Bifurcation buckling of the shell is computed for a given static wind pressure distribution. Then ...

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Many researchers have investigated how to increase the overall efficiency of solar-driven thermal systems. Several key parameters, such as collector efficiency and storage tank characteristics, may impose some constraints on the annual solar fraction (ASF) of such systems. In this paper, the behaviour of integrating the phase change material (PCM) in SDHW systems is modelled and optimized n...

Pumped Thermal Energy Storage (PTES) is an increasingly attractive area of research due to its multidimensional advantages over other grid scale electricity storage technologies. This paper built a model and numerically studied the performance Argon based Brayton type PTES system. The was used optimise total work output round-trip efficiency aspect ratio thermal tanks operation packed bed segme...

The behavior of a rainwater harvesting system depends on some variables that cannot be controlled, such as rainfall, building roof size and water consumption. selection regarding tank-size will affect the performance cost–benefit ratio. criterion employed for this is based need volume-storage typically, yield large-sized tanks, especially when amount higher during rainy seasons. This article pr...

Temperature distribution is a critical indicator of the health condition for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) storage tanks. In this paper, we present a large-scale wireless temperature monitoring system to evaluate the safety of LPG storage tanks. The system includes wireless sensors networks, high temperature fiber-optic sensors, and monitoring software. Finally, a case study on real-world LPG s...