Water tank is used extensively for storing water, inflammable liquids and other chemicals. Generally, to provide water at large, tank is supported on frame or shaft (a vertical cylindrical shell). The staging with a single row of columns placed straight (vertical) along the periphery of circle or shaft, are generally adopted for elevated water tanks to support the tank container. Apart from ver...

The scale of the global chemical industry is enormous: in 2003, the total value of global production exceeded US$1.7 trillion. International logistics is especially crucial to the high-value chemicals industry, since raw materials sources, production facilities, and consumer markets are distributed globally. Fluctuating demand, imbalanced trade flows, and expensive transportation equipment nece...

In industry, liquids such as water and chemicals are used in various processes. The amount of such liquids stored can be found by measuring level of the liquid in a container or tank. The level affects not only the quantity delivered but also pressure and rate of flow in and out of the container. Often the tanks are so coupled together that the levels interact and exhibits a nonlinear behaviour...

A project of an expedition towards planet Venus, which is carried out in two stages, is considered. At the first stage, a space train, consisting of a locomotive and a tank with working substance, delivers onto Venus orbit the landing capsule with the Venus plane and the Venus rover, as well as the tank-container with liquid hydrogen, which is used subsequently for return of the expedition onto...

The publication presents the results of research into strength an improved tank container. tare a container can be reduced through application composite material for tank. In this case its mass 46% lower than that metal was calculated by computer simulation. maximum stress occurs in part and is about 295 MPa.

Logistics is the glue that binds the entities of a supply chain. More and more businesses have now realized that its effectiveness is critical to the superior performance of the supply chain. For instance, the move towards just in time and agile manufacturing has tremendously increased the impact of the logistics decisions. This is especially true for the chemical industry with its globally dis...

This paper presented a genetic algorithm (GA) to solve the container storage problem in the port. This problem is studied with different container types such as regular, open side, open top, tank, empty and refrigerated containers. The objective of this problem is to determine an optimal containers arrangement, which respects customers’ delivery deadlines, reduces the re-handle operations of co...

Aiming at the impact process of a fuel tank, which is transient energy conversion process, material absorbs through deformation to analyze mechanical properties tank during process. The defense node method adopted simulate dynamic response impact. results show that it can accurately evaluate safety container.

This paper presents an adaptation of the harmony search algorithm to solve the storage allocation problem for inbound and outbound containers. This problem is studied considering multiple container type (regular, open side, open top, tank, empty and refrigerated) which lets the situation more complicated, as various storage constraints appeared. The objective is to find an optimal container arr...

Traditionally the resistance of ships has been determined using towing tank experiments. Over the past two decades increased computational power has allowed numerical approaches to replicate and potentially start to replace towing tank experiments. This work investigates the quality of results that can be achieved using a commercial Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) flow solver, ANSYS CFX ...