Types of external floating roof consist of.
Double deck external floating roof tank.
The low single deck is the more efficient of the two for 30 to 170 foot diameter tanks.
It consists of an open topped cylindrical steel shell equipped with a roof that floats on the surface of the stored liquid.
Single deck pontoon type figure 1 4 double deck figure 1 5 special buoy and radially reinforced roofs floating roof tank will be further discussed in details in later chapter.
External floating roof tank double deck type an external floating roof tank is a storage tank commonly used to store large quantities of petroleum products such as crude oil or condensate.
External floating roofis where the roof floats on the product in an open tank and the roof is open to atmosphere.
Storagetech storage tank internal floating roofs storagetech has been proudly innovating designing manufactiring and installing external and internal pon.
The sketches shown illustrate the above single deck and double deck floating roof with the critical components for these structures.
The structural form of external floating roof is similar to internal floating roof both of them have a steel tray form floating cabin form single deck floating roof or double deck floating roof even external floating roof with aluminum alloy sandwich structure.