In Chemical plants, storage tanks, sphere and bullets are ubiquitous.

Any Chemical, Petrochemical, Refinery, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical facility and for that matter any facility burning fuel or treating waste water will have tanks. It may have either sphere or bullet depending on whether LPG, Propane or Ammonia is processed.

Since it is commonly present, the knowledge of selecting, sizing and specifying tanks, sphere and bullet is taken for granted. However, this is not the case.

When I started work in the petrochemical Industry about 30+ years back in a Tank farm being constructed, there were no manuals, books or procedures. There was no access to any standards. None of the experienced seniors were willing to teach, coach or mentor. When I moved a EPC firm, the same problem continued.

Now, we are in a different era. Every information is available at our fingertips. But the students suffer from excess information which brings in a lack of focus.

This course aims to equip the students to with sufficient knowledge to be able to select, size, specify and review process design with confidence. The aim is to set the students on the path to gain excellence in the subject. 

(Update August 2022)The course has lectures, examples and activities to help the students to understand and apply the concepts.

Currently, there are 16 examples , 6 activities, quizzes and worked out assignments for  ensuring hands on skill development.

(Update July 2022): The examples cover Tank  Selection and Sizing  for Acetic Acid , Acetone, Paraxylene, Toluene, High Speed Diesel, MEG, TEG and Gasoline service.

(Update August 2022): Further an activity based lecture system has been introduced.  With this, the student has the opportunity to breakdown the existing tank engineering information as per the course structure to make sense how the process of Tank Selection, Sizing and Specification taught in this course  can be put into practice. For those students who have no access to any tank database, a sample tank engineering information is provided in the lesson. The student can use this sample tank engineering data to analyze and progress the activity.

(Update June 2023): Started adding LNG tankage requirements. As a first step, type of tankages to store LNG discussed. To add more in few days to come.

WHAT THE COURSE IS NOT ABOUT

This course is NOT about  Design, Fabrication, Inspection, Installation or Detailed Engineering of chemical storage and   its associated piping, instruments and electrical items.
However, points can be discussed in the Q & A section.