Morteza Saadat Targhi
West Indies
Research Article
Effect of Rim Seal on Evaporation Loss from Khark Island Storage Tanks
Author(s): Mahmood Farzaneh Gord, Amin Nabati, Morteza Saadat Targhi and Alireza RasekhMahmood Farzaneh Gord, Amin Nabati, Morteza Saadat Targhi and Alireza Rasekh
Evaporation loss is a natural process in which part of liquid is turning to vapor and vanishing into the atmosphere. Crude oil compound from the several hydrocarbons in which some of them evaporate and could be released into the atmosphere at ambient temperature and pressure. This process causes to pollute the environment and has effects on crude oil quality. Any reduction in the loss will also have financial benefit. This makes the phenomena, crude oil evaporation loss an important issue, which should be carefully investigated and effects of various parameters be studied.
The aim of the present work is to determine the evaporation rates from external floating storage tanks and to study the effects of rim seal type on the losses. In this study, a numerical scheme has been developed for estimating the time variations of the storage tank temperature and evaporative losses. The s.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2157-7463.1000103