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An external floating roof tank is a storage tank commonly used to store large quantities of petroleum products such as crude oil or condensate. It consists of an open- topped cylindrical steel shell equipped with a roof that floats on the surface of the stored liquid. The roof rises and falls with the liquid level in the tank. [1]
Floating Cranes United States: Crane vessel: YU-207 [42] YU-206: Built by Todd Shipyards in Seattle Washington, 140 feet 1,407 t derrick barge built for US Navy in 1952 as YD-191 and sold 1980 to PN [43] [44] ARDC-1 class United States: Floating Drydock: YD-205: Former US small auxiliary concrete floating drydock. YD-205 loaned in 1969 ...
Fort Drum, also known as El Fraile Island (Tagalog: Pulo ng El Fraile), is a heavily fortified island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island. Nicknamed a "concrete battleship", [1] the reinforced concrete sea fort, shaped like a battleship, was built by the United States in 1909 as one of the ...
The Sabrah light tank is series of armored fighting vehicles developed by Elbit Systems to cater to the Philippine Army's light tank/tank destroyer requirement. The tracked light tank configuration is based on ASCOD 2 platform, supplied by Spanish manufacturer GDELS - Santa Bárbara Sistemas. [2] The wheeled light tank configuration is based on ...
Rooftop water towers atop apartment buildings on East 57th Street in New York City showing differing kinds of tank A highrise residential building with integrated water tank in Bremerhaven, Germany. A rooftop water tower is a variant of a water tower, consisting of a water container placed on the roof of a tall building. This structure supplies ...
S. Socorro Water Towers. Categories: Water towers by country. Towers in the Philippines. Water supply and sanitation in the Philippines.
The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System [1] (Tagalog: Pangasiwaan ng Tubig at Alkantarilya sa Kalakhang Maynila), [5] formerly known as the National Waterworks and Sewerage System Authority (NAWASA), is the government agency that is in charge of water privatization in Metro Manila and nearby provinces of Cavite and Rizal in the Philippines.
El Depósito. El Depósito (lit: The Deposit) is an old underground water reservoir in the city of San Juan in Metro Manila, Philippines. It was built by the Spanish authorities in 1882 [1] with a capacity of 15 million gallons to provide the residents of Manila and its surrounding areas with an adequate water supply. [2] The reservoir was ...