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A pyrgeometer is a device that measures near-surface infra-red (IR) radiation, approximately from 4.5 μm to 100 μm on the electromagnetic spectrum (thereby excluding solar radiation). It measures the resistance / voltage changes in a material that is sensitive to the net energy transfer by radiation that occurs between itself and its ...
Enbridge crude oil tank farm has a maximum storage capacity of 20,060,000 barrels (3,189,000 m 3) (2010) The stairs give a relative perspective of the size of the massive storage tanks in Cushing. Cushing serves as a transshipment point for gathering crude oil from all directions.
A Horton sphere (sometimes spelled Hortonsphere), also referred to as a spherical tank or simply sphere, is a spherical pressure vessel, which is used for industrial-scale storage of liquefied gases. Example of materials that can be stored in Horton spheres are liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), and anhydrous ammonia .
Stack Tank Oil (STO) density (or API) may also be used by regulatory bodies to classify oil and oil products. Other properties such as Molecular Weight , saturated aromatic resin and asphaltene (SARA), refractive index , wax appearance temperature, asphaltene precipitation, and acid number , are also specified at Stock Tank conditions. [ 1 ]
Crude oil is classified as light, medium, or heavy according to its measured API gravity. Light crude oil has an API gravity higher than 31.1° (i.e., less than 870 kg/m 3) Medium oil has an API gravity between 22.3 and 31.1° (i.e., 870 to 920 kg/m 3) Heavy crude oil has an API gravity below 22.3° (i.e., 920 to 1000 kg/m 3)
The book Introduction to Architectural Science states about liquid fuel storage tanks, "often in a housing development a central storage tank is installed (usually underground) which will be filled by an oil company", and that a supply of liquid fuel is piped to individual apartments or houses from the central storage tank. [2]
That blaze also destroyed more than 30 oil storage tanks and half a dozen buildings with a loss estimated at $100,000. [49] On August 27, 1955, a brand new hydroformer at the Whiting Standard of Indiana refinery exploded and burned. An 8-day long fire then consumed at least 45 acres of storage tanks and damaged nearby homes and businesses.
Humble began construction of a 55,000-barrel (8,700 m 3) storage tank to hold the oil, but even that was insufficient for the colossal quantities of crude that flowed from the field. Many of the early wells on the Yates Field were phenomenally productive; the first five wells, by spring 1927, together produced an average of 9,009 barrels per ...