Tank blanketing is also referred to as tank padding, and it describes the process of applying an inert gas to the vapor space (or unused space) that exists above the chemical inside a storage tank. Tank blanketing is mainly used to add a layer of gas (usually nitrogen) to keep air or moisture from a chemical inside the tank. Since water and oxygen can degrade some chemicals, a nitrogen blanket may help increase the life of that chemical.
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Fittings and Accessories
If you’re new to the chemical tank storage world, it’s likely that you have a lot of questions. Which type of tank is best? What materials are available? What materials are best equipped to handle the chemical you need to store? It’s helpful to know what is standard in the marketplace, the best options for your chemical, and what enhancements might be available to make your chemical storage selection easier.
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Tank Design and Materials
The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) has four tests in place for cross-linked polyethylene tanks. All are intended to ensure that the tank’s materials and composition meet the safety standards necessary for operational chemical storage tanks.
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Certifications and Standards
We’re all well versed on how important it is to choose your chemical storage tank based on the specific chemical you’re storing. The same goes for the pump you choose. Just as there are different tank options better for one chemical or another, certain chemicals and the location of pump require pump design and selection by an expert. Your Poly Processing distributor has carefully been chosen to be a systems expert, capable of combining features of the tank with other fluid handling equipment such as the pump.
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Fittings and Accessories
Many people think that a double-walled storage tank provides a total solution to secondary containment within a chemical tank storage system. And, for the most part, that is true. A tank-within-a-tank, made from high-density cross-linked polyethylene can provide 110% containment. But, what about the fitting on the tank? Is that also contained? If a chemical storage tank system is configured the right way with a transition fitting, your tank is truly protected, and its integrity maintained, but missing the proper fitting can be an especially costly mistake.
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Fittings and Accessories
Chemical leaks present major challenges on a multitude of levels. Not only do they indicate something has gone wrong, but they can cause damage to storage facilities, danger to employees, cost enormous amounts to fix and cleanup, and waste the chemical you’re storing.
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Fittings and Accessories
OR-1000™ is Poly Processing’s innovative system designed to offer a longer lasting solution to applications which require the storage of chemicals that have aggressive oxidation properties. As an option in your chemical storage tank package, it has a number of other benefits that can add longevity to the tank, help the system meet FDA requirements, save water, manpower, and more.
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Tank Design and Materials
The butterfly valve, a lightweight but strong shutoff valve great for IMFO® drains, is easy to install and available in different materials and sizes. One of the many fittings available through Poly Processing, the butterfly valve can be a nice option for your chemical storage tank system.
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Fittings and Accessories
Chemical storage comes with many parts and pieces that need to be understood. One aspect we are often questioned about are the terms that are new to customers as they’re designing a chemical storage tank system.
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Value Added
If you have the need to store chemicals, you want your storage system to be safe, cost-effective and low-maintenance. A lot of manufacturers promise to provide all three, but there are things to think about when designing your tank system that impact the total cost. Things like capital up front costs for equipment, how the engineering of the configuration itself impacts your bottom line, and what long-term costs are associated with your chemical storage system.
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Installation and Service,
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