Oil terminal
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An oil terminal is an industrial facility for the storage of oil, petroleum and petrochemical products, and from which these products are transported to end users or other storage facilities. An oil t
Evos Amsterdam Oost Terminal, as seen from an airplane. It facilitates storage and blending of gasoline, oil, and bio fuels.
An oil depot in Kowloon, Hong Kong around the mid-1980s. The depot was redeveloped into a residential area Laguna City in the late 80s and early 90s.
Tank farm at McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Historical oil tank using steel rivets to attach wall metal plates
Horton sphere
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A Horton sphere, 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
Oil terminal
…using hot water or steam to keep the contents warm. This reduces the viscosity of the product to ease transfer and pumping. Terminals may also have Horton spheres which are used to store liquefied petroleum gases such as propane and butane (see left foreground of the above Kowloon oil depot). The design, construction…
Horton Sphere in Alberta, Canada
Spherical tanks at Karlsruhe MiRO petroleum refinery