Challenges in store
Pipelines facilitate the downstream storage operations of tanks and tankers, but various challenges stand in their way. In this article, Sales and Senior Research Engineer Harry Smith covers the following pipeline related challenges of tank and tanker operations:
- Corrosion
- Short pipelines
- Anchor strikes
- Data communications blocked by passing ships
- Multiple ended offshore leak detection
- Environmental impacts
- Fines
Two case studies are also presented to offer solutions to particular tank and tanker storage operation challenges, the first discussing a dynamic pump and tank optimizer for water networks and the second about leak detection for an offshore-onshore tanker uploading pipeline.
Tank and tanker networks have an opportunity to improve operations. Discover how by reading this issue of Tanks and Terminals.