More than half of the world’s larger tanks used for storing common petroleum products have floating roofs, and this proportion is likely to rise due to tightening demands for reduced vapour emissions.
Floating roofs offer environmental and economic benefits over fixed roofs without the need for vapour balancing and recovery. However, issues such as sinking, tilting, leaking and sticking decks can affect the performance of floating roofs - potentially leading to costly structural damage and major environmental and safety risks. Therefore, it is vitally important that any problems can be detected as soon as possible, so that action can be taken to correct issues at an early stage before they can lead to a serious incident.
To successfully meet this challenge, operators need to closely monitor their external floating roofs.
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