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Tank Filling

11/02/2011 5:14 AM

Hello,

Question at hand is that we have an oil tank that needs to be filled with nitrogen as oil gets depleted. Capacity of tank is 50 m3. pressure required inside the tank is 1bar(g). how many Nm3 of gaseous nitrogen be required to fill it up, would it be 32,320 Nm3? Purpose is to keep blanketing of the oil tank.
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Re: Tank Filling

11/02/2011 9:04 AM

At 20ºC and 0 psig (atmospheric pressure at sea level) it would be exactly the volume of the tank. At 1bar, it would be roughly twice that, ~100m3.

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