Chapter 5. Storage Tanks
Once a consensus has developed about how to treat a particular disease, there is huge urge in medicine to follow the herd. Yet blindly playing follow the leader can doom us to going the wrong way if the leaders are poorly informed.—Ian Ayres [22]
Are engineers any different?
No item of equipment is involved in more accidents than the storage tank, probably because storage tanks are fragile and easily damaged by slight overpressure or vacuum. Fortunately, the majority of accidents involving tanks do not cause injury, but they do cause damage, loss of material, and interruption of production. (However, Section 30.13.1 describes an overflow that resulted in a devastating explosion.)
5.1. Overfilling
Most cases of overfilling ...
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