EdStainless, that is helpful. I can see that also being a plus for installing a roof.
Rogue, I think that it where I have been rethinking the scenario. Once the tank is heated during the day the heat will be stored at night and will cool off slower than a tank in the shade. This puts the...
EdStainless, in our discussions with the tank manufacturer, they typically coat the tank with a UV-Resistant gel coating to protect against UV. How much would sunlight alone affect the longevity of the gel-coating?
It occurred to me that the perhaps another difference in the two scenarios is...
I thought that I could use actual data from the National Solar Radiation Data Base (https://nsrdb.nrel.gov/) to get a solar radiation value which accounts for cloud cover. I would take the maximum Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI) value for a respective year as an extreme case. Then I would...
Thanks for the response LittleInch.
A few more details on the setup. The tank is vertical cylindrical with a flat roof. Dimensions are 14 feet in diameter and 22.5 feet high. The total storage capacity of the tank is 25,000 gallons. The tank will sit directly on a concrete slab. I thought about...
I am trying to present the benefits of installing a roof structure to shield a sodium hypochlorite storage tank (FRP material) from direct sunlight and mitigate chemical degradation. I would like to try and quantify the increase in average temperature of the chemical within a sun-exposed tank in...
