Transparent Tank

[TechSupport1]

My facility has a product that requires exposure to light to reduce the color. Has anyone seen, specified, or designed a large (~10,000 gal) transparent or translucent tank that would be placed into a chemical plant or refinery that would satisfy API or other guidelines.

 

[MikeHalloran]

I don't know how you can control the integrated exposure in a tank. You would probably do better with a flow- through treatment device. Imagine a Pyrex tube with an arc lamp inside it, surrounded by an annulus of flowing fluid contained by a larger tube. Arrange them in ranks like tubes in a heat exchanger, and you've got a ... I don't know what, but I swear I've seen them advertised, somewhere.




Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[JoeTank]

Sounds like you need a very big aquarium. An open top tank comes to mind as a possibility, but keeping the birds and their mess out of the product would be a challenge. Maybe an open top tank with a glass cover?

Steve Braune
Tank Industry Consultants

http://www.tankindustry.com

 

[Latexman]

Is just part of the spectrum of sunlight responsible for reducing the color. If so, this would allow you to apply the right spectrum in more concentrated doses. A UV and/or IR lamps shining through port hole sight glasses in the tank top may do the trick.

Good luck,
Latexman

 

[moltenmetal]

Did you read my post to your previous thread?

Forget about a transparent tank. Analyze the situation and you may find that 99.999% of the usable fraction of the light may be absorbed by 1/8" thickness of glass or 1" of your product itself. Putting it in a deep tank or one with a glass window in it would therefore be totally ineffective.

Forget about using sunlight also. Guaranteed this process can be done more effectively using an efficient visible or UV/vis lamp in a properly designed photoreactor 1/100,000th the size of your tank.