TANK®
TANK is crucial for engineers designing and analyzing storage tanks. Its comprehensive features, international standards compliance, and user-friendly interface ensure safety, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. Using TANK helps engineers streamline workflows, reduce risks, and deliver high-quality solutions for clients.
What is TANK®
TANK is a comprehensive tool for the design, analysis, and evaluation of storage tanks used in industries such as oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical processing, and more. This software is widely used for ensuring that storage tanks are safe, reliable, and compliant with industry standards.
TANK provides for the design and analysis of wall and bottom plate thickness, supported cone roofs, service and maintenance considerations and other factors affecting tank design and safety, such as internal pressure, shell settlement, seismic and wind. TANK saves time by
letting users select material information automatically from its extensive built-in material databases.
Overview
Why use TANK?
TANK is used to ensure that oil storage tanks are designed and constructed in accordance with applicable international design and safety codes, which concern the safe storage and distribution of crude oil typically but can also be applied to the design of tanks used to store other flammable/non-flammable liquids.
The solution performs calculations in accordance with the latest API standards 650, 620, and 653. Analysis can also consider wind, seismic and settlement conditions - plus it can calculate air venting requirements to API 2000 Section 4.3.
Who uses TANK?
Companies involved in the design and manufacture, or operation and maintenance of oil storage tanks.
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Industries Served
Benefits of TANK®
Software internationally recognised by EPCs, Owner operators, and Notified Bodies.
- API Standard 650 and 653: TANK supports the latest versions of the American Petroleum Institute (API) standards, including API 650 for the design and construction of welded storage tanks and API 653 for tank inspection, repair, alteration, and reconstruction.
- International Standards: In addition to API standards, TANK can also work with other international standards, e.g. the European tank code - EN14015, ensuring compliance with regional regulations and requirements.
- Structural Analysis: TANK provides robust structural analysis features that allow engineers to assess the strength and stability of tank designs under various load conditions, including wind, seismic, and hydrostatic pressure.
- Settlement Analysis: The software includes settlement analysis tools to evaluate how tanks will perform on uneven or shifting foundations, ensuring long-term stability.
- Thermal Analysis: TANK offers thermal analysis capabilities to evaluate the effects of temperature variations on tank materials and structural integrity, crucial for tanks exposed to fluctuating temperatures.
- Fitness-for-Service: assessments performed according to API 579.
- New Tank Design: TANK allows engineers to design new storage tanks from scratch, considering various parameters such as dimensions,
materials, and environmental conditions. In-built error checking ensures analysis only performed when robust tank data has been input. Quick input of boundary conditions and fast, accurate creation of tank models in accordance with American Petroleum Institute (API) standards.
- Retrofitting and Alterations: The software supports the analysis and design of alterations or retrofitting of existing tanks, enabling users to
upgrade facilities to meet new requirements or extend their service life.
- Material Selection: TANK provides guidance on material selection based on factors such as corrosion resistance, temperature resilience, and chemical compatibility. Easily edit or customise material properties in accordance with project requirements.
- Intuitive Design Environment: The software features a user-friendly interface that simplifies the design and analysis process, making it accessible to engineers with varying levels of experience.
- 3D Visualization: TANK includes 3D visualization tools that provide a clear view of tank designs, helping engineers and stakeholders understand complex designs and identify potential issues early in the process. Ease of use and evaluation of stress analysis results enhanced by cutting-edge graphics that are highly responsive and performant during model creation, manipulation, and viewing. Graphical animation of results aids in decision making and problem resolution.
- Automated Calculations: TANK automates many complex calculations, significantly reducing the time engineers need to spend on manual computations, thereby improving productivity and accuracy.
- Quick Design Iterations: The software allows for rapid design iterations, enabling engineers to quickly evaluate different design scenarios and optimize for cost, safety, and performance.
- Detailed Reports: TANK generates comprehensive reports that include detailed analysis results, design summaries, and compliance documentation, which can be customized to meet project or client requirements.
- Easy Documentation: The software provides clear and organized documentation of the design process, making it easier to track decisions and modifications throughout the project lifecycle.
- Integration: TANK integrates with Intergraph Smart 3D via VUE format enabling stress engineers and design groups to work together without duplicating information and effort.
- Stress and Fatigue Analysis: TANK includes tools for analysing stress and fatigue, ensuring that tank designs can withstand operational pressures and cycles over their expected lifespan.
- Risk Mitigation: By ensuring compliance with industry standards and providing robust analysis capabilities, TANK helps mitigate risks associated with tank failures, leaks, or environmental impacts.
- Training Resources: Users have access to a variety of training resources, including webinars, tutorials, and documentation, to help them maximize the benefits of TANK software. Free eLearning available via Hexagon University.
- Technical Support: Hexagon offers comprehensive technical support, assisting users with troubleshooting, software updates, and best practices.
TANK is an essential tool for engineers involved in the design and analysis of storage tanks. Its comprehensive features, compliance with international standards, and user-friendly interface making it an invaluable tool for ensuring the safety, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of tank designs. By using TANK, engineers can streamline their workflows, reduce risks, and deliver high-quality solutions for their clients.
Capabilities | |
|---|---|
Steel oil storage tank design | Wind loads and anchorage |
3D interactive graphics | Seismic analysis |
Analysis output and reports | Settlement loads |
Complete unit flexibility | Shell course thicknesses |
API standards 579, 620, 650 and 653 | Supported cone roofs |
API 2000, section 4.3 for venting | Cone, Dome, and Umbrella roof thicknesses |
Allowable fluid heights | Carbon and Stainless steel |
Nozzle loads and flexibilities | Extensive material databases |
Key Features
Adding a Nozzle to an API 650 Tank
Inherently part of the design of any storage tank, to enable fluid
flow in and out of, are nozzles. To ensure a safe design is produce, TANK
performs analysis of nozzle flexibility in combination with external loads applied
by connected piping.
Changing the Roof Type of a API 650 Tank
TANK can design oil storage tanks with unsupported or supported cone roofs. The latter allows the designer to adjust input data and visualize the tank roof support structure in 2D and 3D.
Tank Shell Settlement
Tanks can settle into the ground due to their weight and the liquid they hold. This settling needs to be considered in the tank's design to prevent deformation or buckling. The API 653 Settlement Evaluation Report in TANK provides an assessment of this settlement movement through a 2D plot view.
Design Revision to API 653
Oil storage tanks need to be inspected periodically to ensure they will continue to
be safe whilst continuing to operate. Existing tanks can be examined according
to the rules of API 653, which checks to determine whether the tank is still
operating within acceptable limits.
API 650 Tank
TANK is intuitive and easy to use, and makes creating tank models in accordance with API standards simple. You create geometry by entering appropriate input data, quickly calculate and visualise analysis results, modify the model and input
data to solve any issues, and finally, produce deliverables.
Customer Success Stories
Help & Assistance
Unmatched Support
Troubleshoot your TANK issues with ease with our dedicated support team and plethora of support documents. Our team provides effective solutions based on extensive product usage and industry expertise.
Expert Training
Empower your team with Hexagon University, which contains our expert training programs as well as tips and tricks for improving your workflows across Hexagon products. Check out live webinars, detailed tutorials and personalized training sessions, ensuring your team is proficient and confident in using TANK to its full potential.
