FRP (Fiberglass Reinforced Plastics, also known as GRP, or Glass Reinforced Plastics) is a modern composite material from construction to chemical plant equipment such as tanks and vessels. Chemical equipment of size less than one meter to 20 meters is made using FRP as a construction material.
FRP Chemical Equipments are manufactured mainly by Hand Lay-up and filament winding processes. BS4994 still remains the main standard for this item class.
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Dual Laminate
Due to the corrosion resistant nature of FRP, the tank can be made entirely of composites, or a second liner can be used. In both cases, the inner layer is made using different material properties of the structural part (hence the double name (meaning two) and the laminate (word commonly used for composite material layers))
Liner, if made of FRP is usually rich resin and uses a different type of glass, called "C-Glass", while the structural part uses "E-Glass". Thermoplastic liners are usually 2.3 mm (100 miles) thick. These thermoplastic liners are not considered to contribute mechanical strength. FRP liners are usually cured before winding or lay-up continues, using a BPO/DMA system, or using MEKP catalysts with cobalt in the resin.
If the liner is not made of FRP, there are several options for thermoplastic liners. Engineers need to design a tank based on the chemical corrosion requirements of the equipment. PP, PVC, PTFE, ECTFE, ETFE, FEP, CPVC, PVDF are used as general thermoplastic liners.
Because of the weakness of FRP to buckle, but its great strength against its tensile strength and its resistance to corrosion, hydrostatic tank is a logical application for composites. The tank is designed to withstand the required hydrostatic forces by directing the fiber toward the tangential. This increases the strength of the circle, making the tank anisotropically stronger than steel (pounds per pound).
FRPs built on liners provide structural strength requirements to withstand design conditions such as internal or vacuum pressure, hydrostatic loads, seismic loads (including spilled liquid), wind loads, hydrostatic regeneration loads, and even snow loads.
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Apps
FRP tanks and ships designed according to BS 4994 are widely used in the chemical industry in the following sectors: chlor-alkali producers, fertilizers, pulp and wood paper, metal extraction, refining, electroplating, salt water, vinegar, food processing, and air pollution control equipment, especially in municipal wastewater treatment plants and water treatment plants.
Type
FRP tanks and process vessels are used in a variety of commercial and industrial applications, including chemicals, water & amp; waste water, food & amp; beverages, mining & amp; metal, power, energy, and high purity applications.
Scrubber
FRP Scrubber is used to rub the liquid. In air pollution control technology, scrubber is present in three varieties, Dry Media, Wet Media, and Biology.
Dry Media
Dry media usually involves a dry, dense medium (such as activated carbon) suspended in the center of the vessel on the light support system and the grille. The media controls the concentration of pollutants in the incoming gas through adsorption and uptake.
These ships have some design constraints. They should be designed for
- Unpack and Restore media
- The corrosive effect of the fluid to be treated
- Internal and External Pressures
- Environmental Load
- Supports Loads for lattice and support systems
- Lifting and Installing the Ship
- Regenerate media inside the ship
- Internal Stack supports for double bed construction
- Redundancy for preventive maintenance
- Refuse to remove liquids that decrease dry media
- Condensate removal, to remove any liquid condensing in the vessel
Wet media
Wet media scrubbers usually use contaminated fluid in a scrubbing solution. These ships should be designed for more stringent criteria. Design constraints for wet media scrubbers typically include:
- The corrosive effect of contaminated liquids and scrubbing solution.
- High pressure and spray system loading
- Aerodynamics of internal media to ensure that there are no shortcuts
- Internal Support System
- The fluid container scrubbing for recirculation.
- Internal and External Pressures
- Environmental Load
- Lifting and Installing a vessel
- Pipe from scrubbing fluid to blood vessels
- Drain to remove blood vessel suction
In the case of decarbonator, which is used in reverse osmosis systems to limit the concentration of gases in water, air is a scouring fluid and sprayed liquid is a polluted stream. When the water is sprayed out of the scrubber, the air releases the aqueous gas out of the water, to be treated in another vessel.
Biological
Biological scrubber is structurally identical to wet media scrubbers, but varies in their design. The ship is designed to be larger, so the air moves more slowly through the ship. The media is designed to encourage biological growth, and water that is sprayed through the vessels is filled with nutrients to encourage bacteria to grow. In such scrubbers, bacteria rub the pollutants. Also, instead of a single, large support system (usually 10 feet of media depth for chemical scrubbers), there are several stages of media support, which can alter ship design requirements. (See biofilter for similar technology that is usually done outside FRP vessels.)
Tank
A typical FRP storage tank has an inlet, an outlet, a vent, an access port, a sewer, and an overflow nozzle. However, there are other features that can be included in the tank. The outside staircase allows easy access to the roof for loading. Vessels should be designed to hold the weight of someone standing on this ladder, and even arrest someone standing on the roof. The sloping pads allow for easier draining. Level meter allows one to accurately read liquid level in the tank. Vessels must be resistant to corrosive properties of the liquids they contain. Typically, these ships have a secondary detention structure, if the ship breaks. One of the major contributors to the fiberglass tank market is Design Tank LLC, a manufacturing company from Sioux Falls, SD.
Size
The size of FRP Vessels is rarely limited by manufacturing technology, but rather by the economy. Tanks smaller than 7,500 liters (2,000 gallons) are easily made from cheaper materials, such as HDPE or PVC. Tanks larger than four meters are generally constrained by delivery constraints, and the economy suggests concrete or steel tanks made at the tank site.
For chemical storage and air pollution control, the choice is to make some tanks with a smaller diameter. For example, one of the largest odor-control projects in California, the Orange County Sanitation District will utilize 24 total vessels to treat 188,300 cfm (86,200 L/s) smelly air, with designs of up to 50 ppm hydrogen sulfide. For a single ship equivalent to conduct as well as 13 trickling head filters, the single vessel must be more than 36 meters in diameter. This will be impractical due to high shipping requirements, internal support, spray nozzles and other internals. Plus this single ship will not include redundancy for preventive maintenance.
Limitations
FRP vessels and typical constructs are almost entirely based on application parameters and resins used. Thermoplastic resins will experience creep at high temperatures and eventually fail. However, new chemistry has produced resins that claim to be capable of reaching higher temperatures, which extend this field greatly. The maximum is generally 200 degrees Celsius.
Fiber and construction vessels are also susceptible to degradation in long-term exposure to sunlight. This damage is caused by chemical changes that occur as a result of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light. Degradation produces a tank and fiberglass construction, opening up the pores on the surface to allow styrene to dash out of the ship or its construction walls, causing them to be strung together, reducing impact resistance and potential elongation properties of the passage. Degradation of UV rays can be effectively inhibited by the addition of gelcoats and exterior sealants, which protect the construction of fiberglass through the removal of UV access to the product surface thus deflecting UV energy.
The UV life of a part depends on the level and type of UV additive as well as the thickness and design of the part, the pigment type, the level and effectiveness of the dispersion, the processing conditions and the geographic location in which the printed part is used (see Figure 3). This is important when comparing the performance of UV resins to ensure that testing has been done consistently. In Figure 1, accelerated weathering data is presented. Generally, 2,000 hours correspond to 1 year in Florida and 1,400 hours to 1 year in Southern Canada. Often terms like "UV-8" are used. UV-8 means the material can last 8,000 hours in Xenon Ci-65 weather. UV-2 or UV-4 means each of 2,000 or 4,000 hours. Therefore, UV-8 corresponds to about 4 years of continuous outdoor exposure in Florida. It is important to understand which weatherometer, Carbon Arc or Xenon, is used, as well as details of how the weatherometer is run. ASTM D-2565 is a recognized standard. Testing can be done using actual outdoor weathering exposures, such as Florida and Arizona, to confirm this data. Note Figure 1 uses industry standard criteria when samples have reached less than 50% of the original breakout to determine the end of the test. In many cases, the useful life of that passage goes beyond this point. All the samples in Fig. 1 are not pigmented as supplied by Exxon Chemical. UV performance test data can be found on our data sheet for each particular class. Characteristics of Ultraviolet Light Stability (UV) Plastic Stabilization is attacked and worsens when exposed to direct sunlight. When the plastic tank absorbs the sun's ultraviolet rays, UV energy excites the polymer chain, causing it to break. The effect is color change, embrittlement and ultimately cracking. High temperatures and oxygen tend to accelerate deterioration. Registered tanks suitable for outdoor services are protected from UV attacks by: dyeing or making pigments and/or adding internal stabilizers that preferentially absorb or dispose of UV energy. The shading tank from the sun will also prevent damage. Tanks should be free to expand or contract, avoid excessive tension in the tank. For assistance in choosing the right tank for a particular application, see the Tank Resin Selection Guide with a leading resin manufacturer. Resources published with additional reference placement for AVENGENERAL ISOLIN RADIATION GLOBAL AND THERE EFFECT ON POLYMERS Year = 70 x UV Ranking (Isoline Your Location) (from Figure 3) Example: Natural Section, Correctly Formed, Using UV-8 Additive Package Used in Florida ieFlorida = 140 Kkal/cm @ 2/year. (From Figure 3) So Year "Expected" = 70/140 x 8 = 4 Years (up to 50% of the remaining original renewal of the remaining property.
Think about protecting your fiberglass investment from UV, just as you protect your kids with a sun screen; gelcoat is sunblock for your tank, ship and other fiberglass construction.
Design standard
Fiberglass Tanks fall under some group settings.
- Bs4994-87 is the English Standard Standard for FRP Tanks and Vessels replaced by EN 13121.
- EN 13121
- ASME RTP-1 (Reinforced Thermoset Plastic Corrosion Resistant Equipment) is a standard for FRP tanks and vessels held in the United States under 15 psig and located partially or entirely above ground.
Custom design parameters and specifications will require compliance with ASME RTP-1 or ASME accreditation.
- ASTM 3299 which is only a product specification, regulates the filament winding process for the tank. This is not a design standard.
- SS245: Singapore Standard 1995 for Sectional GRP Water Storage Tanks.
Bs4994
This is to avoid the uncertainty associated with determining the thickness only, that BS4994 introduces the concept of "unit properties". This is a property per unit width, per unit of reinforcing mass. For example, the STRENGTH UNIT is defined as a load in Newton per millimeter (of laminate width) for layers consisting of 1 kg of glass per square meter. ie the unit is N/mm per glass Kg/m2
ASME RTP-1
In the RTP-1 specification, the primary concern relates to stresses and strain, such as circular stress, axial voltage, and voltage breaks to the physical properties of materials, such as Young's modulus (which may require anisotropic analysis due to the filament filament process). This is related to design loads, such as internal strain and pressure.
BS EN 13121
This European standard replaces the currently marked BS4994-87 as Current, Obsoles, Replaced.
SS245: 1995
This is the Singapore Standard for the GRP sectional water tank, which is current.
See also
- BS EN 13121-3
- BS 4994
References
Sectional GRP tank sample. https://www.mechgroup.co.uk/grp-sectional-tanks Example GRP Cylinder tank. https://www.mechgroup.co.uk/grp-cylindrical-tanks
Further reading
- BS 4994: 1987 - Specifications for the design and construction of reinforced tin ships and tanks . Standard English. 1987-06-30. ISBN: 0-580-15075-5.
- "Case Vessel Design Case Study". ESR Technology. Archived from the original on 2007-05-12. Ã, - case studies of the design process of a cylindrical vessel, using BS 4994 methodology
- Making FRP Tanks and Vessels
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