Refining Processes Handbook
Filled with handy process flow diagrams, this comprehensive reference covers the technologies and operations of petroleum refineries and provides material on operating a jointly owned and operated refinery.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Refining Processes Handbook
Chapter Seventeen: Available Tankage Capacity
In an export refinery, the estimates of the total tankage capacity available for storage of various product groups are required for preparing inventory availability forecasts for product shipping. In single-ownership refineries, the entire tankage capacity is available to sustain the export operation. In joint-ownership refineries, the available tankage capacity for every product group is split between the participants in the ratio of their equity in the refinery. Each participant then uses its share of tankage capacity to hold its inventory for its product shipping.
The procedure for estimating the total available tankage capacity and its allocation to the participants is described in this chapter.
Each participant must maintain its product inventory levels within the storage capacity allocated to it. The tankage capacity allocation is necessary to prepare inventory forecasts of the participants, which is discussed in later chapters.
ESTIMATION OF TOTAL AVAILABLE CAPACITY
The procedure for estimating the total available tankage capacity for a product group is as follows:
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All available tanks in the given product group service are listed. Only tanks in service for the given product group are considered. The tanks in service of a given product group keep changing. Every time a tank goes out of service for scheduled or unscheduled maintenance or a new tank is added in the service of a given product group, the tankage list must be updated.
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Tanks in service in each group are listed along with the following data:
Maximum gross volume (the physical volume of the tank).
Maximum...
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