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Standard Lifting Lug Horizontal Tank

This document provides standards for the construction and manufacturing of storage tanks. It specifies requirements for lifting lugs, support saddles, holding brackets, ladders, platforms, and welding. Lifting lugs must be provided on tanks under and over 5,500 mm in length. Support saddles must be of adequate strength and positioned correctly to support horizontal tanks. Vertical tanks require holding down brackets and bolts. Manufacturing requirements include weld throat thickness, alignment of edges, fillet weld leg length, and attachment of reinforcements.

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Standard Lifting Lug Horizontal Tank

This document provides standards for the construction and manufacturing of storage tanks. It specifies requirements for lifting lugs, support saddles, holding brackets, ladders, platforms, and welding. Lifting lugs must be provided on tanks under and over 5,500 mm in length. Support saddles must be of adequate strength and positioned correctly to support horizontal tanks. Vertical tanks require holding down brackets and bolts. Manufacturing requirements include weld throat thickness, alignment of edges, fillet weld leg length, and attachment of reinforcements.

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 In the case of tanks of length not exceeding 5 500 mm, and tanks of length exceeding
5 500 mm, lifting lugs as shown in figure A.2(a) shall be provided.

 The typical details of lifting lugs are given in figure A.5.

 The lifting lugs shall be used to lift empty tanks.

For lifting lugs on vertical tanks, see figure A.2(b).

The lifting lug doubling plate shall be of dimensions at least 6 mm × 150 mm × 200 mm.

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Support saddles (see figure A.6(c)) shall be of adequate strength to support the tank and positioned at
the correct centres on the tank. Supports shall be as shown in figures A.6(a) and A.6(b). The tank shall
have a doubling plate directly beneath each saddle. The doubling plate shall be 30 mm wider than the
support.

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All vertical tanks shall be provided with holding down brackets and bolts. The bolts shall be galvanized.
Tanks of a diameter up to 2 400 mm shall have four brackets and bolts, and tanks of diameter up to
3 000 mm shall have six brackets (see figures A.7(a), A.7(b) and A.7(c)).

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Tanks of height not exceeding 13 m may have a cat ladder (see figure A.8(a)); tanks of height
exceeding 13 m shall be equipped with a spiral staircase (see figure A.8(b)). Platforms shall conform to
figure A.9. Horizontally installed tanks shall conform to figure A.10.

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 All butt welds shall have a throat section of thickness not less than the plate thickness and the
plate shall be welded on both sides.

 Root edges or root faces shall not be misaligned by more than 25 % of the plate thickness.

 Fillet welds shall be of leg length not less than the plate thickness.

 When a tank barrel is manufactured from more than one plate, adjacent rings can be butted
or lapped, except when the tank is intended for storage of aviation petroleum or other quality-sensitive
products. In such cases all welds shall be butted. The longitudinal seams of adjacent rings shall be
displaced radically by at least 60°.

 External reinforcement or internal reinforcement (or both), when required (see annex B), shall
be attached by means of continuous fillet welds.

 All required apertures (see annex B) in the tank barrel shall be cut before the tank ends are
attached to the tank barrel.

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