What is a tanker?

From the past to the present, the tanker industry has undergone thousands of fundamental changes until it has finally become the current form. Every year, countless tankers are produced and thousands of tankers are retired. In this article, we explain the cause of this cycle and We express the importance of tankers. Tanker or tank is the best option for transporting and storing fuel and all kinds of liquids. Tankers have different dimensions, types and models depending on the need and type of liquid to be transported. ST37 steel sheet is usually used in the tanker industry, most of the tankers are made of black steel sheet because the steel has a high resistance to possible impacts while driving and it can be easily shaped. In different sizes and shapes, they are connected to each other by electric welding or carbon dioxide welding. The thickness of the steel sheet for tanker construction is about three millimeters to higher thicknesses, and for different users and industries, different insulation and piping are used, for example, in a tanker carrying bitumen, insulation and a burner are needed, while for a tanker carrying acid, it must be made of steel. used to be resistant to acid corrosion.

Every car and device that has the ability to move and do work needs fuel. Fuel, which has different types and is different for each device, must be stored somewhere separate from our living environment, because whatever fuel is toxic and harmful to humans. Oil, gasoline, fuel oil and diesel, each of which is considered a type of fuel, must be transported by fuel tanker because they are flammable and produce dangerous gases. The fuel tanker is made of steel sheet with a thickness of three millimeters and a lens of four millimeters. These tankers have three exits that improve the refueling and unloading process.

Bitumen, which is used in asphalt production, isogum production and building insulation, must be transported by special tankers due to its stickiness and sensitivity to temperature. Maybe until the past few years, transporting bitumen was a very difficult task, and transporting bitumen with single-walled tankers was equal to continuous pollution of the environment, increasing the time of unloading, and increasing the fuel consumption for reheating bitumen, but today, with the prohibition of transporting bitumen with Single-walled tankers are no longer so burdensome and harmful to carry bitumen. Bitumen, which must be liquid and at the specified temperature, because in single-walled tankers, the temperature of bitumen decreases rapidly and the bitumen solidifies, and reheating the bitumen not only threatens the environment, but also reduces the quality of the bitumen. was doing Therefore, the bitumen tankers are double-walled with stone wool and today they are strong insulation against the temperature of the outside environment and keep the temperature of the bitumen constant for a week. Also, if the driver is aware that the cargo must travel a long distance and it will take more than seven days. The bitumen tanker has the possibility to be equipped with a heating system and as soon as the bitumen cools down, it can be reheated by a burner. The double-walled tankers carrying molten bitumen are also made of ST37 steel, then it is covered with stone wool by a belt, and in the last step, galvanized sheet is used as the second wall.

All over the world, it is normal to transport water, gasoline or bitumen, but if your cargo is sulfuric acid or phosphoric acid, then the problem is different. The acid is very widely used in mines. It has corrosive properties and it is not easy to carry it, on the other hand, it causes serious problems for humans and their surroundings. If this corrosive substance is combined with water, it can easily become a strong explosive. Therefore, to transport and store acid, special tankers must be used, i.e. acid tankers. These tankers are also made of ST37 steel sheet, with the difference that the thickness of the sheet and lens for the acid tanker is five millimeters and the capacity of these tankers. It varies depending on the density of the acid.