floating roof

Down the crust goes and drifts under the floating roof.

Floating roofs are supported with legs or cables on which they rest.

The terminal building has a light, floating roof that gives a simple construction.

This floating roof traps the vapor from low flash-point fuels.

FR tanks do not have a fixed roof (it is open in the top) and has a floating roof only.

Dramatic floating roofs, stacked-stone walls, lots of big windows.

Ford already uses this floating roof design on the Ford Flex.

Storage tanks are often cylindrical in shape, perpendicular to the ground with flat bottoms, and a fixed or floating roof.

Floating roofs are considered a safety requirement as well as a pollution prevention measure for many industries including petroleum refining.

Sentries shifted on the rock, watching the river, watching the Shadow Nest and its floating roof.

Some storage tanks need a floating roof in addition to or in lieu of the fixed roof and structure.

'The Gates' would be like a giant floating roof over the park," Jeanne-Claude said.

An external floating roof tank is a storage tank commonly used to store large quantities of petroleum products such as crude oil or condensate.

This floating roof rises and falls with the liquid level inside the tank, thereby decreasing the vapor space above the liquid level.

These tanks are nothing but cone roof tanks with a floating roof inside which travels up and down along with the liquid level.

Generally in refineries and especially for liquid fuels, there are fixed roof tanks, and floating roof tanks.

In his publication, Mies describes a seemingly floating roof plane, suspended above a single clear-span space punctuated by equidistant columns.

As opposed to a fixed roof tank there is no vapor space (ullage) in the floating roof tank (except for very low liquid level situations).

"The floating roof made me think of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion."

The simplicity of the straight-lined structure with the floating roof is also related to Mies van der Rohe's pavilions.

While standing on the property, Hertz imagined a floating roof that would hang over the site to minimize structural obstructions of the views of a nearby mountain ridge.

In a third case, Exxon's plant in Linden, N.J., installed floating roofs on 16 of its 200 storage tanks, cutting evaporation losses from liquid chemicals by 90 percent.

The propane and butane is chilled, liquefied and stored on site within double integrity tanks, the gasoline is also stored on site within floating roof tanks.

The building, for which Kutnicki Bernstein is the production architect, integrates iron-spot brick and stainless steel mesh with limestone and features such contemporary design details as a floating roof plane.

Coastguards headed towards the dog after spotting it on the floating roof of a house that had been washed out to sea, about 1.1 miles from the coast of Kesennuma in the north-east.