Tanks and Field Erection

Erecting storage tanks, stacks and large structures in the field, followed through a season with Ironbridge Industrial out of Nisku: tank types and how they are built, foundations, bottoms and annular plates, jacking and conventional shell erection, shell welding, plumbness and roundness, fixed and floating roofs and their seals, nozzles, manways and appurtenances, stacks, breeching and ductwork, structural and flange bolting, bolt torque and tensioning, and field quality control, NDE and hydrotesting, ending with a capstone that erects a new crude oil tank at Prairie Junction Terminal.

BLR-230 12 lessons · 3 h 36 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon

Offered by HSM University · Boilermaking

This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.

What you'll learn

Describe field-erected tanks, stacks and ductwork, the standards that govern them and the roles of the owner, contractor and inspectors, and work out nominal and working tank capacity
Compare fixed roof, floating roof, bolted and water tank types and size shell courses with the one-foot method
Check a tank foundation, lay out an annular ring and bottom, and weld and test the bottom in the correct sequence
Erect a tank shell by the conventional and jacking methods, including plate layout, seam stagger, jack planning and wind stability
Control shell welding distortion and measure plumbness, roundness, peaking and banding against API 650 tolerances
Build fixed and floating roofs and fit and survey rim seals against gap limits
Lay out, reinforce, space and test shell openings and install tank appurtenances
Explain stack wind loads and vortex shedding, set a stack in sections and install breeching with expansion joints
Make up snug-tight and pretensioned structural joints and assemble flanged joints to ASME PCC-1 practice
Relate torque to bolt load, choose and calibrate tightening tools, and use hydraulic tensioners
Plan field quality control, spot radiography and a staged hydrotest with settlement measurement
Carry a storage tank from pre-test review through hydrotest, settlement evaluation and handover

Course content

12 lessons · 3 h 36 min total · final exam

1 Field-erected tanks and structures 20 min · quiz
2 Tank types: fixed roof, floating roof and bolted tanks 18 min · quiz
3 Foundations, bottoms and annular plates 17 min · quiz
4 Shell erection: jacking and conventional methods 19 min · quiz
5 Shell welding, plumbness and roundness 17 min · quiz
6 Roofs, floating roofs and seals 17 min · quiz
7 Nozzles, manways and tank appurtenances 19 min · quiz
8 Stacks, breeching and ductwork 19 min · quiz
9 Structural bolting and flange bolting 17 min · quiz
10 Bolt torque and tensioning 19 min · quiz
11 Field quality control, NDE and hydrotesting a tank 17 min · quiz
12 Capstone: erecting Tank 15 17 min · quiz
E Final exam 20 questions

Requirements

Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.