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Journal Article

Author
Langford, A. F. W.
Title
The manufacture, installation and commissioning of 16,000-gallon vacuum-powder insulated storage tanks
In
Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
Imprint
vol. 37, no. 9, Sep 1965, pp. 233-249
Description

Paper No. 1902, presented before the Engineering Conference, 1965, in Perth from 5th to 9th April, 1965.
The author, A. F. W. Langford, VRD AMIEAust, is Engineer Class 4 Mechanical Design, Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury, South Australia.

[This paper was awarded the Mechanical Engineering Prize 1965]

Abstract

This paper describes some of the unusual problems met in making, transporting, installing and operating large cryogenic liquid storage tanks. The solutions arrived at to overcome these problems together with some of the possible alternatives are discussed with a view to preventing our mistakes being made again by others.

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  • 'Mechanical Engineering Prize - 1965 Award', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 39 (1-2) (1967), N20-N21. Details

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