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Models For Decanting Gaseous Fuel Tanks: Simulations With Gfssp Thermal Model, Kailash Kumar Jain Munoth

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Transport of fuel from distillation/storage plant to different parts of the world has always been challenging task for Engineers. Different methods have been proposed over the time for transporting fuel efficiently and at low cost which include Marine vessels, Pipelines, Rail Cars and Trucks. In order to transport useful amount of fuel in a reasonably sized tank, we have to liquefy it. While few fuels are easy to liquefy there are great number of fuels which liquefy only under extreme pressure/temperature conditions. Methane has a boiling point of -161.7°C at atmospheric pressure which means it has to be cooled to …