Are there any benefits of using rectangular tanks over round tanks?
A. We think so. It must be remembered why anyone uses round tanks in the first place. A round tank is really just a cylinder holding the water. Because water exerts pressure equally in all directions when placed in a cylinder, round water vessels can be constructed very cheaply using the minimum thickness of materials. The advantages of this fact is, round tanks can be transported to a site and quickly set up. However, this convenience is the only quality of a round tank and this lends no particular advantage where production is concerned. It should be remembered that it is production that pays the bills and the fact that the tanks were easy to install should not be allowed to over shadow future performance. The most obvious first drawback to a round tank is they are space intensive. A round tank in a rectangular room means there is going to be a lot of wasted space in that room in the corners that the tank does not cover. Another draw back is the fact that a round tank has no differen
A. We think so. It must be remembered why anyone uses round tanks in the first place. A round tank is really just a cylinder holding the water. Because water exerts pressure equally in all directions when placed in a cylinder, round water vessels can be constructed very cheaply using the minimum thickness of materials. The advantages of this fact is, round tanks can be transported to a site and quickly set up. However, this convenience is the only quality of a round tank and this lends no particular advantage where production is concerned. It should be remembered that it is production that pays the bills and the fact that the tanks were easy to install should not be allowed to over shadow future performance. The most obvious first drawback to a round tank is they are space intensive. A round tank in a rectangular room means there is going to be a lot of wasted space in that room in the corners that the tank does not cover. Another draw back is the fact that a round tank has no differen
