Floating Roof System

In principle this eliminates tank breathing loss and greatly reduces the evaporative loss of the stored liquid.
Floating roof system. The floating roofs can be either external i e with open top tanks or internal i e inside fixed roof tanks. The roof rises and falls with the liquid level in the tank. Tanks with external floating roofs are used primarily to contain liquids with high vapor pressures when the vapor emissions from fixed roof tanks would exceed the standards set by the local jurisdiction. Floating roof systems floating roofs were designed more than 100 years ago as a safety precaution to keep explosive gasses from building up between the roof of a tank and its petroleum contents.
Sandborn roofs manufactures the patented sandborn full contact internal floating roof system ifr. As opposed to a fixed roof tank there is no vapor space in the floating roof tank except for very low liquid level situations. Our floating roofs are used by all major oil companies as well as oil storage and pipeline companies because they are safer more cost effective and more environmentally friendly than other floating roof systems.