They are used in many industrial applications for chemical, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, recreational and oil and fuel processes, and they are also often found in conjunction with well systems that supply water to residential homes or buildings. Read More…
Leading Manufacturers
Midwest Imperial Steel Fabricators, LLC
Oak Lawn, IL | 800-282-1574If you are looking for innovative pressure vessels, you’ve come to the right place! We actively manage your project every step of the way. We keep you informed of what we are doing to ensure we keep up to your standards and delivery times.
Gladwin Tank Mfg., Inc.
Gladwin, MI | 989-426-4768Gladwin Tank Manufacturing specializes in custom designed and built ASME tanks and ASME jacketed weldments of any shape or size made from carbon steel, stainless, duplex and nickel alloys.
Rexarc International
West Alexandria, OH | 877-739-2721Rexarc is the global leader in acetylene gas plant production, and is trusted in over 50 countries around the world with the generation, purification, and compression of the highly volatile gas. We have the knowledge, attitude, equipment, and processes to support your needs in the vessel production. We also offer value added services of piping, instrumentation, paint, and other controls integration.
Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Stoystown, PA | 814-893-5701Established in 1946, our pressure vessels provide storage for a wide range of industrial, commercial, residential, and agricultural applications including: fleet vehicle fueling, indoor lift machinery, farm heating, crop drying, standby electric generation and residential heating, cooling, hot water, ranges, clothes dryers, fireplaces, heat pumps, and swimming pools.
Buckeye Fabricating Company
Springboro, OH | 800-688-9821Buckeye Fabricating has been an industry leader in the fabrication of custom pressure vessels since 1963. We understand that pressure vessels can be hazardous, so our products are thoroughly inspected and tested from start to finish. We manufacture numerous tanks and vessels that are used in a variety of applications and industries, such as Water Treatment, Pulp and Paper, and Oil and Gas, among others.
Imperial Industries Incorporated
Rothschild, WI | 800-558-2945At Imperial Industries, we’ve been designing and manufacturing specialized storage solutions for more than 40 years – constantly evolving to meet the changing needs of your industry. That dedication to growing alongside our valued customers has allowed us to advance from a maker of agricultural feed bins into the industry leader in manufacturing industrial dry bulk storage tanks as well as vacuum sanitation tanks, trucks, replacement parts and accessories.
Pressure Tanks - Gladwin Tank Mfg., Inc.Pressure tanks are important utilities in all kinds of contexts. The stability of pressure tanks is important as they must maintain a working pressure sufficient enough to prevent loss of air or vapor to the atmosphere. As with all pressurized containment vessels, there are important safety concerns as even a slight crack or surface flaw or leak could cause a serious explosion, fire or shrapnel discharge.
This could be further complicated depending on the properties of the substance within the tank. Pressure tanks are manufactured according to the strict standards and codes established by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). ASME tanks or pressure vessels meet the quality requirements for design, manufacturing and maintenance, and undergo periodical inspection to ensure they are optimally safe.
Pressure Tanks - Gladwin Tank Mfg., Inc.Examples of pressure tank uses include: diving cylinders or other gas cylinders for medical, industrial and chemical processes, recompression chambers, road vehicle airbrake reservoirs, nuclear reactor vessels, autoclaves and to power air tools.
Material choice for pressure tanks is important due to the stress and potential high temperatures the vessels will be under as some materials react better to extreme temperatures than others. They are typically made of steel because of its strength, durability and capacity to maintain structural conditions even under impact.
For sanitary processes such as medical or food processing applications, stainless steel is often used as it is easy to clean. Other materials used include: carbon fibers, high strength polymers and other metals such as titanium, zirconium, aluminum and nickel. Depending on the intended application of the pressure vessel, it can be lined with a metal, ceramic material, polymers or rubber.
This gives added leak prevention and helps maintain the structure of the cylinder. Other components of pressure tank design are also dependent on the intended application of the vessel and the substance it is to contain. These factors will help to determine the specifics of material, size, shape, temperature range and ideal pressure level.
Pressure tanks are typically measured in gallons and can range from a capacity of 5 gallons to a capacity of several thousand gallons, but regardless of size, the most stable design for a pressure vessel is a cylindrical tank.