Floating Suction Unit

floating suction unit

  • Single or double arm design
  • Designed for horizontal or vertical above or underground storage tanks
  • To draw of clear product near the top of the liquid level to provide constant high product quality without additional filtering
  • Used as a drain system for floating roofs
  • Industry sectors: storage tank farms in the petrochemical and chemical industry, aviation fuel storage tank farms
  • Sizes of 2” to 24 “
  • Materials: Aluminium, stainless steel, specialty alloys
  • State of the art swivel joint technologies & designs to suit each application
  • Accessories for improved handling and to monitor the FSU during operation

Swivel Joints

  • Various models available to suite the service
  • Single race or dual race
  • Single split flange, dual split flange
  • Hardened raceways
  • Stainless steel, Carbon steel, Aluminium, Special alloys as above
  • All “Styles”

Floating Suction Unit

  • Single arm design for big tank diameter and small tank height
  • Double arm design for small tank diameter and big height
  • Single arm design with raiser pipe for horizontal tanks
  • Multiple arm design for drainage of floating roofs
  • Special designs like “single parallel design” for high flow rate on request
  • Design in accordance to the AIR BP Spec MECH 73

Capabilities include

  • Onsite service, commissioning and training
  • FAT, SAT
  • Certified by TUV as ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45000:2018, PED: CE and AD 2000-Merkblatt HP0/DIN EN ISO 3834-2
  • Certified TIG and MIG welding
  • Robotic welding
  • CNC profile cutting
  • In-house hydro test, X-ray, dye penetrate, shot blast and painting
  • In-house CNC machining
  • In-house swivel joint testing
  • 3D modelling for design and detailing
  • Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)