An Air Receiver Tank is a closed container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure substantially different from the ambient pressure.

Shape of a pressure vessel

Air Receiver tanks can theoretically be almost of any shape, but shapes made of sections of spheres, cylinders, and cones are usually employed. A common design is a cylinder with end caps called heads. Head shapes are frequently either hemispherical or dished (torispherical). More complicated

shapes have historically been much harder to analyze for safe operation and are usually far more difficult to construct.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uses

Air Receiver tanks are used in a variety of applications in both industry and the private sector. They appear in these sectors as industrial compressed air receivers and domestic hot water storage tanks. Other examples of these are diving cylinders, recompression chambers, distillation towers, pressure reactors, autoclaves, and many other vessels in mining operations, oil refineries and petrochemical plants, nuclear reactor vessels, submarine and space ship habitats, pneumatic reservoirs, hydraulic reservoirs under pressure, rail vehicle airbrake reservoirs, road vehicle airbrake reservoirs, and storage vessels for liquefied gases such as ammonia, chlorine, propane, butane, and LPG.