HYUNDAI DEVELOPS INDEPENDENT LNG TANK

摘要

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), Ulsan, Korea, has developed an independent liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tank model, the Lobe-Bundle Tank. The plan is to build pilot LNG storage tanks and acquire general approval from ClassNK by 2013. The tank's technology meets IMO standards requiring high-level of structural analysis and fatigue/ fracture analysis for Type B independent LNG storage tanks. Additionally, the Lobe-Bundle Tank had won Approval in Principle from Japanese classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) last June.