gunbarrel tank
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the shape of the tank, which is long and cylindrical, like the barrel of a gun.
Noun
[edit]gunbarrel tank (plural gunbarrel tanks)
- A long slender cylindrical metal tank, especially one used to separate oil from water as it flows from a production well.
- 2008, Maurice Stewart, Ken Arnold, Emulsions and Oil Treating Equipment, page 2:
- The gunbarrel tank, sometimes called a wash tank, is the oldest equipment used for multi-well onshore oil treating in a conventional gathering station or tank battery.
- 2011, Michael Vollmer, Klaus-Peter Möllmann, Infrared Thermal Imaging, page 511:
- The technique has been demonstrated for the production of gunbarrel tanks, water storage tanks, oil storage tanks, oil heaters, and production vessels.
- 2011, Maurice Stewart, Ken E. Arnold, Surface Production Operations, Volume 1, page 353:
- The gunbarrel tank is a vertical flow treater in an atmospheric tank.