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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2019
Gaztransport ET Technigaz, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Mickael Herry, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Pierre Charbonnier, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Mohammed Oulalite, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Emmanuel Hivert, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
GAZTRANSPORT ET TECHNIGAZ, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Abstract
A sealed and thermally insulating tank for storing a fluid, the tank being anchored in a load-bearing structure, the tank having a loading/unloading tower suspended from a ceiling wall of the load-bearing structure, the tank having a support foot that is fastened to the load-bearing structure in a zone of a bottom wall of the tank, the support foot being arranged to guide a vertical translational movement of the loading/unloading tower, the tank having at least one sump that is formed in the bottom wall of the tank, the bottom wall of the tank having a corrugated sealing membrane that is intended to be in contact with the fluid having at least first corrugations extending in a first direction and spaced apart from one another, the sump and the support foot are spaced apart by a distance at least three first corrugations pass between the sump and the support foot.