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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2010
Jacques Dhellemmes, Versailles, FR;
Pierre Michalski, Le Havre, FR;
Vincent Fargant, Rochefort en Yvelines, FR;
Jacques Dhellemmes, Versailles, FR;
Pierre Michalski, Le Havre, FR;
Vincent Fargant, Rochefort en Yvelines, FR;
Gaztransport et Technigaz, Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, FR;
Abstract
Sealed, thermally insulated tank has tank walls fixed to the load-bearing structure () of a floating structure, the tank walls having, in succession, in the direction of the thickness from the inside to the outside of the tank, a primary sealing barrier (), a primary insulating barrier (), a secondary sealing barrier () and a secondary insulating barrier (), at least one of the insulating barriers includes juxtaposed non-conducting elements, each non-conducting element including a thermal insulation liner () and load-bearing elements that rise through the thickness of the thermal insulation liner in order to take up the compression forces, characterized in that the load-bearing elements of a non-conducting element include pillars () of small transverse section as compared to the dimensions of the non-conducting element in a plane parallel to the tank wall.