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Oil Tanks and Heat Loss
Heat loss from lagged and unlagged, sheltered and exposed oil tanks
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Heat loss from sheltered and exposed, lagged and unlagged oil tanks can be found in the table below:
| Heat loss (W/m.K) (Btu/hr ft2 oF) |
Oil temperature | |||
| up to 10 oC up to 50 oF |
10 - 27 oC 50 - 80 oF |
27 - 38 oC 80 - 100 oF |
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| Unlagged | Sheltered | 6.8 1.2 |
7.4 1.3 |
8.0 1.4 |
| Exposed | 9.0 1.4 |
8.5 1.5 |
9.0 1.6 |
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| Lagged | Sheltered | 1.7 0.3 |
1.8 0.33 |
2.0 0.35 |
| Exposed | 2.0 0.35 |
2.1 0.38 |
2.25 0.4 |
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