Floating Roof Gas Holder

Floating gas holders can be made of steel fiberglass or a flexible fabric.

Floating roof gas holder.

They have a perimeter rim skirt that provides the necessary gas to air seal which allows the storage of biogas. A gas holder provided storage for the purified metered gas. Similar to floating covers. However they are designed to accommodate gas storage as well as digester drawdown.

Gas holders hold a large advantage over other methods of storage. Structural stability is provided by l bar bracing that also serves to break up surface scum when the drum is rotated. The floating roof is a circular steel structure provided with a built in buoyancy which allowing it to sit float on top of the liquid product in a close or open top tank. The outer cylindrical shell was similar in appearance to other gasholders although these gasholders were taller and thinner.

The floating roof gasholder allowed for a very simplified system where by which the only moving part was the piston. The gasholder cover which floats on digester gas rather than on the liquid surface is equipped with a skirt that extends below the liquid surface to contain gas. The piston was able to rise and fall by means of guide rollers. Floating roof holders the floating roof gasholder allowed for a very simplified system where by which the only moving part was the piston.

Steel floating dome roof on top of the digester with the biogas from the digestion process being contained under the digester roof usually of mild steel which could rise or fall depending on gas production and demand much as the old town gas gas holders used to rise and fall with the passage of night and day. A separate tank may be used with a floating gas holder for the storage of the digestate and also storage of the raw biogas. Most floating drum gas holders are made of 2 4 mm thick sheet steel with the sides made of thicker material than the top in order to compensate for the higher degree of corrosive attack. It acted as a buffer removing the need for continuous gas production.

The piston was able to rise and fall by means of guide rollers. The weight of the gas holder lift cap controlled the pressure of the gas in the mains and provided back pressure for the gas making plant. A separate gas holder is necessary for fixed cover designs.