Carbon Dioxide: Cryogenic Storage Requirements

The carbon dioxide (CO2) industry predominantly contains the product as a liquid under pressure, making it feasible to package, transport, and market for consumption. Some decades ago, the product was often delivered into high pressure stationary customer storage vessels for merchant use – and the hazardous fallout sometimes resulted in explosions of these vessels.

Since this precarious history with high pressure vessels, polyurethane insulated storage vessels were developed, with refrigeration units. The early metallurgy is no longer used in today’s construction of storage tanks for the industry…