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We are manufacturer of Horton spheres for storage of LPG, Propane, Ammonia, Ethylene and
other gases as per ASME Sec.VIII Div. 1 and 2, PD 5500 and other international codes. We Contact us
have in-house design department, which is capable of designing Spheres with international
codes such as ASME, PD 5500, DIN. The volume range from 200 m3 to 5000 M3. The Spheres BNH Gas Tanks
are provided with all accessories like safety fittings, valves, pipelines, Excess flow valves, B-23, Maya Nagari, Dapodi, Pune - 411012,
internal valves as per requirement. The above photographs shown manufacturing of LPG sphere Maharashtra, India.
consisting of various activities like Pressing of plates at shop, Pre fabrication of Equator and Phone: +91-20-30686720 / 21 / 22
crown plates, Legs or columns for sphere, Radiography welding, NDT testing, Erection at site, Mobile: +91-9823616678, 9822076167
Hydrotesting and coating of LPG spheres.
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Technical Specification:
Design Code : ASME, PD 5500, AD Merkbaltter and others.
Design Pressure : 17.16 Bar
Design Temperature : -20 Deg C to + 55 Deg C
Volume : 500 M3 to 8500 M3

LPG SPHERES
Horton sphere are used by many industries, including oil, gas, petrochemical, chemical and Other products:
aerospace. They are ideal for ambient temperature liquid; low-temperature liquid; cryogenic
• AMMONIA
liquid and gas storage. They also can be used as processing, testing, containment, surge and Ammonia Gas Cylinder
vacuum vessels or hyperbaric chambers or environmental chambers. Anhydrous Ammonia Container
Ammonia Rail Tank
Typical Horton sphere vessel applications include: Ammonia Sphere
Ambient Temperature Liquid Storage — Spheres designed for liquid storage can contain a Ammonia Spherical Tank
Ammonia Storage Tank
variety of products such as gasoline, anhydrous ammonia, naphtha, LPG, NGL, butadiene and Anhydrous Ammonia Tank
water. Typical capacities range from 1,000–75,000 barrels. Ammonia Transport Semitrailer
Low Temperature Liquid Storage — Low-temperature liquid Horton spheres offer an
economical, partial-refrigeration solution for storing products such as LPG. These spheres • BUTANE GAS
feature single walls and external insulation. Butane Gas Tank
Cryogenic Temperature Liquid Storage — Spheres designed for cryogenic storage can be Butane Storage Tanks
used to store products such as ethylene, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, argon and LNG. These
• CHLORINE GAS
spheres feature double walls with an evacuated, perlite-filled annular space. Chlorine Gas Tank
Gas Storage — Horton sphere vessels can store large quantities of compressed gases, such
as hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, lpg, helium and argon. They also are used to store digester gas • CO2
at sewage treatment plants or to store biogas at landfills. Carbon Dioxide Gas Tank
CO2 Gas Tanks
Introduction :- CO2 Generation Plant
CO2 Liquid Tanker
We BNH Gas Tanks are manufacturer and exporter of LPG HORTON SPHERE, LPG Horton
CO2 Recovery Plant
(Spherical) Tanks at cheap cost. LPG Horton Sphere volumes range from 500 M3 to 9500 M3 CO2 Storage Tank
are suitable for Butane, Propane, Ammonia as well as Butane - Propane mixtures i.e. LPG. Liquid CO2 Transport Tankers
Liquid Carbon Dioxide Tanks
The LPG Spherical tanks are designed as per Liquid CO2 Tank
ASME Sec. VIII Div.1, Vacuum Insulated Liquid CO2 Tanks
ASME Sec. VIII Div.2
BS 5500, • ETHYLENE GAS
Ethylene Gas Tank
Codap 2000, Ethylene Tank
AS 1210 and other international codes. Ethylene Oxide Tank

We have executed storage facility including Mechanical, Civil, Piping, Instrumentation and • FUEL TANKS
Electrical. Fixed Roof Tank
We BNH Gas Tanks undertake the Project Execution on LSTK / EPCC (Engineering, Floating Roof Tank
Petroleum Vessels
Procurement, Construction & Commissioning) basis.

The scope of EPCC Contracts includes: • GPL GAS

GPL Gas Tanks
• Design and Detailed Engineering GPL Reservoirs
• Fabrication, Testing, Procurement, Erection, of Piping and Spherical tanks.
• Safety measures like Fire Fighting etc. • HYDROGEN GAS
• Supply and Installation Hydrogen Gas Vessel
• Ground Improvement & Civil works
• Electrical and Instrumentation work • IMO TANK
IMO 7 Tank
IMO Tank
Total Project Commissioning for Horton Sphere:
IMO Tank Container
• Ammonia Sphere - 4 x 5000 cum. meter
• LPG Sphere - 4 x 8500 cum. • ISO TANK
• LPG Horton Sphere - 4 x 1500 m3 ISO Tank
• LPG Sphere - 4 x 4200 cum
• Ammonia Spherical Tank - 5 x 2500 m3 • LIQUID GAS
• Propane Sphere - 5 x 3000 cum. Liquid Gas Tank
Oil And Gas Storage Tank
• LPG Horton Sphere - 2 x 2000 cum.
Gas Tank Installation

We use various international design codes for designing of LPG Sphere as follows: • LPG
PD 5500: Specification for unfired Fusion welded pressure vessels Bulk LPG Storage Tanks
EEMUA: Guide for design, construction and use mounded horizontal cylindrical vessels for Liquefied Petroleum Gas Tank
pressurized storage of LPG at ambient temperatures LPG Bobtail
EEMUA 190: Selection criteria LPG storage systems LPG Bulk Installation
LPG Bullets
ASME sec. VIII Div. 1 and 2
LPG Carousel Plant
LPG Cylinder
Material of construction: LPG Cylinder Manufacturer
• SA 537 CL 1, LPG Tender
• SA 516 GR 70, LPG Filling Plant

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• BS 1501-1 225 490 A, LPG Gas Plant

• EN 10028-3 P355NL2 AND OTHERS LPG Gas Tank
LPG Equipment
LPG Horton Sphere
Safety Design Features: LPG ISO Container
• Concept of a Single nozzle in the liquid Zone. LPG Mounded Bullets
• Remote operated fire-safe emergency shut off valves LPG Mounded Vessels
• Sloping and elongating the liquid nozzle. LPG Semi Trailer
• Redundancy of level instruments LPG Spheres
LPG Spherical Tank
• Manhole at top of sphere. LPG Storage Tanks
• Insulation / fireproofing of sphere & supports. LPG Bottling Plant
• Paving and sloping of diking / impounding / ground underneath LPG Tank Farm
• Gas / fire detection, deluge and sprinkler system. LPG Terminal
Used LPG Bobtail
Advantages / Comparison of LPG Sphere and LPG Mounded Bullets Used LPG Storage Tank
Cheap LPG Storage Tank
Used LPG Tank
IS MOUNDED BULLET FOR STORING LPG IS BETTER THAN USING LPG Port Facility
SPHERE? AND WHY? LPG Gas Price

The choice between a bullet and a sphere is a matter of economics and project logistics. So one • NITROGEN
is better than the other only in the matter of which has a cheaper overall installed cost. Liquid Nitrogen Tank
Nitrogen Gas Tank
The sphere of course uses less material than a bullet for the same amount of liquid storage but LNG Storage Tanks
is somewhat more difficult to fabricate. The diameter for shipping of a storage tank is in the Nitrous Oxide Gas Tank
order of 10 to 14 feet depending on the method of transport. This would limit a sphere's
storage capacity if it is shop fabricated. For a 10 foot diameter tank, you can get 10 or more • SURGE VESSELS
times the storage in a bullet than a sphere. For this reason, you usually only see spheres used Surge Vessels
for very large volumes (maybe in the order of 300,000 gallons or more) because they must be
field fabricated to compete with the bullet in cost. For smaller storage tanks, the bullets are • OXYGEN
Oxygen Gas Tank
preferred because they can be shop fabricated and more easily transported.
• PROPANE
COMPARISION OF LPG SPHERES WITH LPG STORAGE TANKS: Propane Underground Tanks
Propane Spheres
1) Least initial investment and financial risk in case of LPG multiple storage tanks of as Propane Spherical Tanks
Propane Storage Tank
compared to sphere of similar or larger volume.
Used Propane Tank

2) LPG sphere of same volume needs more time for construction as compared to LPG multiple • PROPYLENE GAS
storage tanks. Propylene Gas Tank
Propylene Oxide Tanks
3) LPG Multiple LPG storage tanks makes the project faster, economical, easier and will in turn Propylene Storage Tanks
help the company to start the terminal as soon as possible which in turn will generate good Propylene Tank
immediate returns.
• SYN GAS
4) LPG Storage tanks are much safer since it weight is distributed evenly on a larger area thus Syn Gas Tank
Coal Bedded Methane Gas Tank
reducing chances of collapse as compared to sphere, especially in small islands porne to earth
quakes, cyclones and Tsunami as can be verified from the recent incident in Japan where a row • ARGON TANKS
of LPG sphere went under severe fire condition. Argon Tanks

5) Multiple LPG storage tanks have an added advantage that the load is distributed over a • CNG STORAGE TANKS
larger area thus the problem of uneven settlement / collapse is largely reduced. CNG Storage Tanks

6) In case of installations with Multiple LPG storage tanks if there is any problem / • DESALINATION PLANTS
maintenance / repair / breakdown of any one tank the outlet and inlet valves of the same can Lime Stone Filter Tanks
be closed and the tank can be isolated, also in case of emergency the LPG product in the tank
under repair / maintenance can be easily transferred to another tank located in the same plant
thus increasing safety of the plant. Whereas in case of sphere if there is any problem with the
sphere or its valves or pipeline the entire plant comes to a stand still (This is a loss to the
company in terms of business loss, product loss, as well as extra demurrage that the company
may have to pay to the shipping company if unfortunately the LPG ship also arrives the same
time when the sphere has generated a possible breakdown). But in case of multiple storage
tanks even if one of the tank generate a possible breakdown and the LPG ship also arrives the
same time still the LPG from the ship can be unloaded to the remaining tanks and the company
will have to incur least loss due to ship demurrage.

7) Though there is a common notion that for the same volume a sphere has the least surface
area and least thickness and hence lesser weight and less cost but our past experience
suggests that weight saved in making a sphere as compared to storage tank is lost as wastage
in the development of various sections (petals and crown) thus leaving little or no benefit of the
weight saved.

8) The fabrication cost increases considerably in case of sphere as compared to multiple LPG
storage tanks , since the sections have to be pre fabricated at shop, shipped to site, adjusted,
assembled and welded at site piece by piece in proper sequence, heat treated, radiographed
and tested at site. Fabrication of sphere requires lot of time since the petals / sections are
required to be assembled piece by piece in proper sequence and completion of one stage is
entirely dependent on completion of the earlier stage as so on and so forth. More over there is
a continuous requirement of close monitoring, blockage of all construction equipments and
manpower till the entire completion of work sequence by sequence, this makes the fabrication
of sphere still more costlier and time consuming as regards to blockage of manpower,
machinery rent etc.

9) Sphere once fabricated cannot be moved or relocated from one place to another and if in
case any relocation (due to sale of plant or plant relocation) is required the sphere has to be
cut into several small pieces and transported to site and then reassembled and re-fabricated at
new site this is as good as manufacturing a brand new sphere at site and hence the after sale
value of a sphere is much less and as compared to lpg storage tanks which can be sold out for
good returns.

What methods to be used in Horton Sphere inspection & why?

Horton sphere needs various testing methods to be adopted before put to use , The various test
include NDT tests like
Ultra sonics tests to determine thickness or wear
Radiography to inspect welds and joints
Hardness testing like Brinell or Rockwell hardness test to determine if the hardness of steel
shell
Impact test to determine strength of steel at low temperature at MDMT
Dye Penetrant test to inspect welds and joints
Magentic Florecent test to inspect welds and joints
MPI for steel
Chemical and Physical analysis of sphere steel material in laboratory
And others as per code requirement

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