Matthew Myers from Square Robot shares how new technology can keep tanks in service for longer. Everyone with an above-ground storage tank (AST) recognises the challenges associated with tank inspections. The traditional method of taking a tank out-of-service only to perform a magnetic flux leakage (MFL) inspection can be a major burden on facilities, operations, and the teams managing tanks. Venting, cleaning, and blasting the bottom floor, just for an inspection, can leave a tank out of service (OOS) for months while costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost opportunity. What if there was a better way? A way […]
