Tank farm for petrochemicals
The Friesenheim Island section of BASF’s Verbund site in Ludwigshafen is home to 50 tanks that supply the production facilities with feedstocks. The tanks have a combined total capacity of around 350 million liters of petrochemicals such as butane, benzene and naphtha.
A chemical technician inspects the positive and negative pressure valves on the roof of a tank.