8 min readAre you engineering chilled water or heating water system that needs additional volume in the circuit? A practical solution is to incorporate a buffer tank into the system. Or perhaps you’re looking to buy a buffer tank for a chilled or heating water system you are installing.
In the old days, you would have to engage a pressure vessel engineer to firstly draw up what you needed. Then you would dial up your local steel fabricator and fax or deliver to him the certified drawing of what you needed.
Steel fabricators are mostly busy on their machines, so time was needed before you would hear back from him with a price. The time and cost involved to just get a price were frustrating. Lead times would often blow out too.
Once the tank was delivered to the...