Tanker
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A tanker is usually a vehicle carrying large amounts of liquid fuel. Vehicles are non-living means of transport. ... For the workstation, see SGI Fuel. ...
The most common use of the word is when referring to a large ship, carrying liquid or liquefied hydrocarbon products, like oil, LPG and LNG. The term chemical tanker is used for those ships specialized in the transport of chemicals, like ammonia and chlorine. Apart from pipeline transport, tankers are the only method of transporting large quantities of oil around the world. The supertanker is also the largest type of ship in the world. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x436, 79 KB)Caption: 030628-N-6077T-003 Central Command Area of Responsibility (Jun. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x436, 79 KB)Caption: 030628-N-6077T-003 Central Command Area of Responsibility (Jun. ... Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York harbor, 1976. ... In chemistry, a hydrocarbon is any chemical compounds that consists only of carbon (C) and hydrogen (H). ... LPG might be an initialism or abbreviation for: Liquified petroleum gas, easily the most common meaning Laboratoire de Planetologie, Grenoble, France Literary Press Group of Canada Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft (German, obsolete/historical) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Liquefied natural gas or LNG is natural gas that has been cooled until it becomes liquid, and it is stored in tanks. ... Ammonia is a chemical compound with the formula NH3. ... General Name, Symbol, Number chlorine, Cl, 17 Chemical series halogens Group, Period, Block 17, 3, p Appearance yellowish green Atomic mass 35. ... An elevated section of the Alaska Pipeline Pipeline transport is a transportation of goods through a tube. ... A supertanker is a tanker ship built to transport very large quantities of liquids, especially crude oil. ...
Such tankers have several times caused large environmental disasters when sinking close to coastal regions, causing oil spills. See Exxon Valdez, Braer, Prestige, Torrey Canyon, Erika, for examples of tankers that have caused oil spills. Volunteers cleaning up the aftermath of the Prestige oil spill An oil spill is the release of oil (generally, petroleum) into the natural environment, usually the ocean. ...
Exxon Valdez was the original name of an oil tanker owned by the Exxon oil company. ...
The Prestige was a oil tanker whose sinking in 2002 off the Spanish coast caused a huge oil spill. ...
The Torrey Canyon was the first of the big supertankers, capable of carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil. ...
The largest tanker in the world is the Knock Nevis, also making it the largest ship in the world as well. The Knock Nevis is a Singapore owned supertanker, formerly known as Seawise Giant, Happy Giant, and Jahre Viking. ...
Tankers used for liquid fuels are classified according to their capacity to carry oil
- LNG, Liquefied Natural Gas, relatively rare carriers for natural gas instead of oil
- VLCC, Very Large Crude Carrier, Over 200,000 metric ton
- SUEZMAX, ship that can pass through the Suez Canal, 125,000 - 200,000 metric ton
- AFRAMAX, Am. Freight Rate Assoc. Size, 80,000 - 125,000 metric ton.
- PANAMAX, ship that can pass through the Panama Canal, 50,000 - 79,000 metric ton
- MR, Medium Range, 38,000 - 50,000 metric ton
- GP, General Purpose, under 38,000 metric ton (possibly outdated name)
In the past the term ULCC, for Ultra Large Crude Carrier of over 300,000 metric ton was also used, and the ????MAX names used to be referred to as varies types of LR, Large Range, such as LR1, LR2, LRC etc. Liquefied natural gas or LNG is natural gas that has been processed to remove impurities and heavy hydrocarbons and then condensed into a liquid at atmospheric pressure by cooling it to approximately -160 degrees centigrade, and stored in specially designed tanks. ... Natural gas rig Natural gas (commonly refered to as gas in many countries) is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane. ... 1881 drawing of the Suez Canal The Suez Canal (Arabic, QanÄ al-Suways), west of the Sinai Peninsula, is a 163-km maritime canal in Egypt between Port Said (BÅ«r SaÄ«d) on the Mediterranean Sea and Suez (al-Suways) on the Red Sea. ... The two ships seen here seem almost to be touching the walls of the Miraflores Locks. ... NASA image of the Panama canal The Panama Canal is 82 kilometers (51 miles) long and cuts through the isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. ...
A tanker is an aircraft used for in-flight refueling. The US Air Force mostly uses converted transport aircraft, such as the KC-135 Stratotanker. The US Navy tends to use smaller aircraft, often converted attack aircraft such as the A-6 Intruder. An aircraft is any machine capable of atmospheric flight. ... Aerial refueling, also called in-flight refueling (IFR) or air-to-air refueling (AAR), is the practice of transferring fuel from one aircraft to another during flight. ... Seal of the Air Force. ... A cargo aircraft, also alternately known as a transport aircraft, is an aircraft dedicated to handling transport of materials and oversized loads. ... The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is an aerial refueling tanker aircraft, first manufactured in 1956 and expected to remain in service into the 2020s. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... A ground attack aircraft is an aircraft that is designed to operate very close to the ground, supporting infantry and tanks directly in battle. ... The Grumman A-6 Intruder is a US attack aircraft. ...
A tanker is any crew member of a main battle tank.
A tanker, in the massive-multiplayer lingo, is a character able to resist or shrug off heavy amounts of damage relatively unharmed. A party with a tanker usually use him as a monster bait -- while he 'takes' the damage, the rest of the party members actually kill the monsters. In some games, a fighter or occasionally thief character will fill this role, while mages attack the monsters. A massively (or massive) multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG is a multiplayer computer role-playing game that enables thousands of players to play in an evolving virtual world at the same time over the Internet. ...
