water tank
Introduction
A water tank (also tinaco in some countries)[1] is a tank intended to store water for human consumption, agriculture or any other use.[2] They are a fundamental element in a drinking water supply network, to compensate for hourly variations in the demand for drinking water.
Since drinking water treatment plants work best with little variation in the treated flow rate, it is best to keep the flow rate approximately constant. The treatment plants are therefore sized so that they can produce the total amount of water that the city or town consumes throughout the day, and the tanks absorb time variations: when there is little consumption (such as at night) they are filled, and when consumption is maximum (such as, for example, when cooking) they are emptied.
Types of tanks
Water tanks, from the point of view of their use, can be:
From the point of view of their location, water tanks can be:
These three types of tanks can have large dimensions, up to several thousand cubic meters.
References
- [1] ↑ «tinaco | Definición | Diccionario de la lengua española | RAE - ASALE».: https://dle.rae.es/?w=tinaco#:~:text=3.%20m.%20Guat.%2C%20Hond.%2C%20M%C3%A9x.%2C%20Nic.%20y%20R.%20Dom.%20Dep%C3%B3sito%20de%20gran%20capacidad%20que%20se%20usa%20para%20almacenar%20agua%20en%20las%20casas.
- [2] ↑ Real Academia Española. «tanque». Diccionario de la lengua española (23.ª edición).: https://dle.rae.es/tanque