DISCUS eliminates pontoons
Safety in general terms is identifying potential risk, then managing that risk by mitigation or preferably elimination.
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Managing enclosed flotation compartments on aluminum internal floating roofs (AIFRs) which are well known to leak is a matter of mitigation. As an obvious threat to safety, and in order to guarantee a safe, gas free work area, every enclosed compartment has to be cautiously and properly checked, carefully purged if hot, and then replaced, since the hot condition was caused by a failure of the component. This mitigation process is dangerous, time consuming, and costly.
The DISCUS OpenRaft™ aluminum internal floating roof (AIFR) has no pontoons or honeycomb, eliminating the safety risk of enclosed flotation compartments.