Patent ID: 11920784
Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Field: Environmental technology (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 0:
1. A processing facility comprising:
a source of flare gas;
a flare gas recovery system; and
a flare gas storage system made up of flare gas storage units that each comprise,
a vessel comprising, a resilient member, an outer shell made from a flexible material that is supported on the resilient member, and
a pressure system that is selectively changeable between an extended configuration and a retracted configuration, and when in the extended configuration the vessel is in a compressed configuration,
wherein the resilient member expands from the compressed configuration to a free configuration when the pressure system is in the retracted configuration, and wherein the vessel comprises lateral sidewalls that are undulated when in the compressed configuration, and wherein the lateral sidewalls are generally linear and without undulations when ion the free configuration.