What are the tank bodies?
Tank car material commonly used in three kinds: carbon steel, 304 stainless steel, aluminum alloy.Carbon steel is the most conventional, but also the lowest cost, the domestic more than 90% of the tank car materials are carbon steel.
Aluminum Alloy material price is high, the processing difficulty is big, but because of the weight ratio of carbon steel and stainless steel light, made out of the tanker is not overweight is not overloaded, but also can reduce vehicle fuel consumption, is the main development direction of future tanker.Therefore, the most suitable material for the tank is aluminum alloy.
304 stainless steel because its price is about 4 times of ordinary carbon steel, so the price is too high, very few people use. But the advantage is that when the tank is scrapped, the residual value is higher than that of the carbon steel.
