Additional tank
An additional tank is a fuel tank that is attached to or in motor vehicles or aircraft in addition to the main tank . The additional tank is usually used to increase the amount of fuel carried in order to increase the period between two refueling processes and so z. B. to increase the range . Transfer tanks in civil aircraft can also be carried in the cabin and transported to save space after emptying. Because of the great flexibility, these tanks can e.g. B. can also be accommodated in the floats of seaplanes .
There are also additional tanks that can be filled with other types of fuel. So z. B. in motor vehicles that are operated with vegetable oil, driven in the starting phase with diesel fuel and only later switched to vegetable oil.
Additional tanks can be permanently attached to the vehicle (e.g. vegetable oil tank) or designed such that they can be dropped (e.g. on airplanes or earlier Russian tanks).
See also
- Drop tank for aircraft
- Conformal fuel tank
