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Engineering ToolBox > Oil Tanks and Heat Loss
Heat loss from sheltered and exposed, lagged and unlagged oil tanks can be found in the table below:
| Heat loss (W/m.K) (Btu/hr.ft2.oF) | Oil temperature | |||
| up to 10 oC up to 50 oF | 10 - 27 oC 50 - 80 oF | 27 - 38 oC 80 - 100 oF | ||
| Unlagged | Sheltered | 6.8 1.2 | 7.4 1.3 | 8.0 1.4 |
| Exposed | 9.0 1.4 | 8.5 1.5 | 9.0 1.6 | |
| Lagged | Sheltered | 1.7 0.3 | 1.8 0.33 | 2.0 0.35 |
| Exposed | 2.0 0.35 | 2.1 0.38 | 2.25 0.4 | |