【Major Industrial Equipment in the Chemical Industry】17.9-meter-diameter quench oil tower for Tianjin Nangang ethylene plant, 2005–2022
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This post was last edited by Desert Fish on 2022-8-24 08:41. The quench oil tower for the Tianjin Nangang project, transported by Sinopec Shipping Company, was successfully delivered and installed in place. The quench oil tower has a diameter of 17.9 meters and a total weight of 1,500 tons. The successful transportation of this tower to the site marks the completion of the delivery of all six large towers that are essential to the 120 tons per year ethylene production facility in the Nangang Ethylene Project.
How high is this duct tunnel reserved to be?
Transportation of the quench oil tower is carried out on a door-to-door basis. Loading took place at the Nantong Rongsheng Heavy Industry Wharf on July 29; affected by Typhoon Sander, the journey lasted 10 days and covered 875.3 nautical miles, before the vessel successfully arrived at the Tianjin Nangang General Port on August 9. With the policy support of the Nan Gang Management Committee and Tianjin Dagang Customs, as well as the full assistance of the Dagang Maritime Bureau and the port company, the quench oil tower was successfully unloaded from the ship and brought ashore at 1:18 on August 10.
Wow, 17.9 meters in diameter, which is equivalent to 5 to 6 stories tall.
This design and construction organization are highly unreasonable, causing considerable inconvenience to production operations. 1. Since it was known that equipment up to 18 meters in height would need to be transported, why wasn’t a dedicated passage for large-scale shipments prepared, with construction carried out later? 2. The outer pipe gallery in the ethylene project area is usually 12 to 14 meters high; in order to create a passage for transporting large equipment, the entire gallery was raised by 6 meters suddenly. This not only increased the volume of work required but also led to a series of changes in the pressure and flow rate of the media flowing within the gallery over the next few decades ； 3. Pipeline corridor inspections introduce additional challenges.