【Haichuan Chemical Project Update】Eccomex Ethylene Phase 1 Project’s quenching twin towers have been hoisted into place
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Erection of the quench towers for ExxonMobil’s Phase 1 ethylene project completed On December 12, 2022, at 7:57 a.m., the ExxonMobil Phase 1 ethylene project team managed to erect the quench towers successfully within 1 hour and 53 minutes, as planned. The towers are 61.65 meters long, 8.8 meters in diameter, and weigh 1,250.5 tons each. This is another major achievement following the successful installation of the quench oil tower, whose first lifting was completed on the 5th of this month.
On December 5, the hoisting of the first large-scale equipment for the 1.6 million tons per year ethylene plant in Huizhou’s ethylene project – the quench oil tower – was completed successfully, marking the beginning of the equipment installation phase for this project. It is reported that the first quench oil tower has a diameter of 13.5 meters, with the maximum diameter of the pipelines attached to it exceeding 2.6 meters; its total lifting weight is 1,440 tons. It is one of the core equipment in the ethylene plant, and it also represents a key element in the lifting process for the equipment involved in this project. For this lifting operation, a 4,000-ton crawler crane is used as the main lifting device, with a 1,600-ton crawler crane serving as an auxiliary device. Lifting commenced at 9:17 a.m. that day, and with the concerted efforts of all the employees involved, the lifting was successfully completed by 11 a.m., resulting in the tower being erected and the lights turned on.