TRACING AND ISOLATING VAPOUR RETURN HEXENE
COMPANY PROFILE
Our customer is one of Europe’s most modern tank terminals. They store and transship a wide range of chemicals and can load trucks, wagons and ships.
THE ASSIGNMENT
The pre-eminent core business at tank terminals is the storage and loading of products. Customers want their products to remain perfectly within specifications and to lose at little product as possible during loading.
However, some products have a low dew point, so the vapour phase condenses easily in colder pipelines. One of these products is hexene.
When loading hexene, the liquid is pumped from the tank to a wagon or a truck. To prevent overpressure in the truck/wagon, the vapour phase is also connected to the tank. Owing to the low dew point of hexene vapours and an unfortunate design of the route followed by the pipelines, a fair amount of product condensed in the pipes. This product then had to be drained off and was lost.
To resolve this problem, the customer asked us to devise a solution whereby we fitted the entire pipeline (+/- 1 km of pipes with varying diameters) with electric tracing and the necessary insulation. We coordinated the entire project.
Planning and aligning the work of various suppliers was the biggest challenge in this project.
RoelandCoördinator Piping
OUR APPROACH
- Carrying out preliminary study
- Contacting the skin contractors about the electrical works, scaffolding, tracing and insulation
- Stakeholder management
- Coordinating the activities in the field
