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3800 Tons! The Largest Pressure Vessel In Asia Was Shipped Smoothly At Watts Base In Qidong, Jiangsu

2021/3/6


On the morning of March 6, 2021, the Asia's largest 3,800-ton raffinate tower, jointly manufactured by China Petroleum First Construction Co., Ltd.and Jiangsu Watts Energy & Engineering Co., Ltd., was successfully delivered at Watts Energy loadout jetty. The leaders of Guangdong Petrochemical, China Petroleum First Construction and Watts Energy witnessed this exciting moment at the scene!

 

It is understood that the raffinate tower delivered this time is the core equipment of the 2.6 million tons/year aromatics combinedplant of Guangdong Petrochemical. It will be shipped to the Dananhai Petrochemical Industrial Zone in Jieyang, Guangdong Province for overall hoisting. It will be combined with other equipment in the plant area. Matching, desorb the p-xylenefrom the adsorbent, and separate the raffinate through rectification at the same time. The tower is about 117 meters high, with a maximum outer diameter of 14.09 meters, a maximum wall thickness of 145 mm, a net weight of 3940 tons, atransfer weight of about 4370 tons, and a hydrostatic test weight of 16,600 tons. It is the heaviest steel petrochemical tower in Asia.

 

The project started in August 2020. In order to ensure timely and high-quality delivery within a very tight construction period, the project team innovatively adopted the method of prefabrication in sections,overall assembly of the assembly platform, and overall completion. Before the start of the project, several design, production, quality and other departments have been organized to conduct program discussions, and a detailed manufacturing program and quality and safety assurance measures have been formed. During the manufacturing process, 11 key technologies including super-large tower circumferential submerged arc welding technology, large-diameter thick-walled cylinder section hydraulic jacking technology, and equipment cylinder automatic opening technology were used to ensure the smooth implementation of the project.

 

Watts Energy is a young and innovative energy equipment manufacturer. So far, it has built a series of high-quality petroleum refininglarge reactors and pressure vessels for domestic and foreign petrochemical and engineering companies, which are used in vacuum distillation, catalytic cracking, and hydro cracking. Catalytic reforming equipment, more than 200 sets of various types of pressure vessels and towers have been delivered. The products are widely used in Zhejiang Petrochemical, Hengli Petrochemical, Hengyi Petrochemical and other integrated refining and chemical projects!

 

The smooth delivery of the raffinate tower set a new record for pressure vessel products at Watts Energy base, and demon strated the outstanding product realization capabilities of the China Petroleum First Construction-Watts Energy Petrochemical Equipment Manufacturing Base. As a new base for China Petroleum First Construction to set sail to the sea, we will uphold the pioneering spirit, forge ahead, and bring more and better pressure vessel products to the petrochemical industry!

 

 

Further reading

With the development of the domestic refining and chemical industry in recent years, the scale of refining and chemical equipment has continued to expand, and the specifications of refining and chemical equipment have become larger and larger, and they are required to be more reliable under harsh working conditions. As pressure vessels become larger and heavier, the processing capacity and product quality requirements of pressurevessel manufacturers are getting higher and higher.

 

Large-scale pressure vessels are usually manufactured by prefabrication in the factory and integrated on-site welding. However, there are problems in the on-site quality assurance system, the construction is greatly affected by environmental conditions, the equipment is incomplete, and the construction site is usually narrow. This has caused many on-site construction Difficult, factory manufacturing effectively avoids the disadvantages of on-site construction, and is more conducive to improving product quality, reducing costs and shortening the construction period.

 

Due to the significant advantages of the overall manufacturing of the pressure vessel factory, the owners also tend to choose the overall manufacturing of the factory when the transportation and hoisting capacity permits. In recent years, more and more refining and chemical companies, including Hengli Petrochemical, Zhejiang Petrochemical, Hainan Petrochemical, etc. When bidding for super large pressure vessels, enterprises require the entire factory to be manufactured. If the manufacturer does not have the ability to manufacture super large pressure vessels, it will lose a large amount of the market. In this regard, large pressure vessel manufacturers are concerned about the unit weight of equipment exceeding 1,000 tons. The manufacturing technology of large pressure vessels, especially the overall manufacturing technology of the factory, is paying more and more attention.

 

China Petroleum First Construction Co., Ltd. undertook the manufacturing task of the raffinate tower of the 2.6 million tons/year aromatics combined plant of Guangdong Petrochemical in November 2019. The equipment specifications are Φ13800/Φ12500/Φ9900× 116075×145/100/90/75 ,Material Q345R, its maximum nominal inner diameter is 13.8 meters, the maximum wall thickness is 145 mm, and the net weight of the equipment has reached 3940tons. It is currently the largest tower in Asia. The contract requires the equipment factory to be manufactured and transported as a whole. The manufacturing processes of this equipment, such as blanking spheronization,butt welding, post-welding heat treatment, pressure test and hoisting and transportation, are different from ordinary pressure vessels. We have a comprehensive grasp of the manufacturing technology of such super-large pressure vessels and successfully completed the raffinate tower. Manufacturing tasks can enhance the company's pressure vessel manufacturing capacity and expand the company's survival and development space.


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