PROCESS STRUCTURE OF THE REFINERY - PTU ``NESTE SINGAPORE Pte Ltd``
Neste, a global leader producing renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, invested €1.5b to expand the production capacity of its Singapore refinery by 2023. The construction of the project started at the beginning of 2019.
Our partner “SOFMAN”, is a well-experienced company in the field of heavy industry, participated in the project with the design, fabrication, hot dip galvanization and transportation of 3,700tons of steel structures.
The most noteworthy and highly demanding part of our scope was the fabrication of the Process Structure of the refinery – PTU.
The structure was 2,500 tons, covered by 2,700 sqm roofing and 6,000 sqm side mineral wool panels ,including 6.500 sqm of grating floors.
It is worth mentioning that the major challenges of the PTU structure were the need for high accuracy in the stage of detailing due to the high volume of installed machinery between our structure and also the action under a well-thought-out schedule.
POSITION
We cooperate with the design department of SOFMAN, as we were awarded with the scope of the steel connection design. Our main concern was not only the calculation design of the steel connections but also the BIM interaction in terms of clash check with all the mechanical equipment. We create a full detailed Tekla Structures model (LOD500), in which all the design team had access through the model sharing process of Trimble.
