The
ADNOC Ruwais Refinery, located in Al Ruwais, 240km west of Abu Dhabi city,
is one of the largest refineries of petrochemicals in the world with a
capacity of more than 800,000 barrels-per-day. The Magnetic Drive pumps
were required on an aggressive 28-week delivery with urgent site installation
for an upgrade project to the ADIP tanks for the Ruwais natural gas liquid
(NGL) trains 1 and 2.
Amarinth has successfully
delivered hundreds of bespoke pumps on short lead times to ADNOC over the
last 15 years and so when these Magnetic Drive pumps for the NGL trains
at the Ruwais refinery were required, ADNOC has no hesitation in placing
the order with Amarinth. This order calls for two API 685 2nd Edition OH2
horizontal and three VS4 vertical Magnetic Drive pumps, some of which will
be operational whilst others remain as standby units.
Magnetic Drive pumps
are often used where leakage of the pumped fluid poses a great risk, such
as with aggressive or toxic liquids. In a Magnetic Drive pump, a hermetically
sealed housing contains any process fluid in a closed system and the power
transmission occurs contact-free through magnets from the drive shaft to
the process wetted output shaft, negating the need for any seal support
system. Amarinth will incorporate bespoke instrumentation on the API 685
OH1 and VS4 pumps, including temperature alarms and vibration monitors
within the magnetic drive containment shell.
Oliver Brigginshaw,
Managing Director of Amarinth, commented: “We are delighted with this
latest order from ADNOC. Although we have supplied hundreds of API 610
pumps to ADNOC over the years, this is both the first order from ADNOC
for our API 685 Magnetic Drive pumps. We look forward to fulfilling this
order and delivering against the tight lead times required of this contract.” |