Re: Fields

From: <Paul>
Date: Fri Oct 01 1999 - 08:58:00 EDT

Jack Foster wrote:

> Marine is a definite separate category. It is the hardest design work I
> ever did. Anybody can design a plant in the middle of a 40 acre field. But
> the boat is only so big and it all has to fit. I learned a lot from
> designing a 175 ft Coast Guard buoy tender. All done in 3D. Jack Foster.

Cold box piping (for cryogenic distillation) is similar since the columns, exchangers, piping and valves must all fit into a shop-built unit and be shipped intact by schnabel. Very large ones *can* be built onsite, but it's a pain to do.

In the small picture at <http://www.pipingdesign.com/O2plant.html> you can see a main column box (white rectangular structure in the background) and an exchanger box to the left (almost totally obscured behind the right-most building).

I'll try to dig up a better photo or a drawing and put it up at the website.

Paul

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