OREANDA-NEWS. November 10, 2014. Works are underway on installation of coke drums manufactured by JSC "Volgogradneftemash" at the TANECO Complex delayed coker.

"SOPiG" has installed as per normal   two of the four coke drums in the design position. "Liebherr" cranes of lifting capacity 750 and 600 tons were used to change the position of the vessels from horizontal to vertical and install them on a postament.

Lifting of the multi-tonnage equipment has been performed in accordance with the work execution project developed and approved by the experts of the Construction Projects Implementation Department of JSC TATNEFT and the installation company "SOPiG". The mass of each drum is 251 tons, height - 32.63 m and diameter is 8.63 m.

Feed components decomposition processes through heat emissions accumulated by the feed stream in the furnaces take place in the coking drums. The thermal cracking process results in the formation of solid petroleum coke, which will be used as fuel for power generation at "Nizhnekamsk CHP" (part of TATNEFT Group of Companies).

The design feed rate of the delayed coker feedstock will be 2 million tons per year. After complete commissioning of this installation the conversion depth of crude oil processing at the TANECO Complex will increase to 92 percent.