System description
Installing the outer pipe casing
Routing crossing the motorway below
Positive pressure leak detectors in
BRUGG-STAMANT® Safety Pipe
Safe monitoring of the piping in a fuel depot
The rebuilding of the Horny Hricov Terminal has been under
discussion since 1997, when the first studies on re-routing the
piping from the upper to the lower plant of SLOVNAFT were
carried out. The lower SLOVNAFT plant in the Horny Hricov
Terminal served as a distribution centre for petrol stations
in Central and Eastern Slovakia, while the upper plant was
used as the state material reserve. Following a number of
changes in the SLOVNAFT refinery, the Horny Hricov Terminal
was re-evaluated as the storage facility of the state material
reserves of the Slovak Republic. The necessity to re-route the
piping between the two plants resulted from the extension of
the motorway from Bratislava in the West to Kosice in the East.
This motorway ran over the piping connecting the two plants.
In order not to hinder operations it was necessary to re-route
protective housings
the piping so that the motorway routing would not have to be
taken into consideration in the event of reconstruction work
being needed.
The project consists of 13 lines of BRUGG-STAMANT®
double-walled safety piping laid below the surface. BRUGG
Rohrsysteme GmbH supplied 4,446 m of double-walled piping
and 1,611 m of single-walled piping, with dimensions ranging
from DN 80 to DN 300. Transport media are petrol, crude oil
and gas. DLR-G 8 S positive pressure leak detectors are used.
The piping is in service trouble-free since the installation in 2007.
Miroslav Tomsik
CHEMPROCES
GmbH
Further 811 m of BRUGG-STAMANT®
safety piping delivered
“We got the contract for the SLOVNAFT
project because of already existing
know-how and it was an important ref-
erence in the Slovak Republic. Thanks to
this reference our companies delivered
a further 811 m of BRUGG-STAMANT®
safety piping in th following years for
the project “Port on the Danube” in
Bratislava.
With the need for retrofitting equipment,
two more projects are expected on top
of this within the next three years.”
10.05.2021
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