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B. PROCESSING (Cont'd.) Fuel Oil from distillation units is used to feed a new Bitumen Unit, built by Tarmac and comissioned on 1.1.1968, to produce 28,000 MT/year of 80/100 penetration Bitumen. Storage of the Refinery crude oil is provided by a 12,350 Metric Ton capacity tank of the Terminal Tank Farm, Eight other tanks of the Terminal Tank Farm have boon also used to store products (Fuel Oil, Gas Oil and Benzine) with a total capacity of 93,785 Metric Tons. The above is additional to the Refinery's own tank farm for crude oil, unfinished and finished products which consists of 34 tanks with a total of about 54,830 MT, two Bitumen tanks with a capacity of 2650 M.T. each, and a L.P.G. cylinders holding 60 Metric Tons each. Finished products are despatched to market mostly by road tankers (65,702 trucks in 1968), using a Delivery Area with 16 filling racks. Rail tankers also uplift part of the products, mostly fuel oil (176 in 1968), C. S E R V I C E S Two Power Houses supply the electrical needs of the Refinery. Power House "A" was built in 1949 and contains five Harlandic Diesel Engines driving English Electric alternators of 200 kW each, Power House I'D" was commissioned in 1966 and contains two Ruston typo 8-VEGB 8-cylinder dual fuel engines coupled to Two English Electric alternators of 715 kW each. A total of 9,224,350 kWH was produced in 1968. Steam for use in distillation units, treating, auxiliary steam turbines, heating, etc., in produced by three Babcock-Wilcox water tube boilers, each rated at 15,000 lbs/hour at 250 psi and 600°F. The third boiler wan installed in 1964, Total production of steam from the Boiler House in 1969 was 74,377 M.T. The Process Cooling Water System consists of hot and cold water pumphouses with a Marley Cooling Tower installed in 1956, and Film Cooling Tower installed in 1964. Those are rated at 6,800 USG/m. cooling from 120°F with wet bulb at 77°F. A further cell was commissioned in October, 1967, to accomodated the increased load resulting from the installation of the Bitumen Unit. This increases the capacity of the cooling system by 850 USG/m. to a total of 7650 USG/m. There are adequate supplies of sweet well water within the Rcfinery.
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