Project News
Gas Drying Tower Replacement - General Chemicals
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General Chemical’s Anacortes Works is located between two refineries on Anacortes Island, just off the coast of Washington about 50 km south of the Canada-U.S. border. The 16.5-acre facility converts refinery waste streams intousable products.
General Chemical needed to replace their Gas Drying Tower (GDT) with a taller tower on the existing foundation. In order to reduce the required shut down time for the replacement of the new GDT the foundation would have be modified prior to the shut down as opposed to installing a new foundation.
Fransen Engineering worked closely with General Chemicals and provided details for modifying the existing foundation to support the new GDT as well as details for modifications to an existing support structure next to the GDT to turn it into a large access platform. New lights and heat tracing of water pipes for emergency showers were designed for the new GDT as well as the new work platform.
Distributed Control System Upgrade - Teck
Highland Valley Copper (HVC) is a copper and molybdenum open-pit mine located 80 km southwest of Kamloops, British Columbia. Belonging to Teck Resources Limited, the mine is an open-pit truck-and-shovel operation employing conventional drill and blast mining methods. The mill has five grinding lines implementing both semi-autogenous and autogeneous grinding and conventional flotation to produce metal in concentrate from the ore. Concentrates are transported by rail to customers throughout North America and to Vancouver for export overseas.
When the mine’s productive life was projected to extend to 2020, HVC realized it would need to upgrade its facility-wide Distributed Control System (DCS).
Salmon Arm Landfill Gas Project Contributes to 2012 Sustainable Community Award
Fransen’s recent involvement in a Landfill Closure Project involving Landfill Gas (LFG) Capture and Leachate Collection at the Salmon Arm Landfill has generated a FCM Sustainable Community Award for the Columbia Shuswap Regional District (CSRD) in BC.
Congratulations go out to: Harold Boer, Brandon Ducharme, Brad Moores, Arthur Savage, Jack Deragopian, Jim Simpson, Kris Hardjono, and the rest of the team involved in such a great initiative.
Kinder Morgan (Canada) Inc. - Laurel Pumping Station Upgrade
In order to improve their pipeline capabilities in the Puget Sound area, which includes metering delivery stations at Anacortes and Ferndale, Kinder Morgan has constructed a new pumping station at Laurel, Washington.
Celebrating Success In Talings Projects - Dave Riley
With present technology, Tailings Ponds are a necessary by-product of Oilsands mining. Tailings ponds contain a finite volume and therefore a complex management strategy is required to ensure that they do not become full before the next pond is available. Over the past few years, public pressure to reduce the impact of tailings ponds has resulted in new directives being passed by the Energy and Resource Conservation Board (ERCB) regarding the design, operation, and reclamation of tailings ponds. We have been working with our clients to assist them with projects to address not only the short term needs of maintaining sufficient capacity in the pond, but also the longer term needs of installing the assets to properly manage the ponds through to reclamation.
