Project: Chevron Bulk Fuel Receiving and Distribtion System
Client:
Chevron Products Company
Location:
Port of Anchorage, Alaska
Project Scope:
GNE provided design and construction oversight of a new petroleum products receiving and pumping
facility. The facility is located at the Port of Anchorage and is the primary source of fuel for
the SAC Command Base, at Elmendorf AFB.
The design for this system required a new, customized building to house the receiving metering
equipment, pumping equipment, filtration equipment, additizing equipment and valving for directing
the product movement. A new control room was required to monitor the incoming product filling the
tanks; and, to control the pumping system to deliver product to the base facilities and the railcar
loading rack. Design a 10 rail-car loading rack, complete with vapor control and spill containment.
Design a spill containment and collection system, including a drainage system to an underground fuel
water separator and spilled fuel storage tanks.
The integration of all of the elements required extensive design analysis and simulation testing
to ensure the entire project would achieve the desired results.
Project Details:
- Designed computer controlled pumping system to accomplish 19 functional modes
- Pumping can circulate the product between tanks to accomplish additization, filtration, or inventory control
- Pumps are capable of filling six rail cars at one time at a rate of 600 gallons per minute
- Pumps and valving configuration are controlled in a control room that uses computer graphics and programmable logic control
- Additization is accomplished using a turbine driven positive displacement pumping system that injects three additives at a constant rate equal to the flow in the pipeline