real world applications for industrial partners
CASESTUDY
application:
OIL REFINERY
When an oil refinery conducts its
regularly scheduled maintenance
turnaround, the company shuts
down all or part of its production
processes. Maintenance and
upkeep of various operating
units is then performed to ensure
continued safe and efficient
refinery operation.
For major turnarounds, up to
several thousand contract workers
from dozens of companies can be
onsite for eight or more weeks.
Only trusted partners are allowed
to participate. One of those
required partners is a provider
of temporar y power. In this
arena, safety, reliability and cost-
effective solutions are the criteria
for success. So is flexibility
— executing assigned tasks to
an ever changing set of demands
is of paramount importance.
Equipment and people must
perform flawlessly.
result
As Shell’s temporary power partner,
Kohler Rental delivered continuous
electrical power for 8 weeks, 24x7,
for a turnaround process, and the
cokers were back in full operation as
scheduled.
“We certainly express our thanks to
Kohler Rental,” says Efrain Saenz,
Electrical Engineer, Shell Deer Park
Refining Company. “The generator
power systems, along with their
controls, worked extremely well and met
or exceeded all our expectations. The
support and service from the generator
technicians were also superior.”
customer
Shell Deer Park
Shell Deer Park, the country’s
solution sixth-largest oil refinery, is
a 1,500-acre site home to
refining an electrical plan a fully integrated refinery
and petrochemical plant that
employs 1,700 people, plus
To meet the project’s large electrical-load requirements contractors. The refinery and
chemical facilities operate
and redundancy requirements, Kohler designed two 24 hours a day, and in many
ways, run like a small city
480-volt, 4.5 megawatt (MW) power grids. Each grid — a unique combination
comprised three 1.5MW KOHLER Power Modules — an of processing equipment,
control rooms, storage tanks,
integrated, Kohler-engineered generator and paralleling environmental protection
facilities, office buildings,
switchgear in a single container. Kohler’s Power Module
shops and warehouses. The
control system features auto sequencing functionality to products made at this refinery
include gasoline, aviation
automatically cycle the generators on and off as the load fuels, ship and utility fuels, and
changes, allowing Kohler to propose a unique load and furnace oil/diesel fuels.
generator management scheme. Generator run-times A m b e r L P, a n e l e c t r i c a l
c o n t r a c t i n g c o m p a n y, i s
are optimized, fuel consumption is reduced and power is hired by Shell Deer Park to
uninterrupted, even for routine maintenance. Additionally, design the electrical plan
for the oil refinery’s Maya
Kohler Rental provided separate generators for incidental coker turnaround.
loads, all the common bussing, power cable, transformers
and distribution.
The job
n 10+MW of power supplied
by generators equipped with
engine oil make-up systems
and GPS monitoring
n Transformers
n Common Buss
n I-Line panels
n 80,000 feet of electrical cable
n 24/7 onsite technical support
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