The Research Centre for Gas Innovation (RCGI) in São Paulo needed a solution to reduce energy loss during trials for its pioneering hydrogen power plant. As the first of its kind in the world, the plant serves as a pilot project to explore the operation of a small-scale facility. The goal is to gain insights to develop highly optimised plants capable of powering a new generation of hydrogen-fuelled vehicles. The plant required thermal insulation for the valves, flanges, pressure vessels, and pipes in the trial facility to enhance sustainability and improve energy efficiency in the process of transforming ethanol into hydrogen.

Kiewitt needed to protect an LNG tank on an ice canopy from fire hazards and cryogenic spill at the loading pump during the construction phase of its National Grid Commercial Point Plant Modernisation Project. The proximity of the ice canopy structural steel to the LNG tank and the in situ pipework meant a lightweight, prefinished and bolted protection wall was the optimum solution. The ContraBlast® system was the answer.

Our customer, a leader in mobile power generation required insulation for Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) fuel lines which were mounted on pipe racks and trace heated. Their project was a new-build modular power plant in West Africa where multiple generators would be linked with fuel lines between them, all trace-heated and insulated.