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HOW TO DESIGN, MANUFACTURE & INSTALL £300,000 PROCESS SKID IN JUST 4-WEEKS
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A partnership of the Richard Alan Group and process design specialist, Manrochem, has designed, manufactured and installed a bespoke skid for a UK medical device manufacturer in just 4-weeks. The £300,000 skid is part of a pilot plant for the production of a new generation of specialist wound dressings.
The bespoke skid is the latest in a line of projects undertaken by Richard Alan in partnership with Manrochem. The latter provides the process design and mechanical layout, and Richard Alan, the vessel and pipework manufacture, steelwork fabrication, mechanical, and electrical facilities - including hazardous area provision – and installation.
“The design and manufacture of the skid was complicated from the onset by the space available and limited access – a 4m2 square hole in a wall – through which the unit had to pass before it could be installed,” said Sean Wylie, Project Engineer for Richard Alan. “This affected every area of the design, making the sizing of each component and its associated pipework critical. In addition, the fact that the skid had to be built quickly contributed to the challenge of getting the design right first time.”
Once they received the process design and mechanical layout from Manrochem, engineers from three divisions of the Richard Alan Group: Mechanical Design and Product Development, Fabrication and Electrical instrumentation, began work on the skid simultaneously. A fourth division, Engineering and Installations, drew up plans of how to accommodate the skid once it was built.
The steelwork and fabrication for the skid took just two weeks. At the same time, Richard Alan’s engineers had designed the four pressure vessels that make up the skid. These were manufactured at Richard Alan’s Dewsbury works and fitted into the finished steelwork. The equipment was connected using sch10 stainless steel pipe and fittings, with X ray testing on 10% of the pipework butts. Some of the pipework was jacketed and this involved further design work, as allowance had to be made for the expansion resulting from the temperature difference between these pipes and their jackets.
In just 4-weeks the skid was 95% complete, including cable trays and connecting wires, ready for shipping and installation. “We were not looking forward to the installation,” said Sean Wylie Projects Manager for the Richard Alan Group. |
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