Based on the proposals
made during the round table initiated by the district administration on April
26, 2023, in the village of Glebovka (Novorossiysk Municipality),and attended
by experts in law, ecology, chemistry,
mechanical engineering and representatives of supervisory authorities
and administrations of seaports, local communities and civic activists in
environmental protection, Caspian Pipeline Consortium invites specialists to
develop a system for controlling the emission and recovery of volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) integrated into the loading of oil tankers through remote
berthing facilities.Everyone can participate
- engineers, individual specialists and teams of authors, students and
postgraduates of specialized universities, etc. The winner will become the
project that will successfully pass the expert review for reliability,
efficiency and safety, and for compliance with Russian legislation, as it is
usually required for such engineering developments, by Rostekhnadzor,
Rospotrebnadzor, Rosprirodnadzor and the Ministry of Emergency of the Russian
Federation. The authors of the project that will be approved by the supervisory
authorities and become the winner by a decision of CPC commission will receive
a valuable prize (grant) worth 1,000,000 rubles and more.
The VOCs recovery system
is to be designed for the following conditions:
·
The single point moorings (SPM) are located at 5
km distance from the shoreline;
·
The deadweight of vessels equipped with has
piping and inert gas system is 100-160 thousand tons;
·
the depth at the loading point is up to 56-60
meters
·
Tankers are loaded via the SPM using two flexible
hoses with a minimal inner diameter of 400 mm;
·
The maximum loading speed is 12,700 cu. m per
hour;
·
Static towing of tankers during the loading
process is provided by a single tag;
·
Weather restrictions: tankers are loaded at the
sea height of no more than three meters and the wind speed no more than 23
m/sec.
The basic flowchart of
loading via SPM is attached hereto.
Caspian Pipeline
Consortium points out that to date there are no VOC recovery systems in the
world for similar loading conditions, but is willing to scrutinize all designs
and economically sound engineering proposals.
Receipt of approved
projects is open from June 1 to September 30, 2023.
We look forward to
receiving your engineering proposals by mail in the form of registered letters
to the address: 115093, Russia, Moscow, Pavlovskaya Str., 7, Bldg. 1.
Wishing you good luck!