{"id":8774,"date":"2016-11-21T21:24:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minutes.machine.market\/?p=8774"},"modified":"2016-11-21T21:24:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:24:16","slug":"lampson-and-bigge-team-up-at-chevrons-richmond-refinery-on-the-san-francisco-bay-for-maintenance-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/lampson-and-bigge-team-up-at-chevrons-richmond-refinery-on-the-san-francisco-bay-for-maintenance-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome video of Lampson & Bigge at Chevron\u2019s Richmond Refinery for a maintenance project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lampson\u00a0International<\/a> and Bigge<\/a>\u00a0teamed up on Chevron’s Richmond Refinery maintenance project on the San Francisco Bay in California.<\/p>\n

Bigge lifted a new FCC reactor head onto the cyclones system with an All Terrain Crane and assembled a new FCC regenerator head and cyclones system with a Liebherr LR 1300<\/a>\u00a0lattice boom crawler crane.<\/p>\n

Lampson assembled one of the world’s largest mobile crawler cranes onsite needed a 160 trailer truck loads to bring the crane into the refinery. \u00a0A 106 counterweights weighing nearly 38,000 lbs each were stacked for combined weight of nearly 4 million lbs. \u00a0The biggest lift on the project was the new regenerator head and cyclones weighing over 1 million lbs (500 US ton \/ 453 Metric ton)<\/p>\n

The Chevron Richmond Refinery\u2019s Fluidized Catalytic Cracker (FCC) facilitates a basic gasoline-making process using a blend of mechanical and chemical engineering \u2013 intense heat, low pressure and sand-like catalyst. The equipment is designed to withstand high amounts of tensile stress, heat stress and erosion, but the impact of the process requires significant scheduled maintenance.<\/p>\n