The Year in Infrastructure 2008 - (Page 67) InnovatIon In Metals and MInIng MECON Limited 262-Cubic-Meter Blast Furnace Complex Karnataka, India the scope of work involved in designing this 262-cubic-meter blast furnace complex for Kalyani Steels Limited was daunting. For MECON Limited to design a hot-blast system, blast furnace with cast house, gas cleaning plant, dust catcher, material feeding system, and interplant pipelines, it required working seamlessly across a multidiscipline design team. To accomplish this task, MECON deployed the interoperable capabilities of Bentley products, including AutoPLANT, AutoPIPE, and STAAD.Pro to produce a 3D model of the complex. The Bentley tools enabled MECON to export the 3D model to other CAD modeling software quickly and easily. Indeed, Bentley solutions were especially beneficial for shortening the design schedule and producing flawless deliverables. ALSO NOMINATED IN SpEcIAL cATEgOry: ATTAININg rETurN ON INNOvATION SpEc EcIAL cATE rETurN ur INNOv NERIN Pre-Assembly Modulization Project Adelaide, Australia When one of the largest mining companies in the world contracted china nerin Engineering Co., Ltd. (NERIN) to design a copper smelter in Adelaide, Australia – also one of the largest in the world – into modules, NERIN knew that using a traditional 2D design method would be impossible. The project called for the design of the smelter to be several modules that could be transported to ships for long-distance travel. This special construction methodology required NERIN to establish a 3D model of the entire smelter, which was then divided into modules according to the volume of the ground transportation vehicle and the ship. NERIN carried out the design using PlantSpace across 20 engineering disciplines. The team built a large-scale plant model, and then divided it into hundreds of modules according to different process flow characteristics and transportation feasibility. THE YEAR IN INFRASTRUCTURE 2008 ALSO NOMINATED IN SpEcIAL cATEgOry: cOMMuNIcATINg ThrOugh VISuALIzATION SpEc EcIAL cATE u uNIc ugh V uALIz ALIzATION 67
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