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PLANT of Bentley products improved design efﬁciency by up to 40 percent,” said Wade Newby, senior designer at Southern Company. The software’s ability to handle large structures enabled the team to perform structural analysis of the ductwork and structural steel in a single combined model, then extract the drawings for fabrication and construction. With engineers and designers transferring information back and forth between STAAD.Pro and Bentley Structural, the team spent 40 percent fewer man-hours per drawing, compared to other projects in which Bentley products were not fully utilized. The 3D visualizations made possible by AutoPLANT and TriForma facilitated coordination among team members working on the project. “The capability to transfer analytical and geometry models back and forth between STAAD and Bentley Structural and the tremendous 3D visualization obtained with TriForma and AutoPLANT helped reduce design time while at the same time BE Award Winner Expediting Expansion 3D modeling helps avert interferences when adding capacity to Polish coke plant T v Retroﬁtting existing coal-ﬁred units with scrubbers reduces signiﬁcantly sulfur dioxide emissions improving coordination among engineering disciplines,” said Edgar Nunez, civil design supervisor at Southern Company. Model reviews in the early stages allowed the designers to show the client how the structures, platforms, and access points would look and solicit suggestions for improvements that would make the design more user friendly for operations and maintenance. The use of Bentley solutions allowed clash detection in every stage of the design process, eliminating costly ﬁeld rework during construction. “The use of Bentley products considerably improved the response time of the design team working on the Plant Wansley FGD project,” Nunez said. “With the high level of integration, the array of Bentley products currently deployed within our organization facilitated transfer and sharing of information among team members in a coordinated effort to ﬁnish design within established deadlines.” The Plant Wansley FGD project is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2008. Once online, the scrubbers will help ensure Plant Wansley’s compliance with the most stringent environmental regulations. he Przyja´ n coke plant in Dabrowa Gornicza, Silesia, Poland, z´ encompasses 250 buildings and other structures. It produces around 2.6 million tons of coke each year from bituminous coal. Coke oven gas generated in the coking process is puriﬁed and by-products such as benzol, crude tar, and ammonium sulfate are recovered and sold. The Przyja´ n plant was built in 1988 as a complex of four coke z´ batteries, each containing 80 chambers. Each chamber holds 303 cubic meters and measures 14,200 by 5500 by 410 millimeters. There are two installations for the dry quenching of coke, and each installation has six quenching chambers and serves two of the coke batteries. Dry quenching reduces gas and dust emissions while improving the quality of the coke. Two turbo generators produce electricity via steam obtained through the quenching process. The inﬂuent cleaning and waste removal system is a custom mechanism with three stages: mechanical, biological, and chemical. In 2005, work commenced on a $280 million project to increase plant capacity by 1.4 million tons per year. The expansion project was headed by BSPiR Energoprojekt-Katowice (EPK), one of the largest engineering companies in Poland, together with consulting engineers Koksoprojekt Zabrze. The construction of coke oven battery No. 5 and its associated facilities was divided into two phases: construction of the coke oven battery and modernization of the coal derivatives production department. During the detail engineering phase, BSPiR EPK handled design and detailing work for steel and concrete structures, PROJECT OVERVIEW Przyja´ ´ Coke Plant Expansion zn Organization BSPiR Energoprojekt-Katowice S.A. BE Awards Category Multi-Discipline Plant Design Project Objective Design new coke oven battery to increase plant production by 50 percent electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and piping in more than 50 buildings and structures. Designers faced the additional challenge of placing new pipeline routes in a working plant environment. Roughly 80 percent of the Volume 4, Issue 4 | BE MAGAZINE 41

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BE Magazine - Volume 4, issue 4 Contents The Drive To Innovate News BE Newsletter Highlights Converging on the Market Bytes and Bricks Generative Components Building Courting Success Remodeling an Icon Structural Integration Building News From Bentley Civil Greenfield Airport Takes Flight Good Neighbors Collaborative Innovation Civil News From Bentley Advertisers Index Geospatial Ring of Fiber Revolutionizing Integrity Management Port City Transformation In Conversation With Greg Bentley Geospatial News From Bentley Plant Single-Source Service Committed to Cleaner Air Expediting Expansion Plant News From Bentley Strength in Numbers The Art of Visualization A Winning Legacy Zero Change Culture: Further Definition A Remarkable Collaboration With a Forward-Thinking Community

BE Magazine - Volume 4, Issue 4

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