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Works: Cooling Tower

Location: Al Shuaiba, Kuwait

Project features: the construction of the two conical forced draught seawater cooling towers is part of Kuwait's programme to increase the domestic production of ethylene derivates. The towers have a height of 53 m and a base diameter of 88 m. Heated water is distributed inside the towers through cooling elements and is then cooled through these elements which are in contact with the counter-current air. The adverse wind is produced by 32 ventilators with a diameter of 6.7 m each, installed in the lowest wall of the towers. As seawater is used for cooling, powerful protection had to be installed to prevent its strong corrosive action. During the first phase, the ORTHOPLUS system was used to build the scaffolding for the ring beam of the diaphragms. The following phases involved the use of the MR 250 climbing system equipped with travelling cart, to move the structure in one piece, with consequent drastic time savings. The formwork used in the different phases was built using the MECCANO system. Almost all the materials used were standard, despite the variations in radius, angles and wall thickness at different heights of the towers. Through the high level of standardisation of the products used, it was possible to reuse the same material in two other worksites.