Case Studies

The Kuwait Styrene Company

The Kuwait Styrene Company (TKSC) is a major producer of olefins in Kuwait. TKSC is in the process of building an EBSM plant at its Olefins 2 Kuwait (OL2K) complex in the Shuaiba Industrial Area. This plant will produce 450 KTA of ethyl benzene and 500 KTA of styrene monomer using the technologies of Badger and Dow respectively.

SWRL, in association with Stone & Webster’s Milton Keynes (UK) office, is doing detailed engineering across most disciplines, including providing procurement assistance services on the project. This project is being executed in a `work-share’ mode between S&W’s UK offices and SWRL in Mumbai. All engineering is being done in Intergraph’s Smart Plant environment using the latest engineering design automation tools.

SWRL is working on the PDS platform for modeling piping and structures. Equipment locations and piping routing have been carried out taking into consideration operation, maintenance and safety norms. Pipe flexibility analysis is being done using CAESAR software. SWRL is carrying out the large scope of piping engineering and design activities, right from initial design to the final issue of piping isometrics for fabrication.

Instrumentation engineering and design involves preparing instrument data sheets, wiring diagrams, instrument layouts and hook-up drawings. All engineering and design activities pertaining to instrumentation engineering and design are carried out using INTools.

Civil and structural detail engineering include STAAD analysis, generation of 2D- drawings for equipment foundations, equipment-supporting structure and platforms.

The electrical group is mainly involved in engineering and design activities in lighting, cable sizing, wiring diagrams, distribution, circuit balancing, lighting layouts, lighting MTO and schedules.

All engineering and design work is done using engineering tools such as Microstation and Chalmlite. SWRL has also provided procurement service assistance for sourcing static and rotating mechanical equipment from Indian vendors.

To ensure seamless transfer of information and for effective communication between SWRL and S&W teams, SWRL utilizes state-of-the-art facilities such as net-meeting using intelligent white boards. There have been frequent deputations of engineering and design personnel between both offices to ensure smooth project execution in the work share environment. The detailed engineering work at SWRL is in an advanced stage of completion.