Lampson International and Bigge teamed up on Chevron’s Richmond Refinery maintenance project on the San Francisco Bay in California.
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 lattice boom crawler crane.
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. A 106 counterweights weighing nearly 38,000 lbs each were stacked for combined weight of nearly 4 million lbs. The biggest lift on the project was the new regenerator head and cyclones weighing over 1 million lbs (500 US ton / 453 Metric ton)
The Chevron Richmond Refinery’s Fluidized Catalytic Cracker (FCC) facilitates a basic gasoline-making process using a blend of mechanical and chemical engineering – 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.
