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    Annular Plate Removal

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    Vishvjeet Prakash Tiwari
    The document outlines the procedure for replacing annular plates on a storage tank. Key steps include: 1. Cleaning the welding areas and removing flammable materials before starting. 2. Gouging the welds between the shell, bottom, and annular plates while ensuring the shell is not damaged. 3. Lifting the annular plates out using hydraulic jacks after they are fully removed from the bottom plates and shell. 4. Inserting the new annular plates and tack welding them into place before completing the full welds.

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    Annular Plate Removal

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    The document outlines the procedure for replacing annular plates on a storage tank. Key steps include: 1. Cleaning the welding areas and removing flammable materials before starting. 2. Gouging the welds between the shell, bottom, and annular plates while ensuring the shell is not damaged. 3. Lifting the annular plates out using hydraulic jacks after they are fully removed from the bottom plates and shell. 4. Inserting the new annular plates and tack welding them into place before completing the full welds.

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    The document outlines the procedure for replacing annular plates on a storage tank. Key steps include: 1. Cleaning the welding areas and removing flammable materials before starting. 2. Gouging the welds between the shell, bottom, and annular plates while ensuring the shell is not damaged. 3. Lifting the annular plates out using hydraulic jacks after they are fully removed from the bottom plates and shell. 4. Inserting the new annular plates and tack welding them into place before completing the full welds.

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    Annular Plate Removal

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    Vishvjeet Prakash Tiwari
    The document outlines the procedure for replacing annular plates on a storage tank. Key steps include: 1. Cleaning the welding areas and removing flammable materials before starting. 2. Gouging the welds between the shell, bottom, and annular plates while ensuring the shell is not damaged. 3. Lifting the annular plates out using hydraulic jacks after they are fully removed from the bottom plates and shell. 4. Inserting the new annular plates and tack welding them into place before completing the full welds.

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    PROCEDURE FOR ANNULAR PLATE REPLACEMENT

     Clean the Weld of Shell to Bottom and Annular to Bottom, free of oil, greeze and
    other flammable materials.

     Before starting the gouging of the shell to bottom weld, ensure that greeze, oil, cotton
    or such inflammable materials are removed from near the gouging area.

     Mark 50M circumferential area around the tank periphery. Start gouging of shell to
    Bottom weld both from outside and inside. Care to taken that parent metal of shell
    plates is not damaged by gouging. For this purpose, the gas-cutters are to be
    properly instructed that only the annular plates are going to be replaced and the shell
    should not be damaged and accordingly the angle of gascutting torch to be
    maintained while gouging.

     Ensure that the shell plates are totally free from the annular plates before the lifting
    activity is initiated.

     Removal of welding of Annular plates to bottom is suggested by grinding instead of


    gouging, as the fitter weld may be of 8mm – This will ensure that the Bottom plates
    edges are not damaged. Once the bottom sketch plates a are made free from
    Annular plates, the edges of Bottom plates are to be ground properly, free of spur
    etc.

     Provide hydraulic lifting jacks – 50MT capacity each as per the locations shown on
    the attached sketch.

     Gas cutter has to take special care while cutting the annular joints, as there is every
    chance for back-fire due to the existence of bitumen underneath the plate.

     Gs cut the existing Annular 2 Nos. joints to facilitate removal of 2Nos. Annular plates.
    Jacks may e provided in such a manner that removal of our no annular plate is easily
    possible through between two nos. jacks. The second annular plate can be shifted to
    inside and pull out through the space available in between the 2 Nos. jacks.

     Lift the tank only to the required height, which is enough for removal, insertion of old/
    new annular plates.

     The same procedure as mentioned above may be adopted from insertion of new
    annular plates in place of old plates cut & removed.

     After the insertion of New annular plate, check the outer radius from the center of the
    tank, color dimension from the outer shell periphery before tack welding the butt-
    joint.

    /Contd…2…
    PROCEDURE FOR ANNULAR PLATE REPLACEMENT

    -2-

     Tack weld the annular butt joint with the backing strips.

     Complete welding of minimum 6” length of the area where the shell sits.D.P. test can
    be now carried for the area of shell-seating, before lowering.

     Lower the tank in its correct periphery and remove the jacks.

     Shift the whole lifting arrangement to the extn 50m length of the tank periphery.

     The aforesaid procedure can be adopted further, and likewise finish the total annular
    plates replacement in 5 stages.

     Parallely, the rest of the portion of annular plates joints welding can be completed.
    However, annular plate to bottom joint shall be kept free until the shell to bottom
    welding is completed.

     Complete the vacuum testing of inside annular joint tot eh extent possible.

     Shell to Bottom fit-up can be taken up after the completion of Annular butt joints
    welding.

     Minimum 4 welders should be provided for welding of shell to Bottom at a time,


    starting the welding at 4 equal locations.

     After the completion of shell to bottom I/S welding, chalk-diesel test may be carried
    out prior to outside welding.

     Complete outside shell to bottom welding.

     Now, the annular to Bottom fit-up and welding can be taken-up.

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