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Three power units with 1,000 hp each
Nord-West Oelleitung GmbH is Germany’s hub for the transhipment, storage and transit of mineral oil.
With 35 tanks and a total capacity of 1,600,000 m³, the NWO is one of the most important mineral oil import ports in Germany. Some one billion tonnes of mineral oil have now been handled and forwarded via the NWO facilities by more than 18,000 tankers.
Requirements
The regulations and standards have become much stricter in recent years with regard to the required water and foam output quantities. A new fire protection concept, including a new pump house, was necessary to meet the expansion of the safety-related systems at NWO.
Solution
In addition to an inlet structure that satisfies the guidelines for feeding the surface water to the fire-fighting units, we supplied the most important thing for the pump house – three diesel-powered vertical fire-fighting pumps with an engine output of 1,000 hp each, which pump 75,000 litres per minute through the pipelines (with equates to about 14 bathtubs per second).
Project details
| Category | Tank farm |
| Customer | Nord-West Ölleitung GmbH |
| Initial launch | 2016 |
| Max. Output | 75,000 litres / minute |
| Operating pressure | 12.7 bar |
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