Intertec has won the contract for the environmental protection cabinets and shelters that will protect the field-based process analysers at the new Sadara petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia.
The outdoor cabinets will be constructed from high performance grades of GRP (glass reinforced polyester). This will provide long term protection against the region’s extreme climatic conditions – which include very high temperatures and UV levels for example – as well as the corrosion threats posed by the process media and salty sea air.
The Sadara complex will have 26 world scale manufacturing plants and will be the world’s largest petrochemical facility ever built in a single phase. Intertec is expecting that cabinets to protect around 1,000 field-based analysers will be needed for this project.
The enclosures required range in size from small cabinets suitable for housing a single analyser, to shelters as large as 11 x 3m, which can accommodate ten or more analysers. The cabinets are being designed and manufactured at two of Intertec’s global facilities, in Sarnia, Canada and Neustadt, Germany.
