Kador recently completed the delivery of a 100t capacity ammonia-storage vessel to be installed as part of an ammonium nitrate plant upgrade, in central Queensland. Kador’s contract included the design of the vessel, to AS1210, Class 1.
The vessel is 26m long and 3.2m in diameter, with a total weight of 64t. These dimensions called for careful transport co-ordination to ensure its journey through the suburbs of Brisbane to the site was executed safely.
Perhaps the most pleasing feature of the whole project was the quality of the welding work carried out in Kador’s Sherwood workshop. Welding was subject to 100% X-ray, and over the whole vessel, the Kador workforce achieved a weld repair rate of less than 0.1%.
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