Chapter 6
I Construction During The Settlement Years
II The Use Of Timber As A Structural Material
III Structural Steel
IV Concrete Technology
V Housing
VI Industrialised Pre-cast Concrete Housing
VII Ports And Harbours
VIII Roads
IX Heavy Foundations
X Bridges
XI Sewerage
XII Water Engineering
XIII Railways
XIV Major Buildings
XV Airports
XVI Thermal Power Stations
XVII Materials Handling
XVIII Oil Industry
i All Welded Storage Tanks
ii Insulated Fuel Oil Pipeline
iii Wartime Concrete Tanks
iv The Cobia 2 Sub-sea Completion
v Mackerel and Tuna Platforms
vi Snapper Post-Trenching Plough
vii The North West Shelf Project Plough
XIX The Snowy Mountains Scheme
XX The Sydney Opera House
XXI The Sydney Harbour Bridge
XXII Hamersley Iron
XXIII North West Shelf
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Insulated Fuel Oil Pipeline
In 1965 an insulated cross country pipeline for fuel oil was constructed between Geelong Refinery and Melbourne, a distance of 55 kilometres. At the time it was the longest such line in the world and depended on a new insulating technique. The 8 inch steel pipe (overall diameter 219 mm) was encased in a 320 mm polyethylene tube and the enclosed space filled with polyurethane foamed in place to provide the required thermal insulation. The pipeline was laid underground without further coating, in an easement parallel to the Geelong Melbourne road.Initially the line was planned to handle from 55 to 110 tonnes of hot fuel oil per hour using one pump at the Geelong end without re-heating along the route. The engineering consultants were Pipeline Technologists and the principal construction contract was let to S. Haunstrup and Co. Pty. Ltd.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - Pipeline Technologists; S. Haunstrup and Co. Pty Ltd
People in Bright Sparcs - Gorrie, A. W.
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