Scunthorpe TATA Project Team Commended
02 September 2011 by Paul Rhoades
The Dawes Lane Coke Ovens gasholder at the 2000 acre Tata steelworks site has just had its make over complete. The 74.7 metre structure which was build by Clayton, Son & Co in 1976 as part of the new coking ovens complex off Dawes Lane has been finished off with the words TATA STEEL painted around its 41.5 meter diameter which can be seen for miles around.
The gasholder was taken out of service last year and a team headed by Rob Aitken started to undertake a major repair and refurbishment of the structure. The team came from a diverse range of occupations across the site including people from Germany and Italy as well as local firm, Grayton Engineering, where none of them were particularly familiar with project work along these lines. They set about bench marking other projects to get an idea of what they would do on the gasholder project.
In its life the gasholder had never undergone a major overhaul though it was known the piston seal was leaking this would be one of the major tasks of the repair before it failed totally, releasing gas to atmosphere.
All of the work set out was complete on time and within the £2.5m budget, improvements added to it including remote operating safety valves and monitoring equipment which allows engineers to predict the future lifespan of the gasholder.
The project team didn’t really know what the tasks ahead would endure until the could actually get inside the gas holder so most the project was put together on an estimation of what work would be required to do. It was found that there was 170 tons of coke oven tar in the bottom of the gasholder that had to be removed.
The team were nominated for the Working Together category in the companies Long Products Excellence Awards that were held at Swansea City’s Liberty Stadium. Although the team didn’t win the judges Highly Commended the project.
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