A vacuum tower was lifted at the construction site of the TANECO Oil Refining and Petrochemical Plants Complex, designed to work as part of a vacuum distillation unit of the visbreaking stable residue cracking.

The vacuum tower weighing 195 tons was manufactured by JSC Volgogradneftemash. The unit has the following dimensions: the height is 47.2 meters; the diameter of the bottom part is 2 meters, top - 5 meters.

They used Liebherr cranes with a lifting capacity of 750 and 350 tons to rise the tower from the horizontal to the vertical position and install it on a 22.6 meters high pedestal. Lifting of the large-capacity equipment was carried out in the regular operating mode in accordance withthe scheduled work execution program, developed by the installation company OOO SOP & G and coordinated with and approved by the specialists of the Department for the Implementation of PJSC TATNEFT's Construction Projects.

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