Refinery Overall Description: Attachment 1.1
Refinery Overall Description: Attachment 1.1
1.1.3.1 Port
Da Nang is the nearest commercial port, which has facilities to receive large and ocean-
going ships.
There is a newly built Construction Dock on the East side of Dung Quat Harbor and shall
be served as a general refinery equipment loading dock.
1.1.3.1 Airport
The Site can be reached by international flights to Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City, then
domestic flights to Da Nang and by car from Da Nang to the Site. Da Nang is an
International Airport.
1.1.3.3 Railroad
There is currently no railway to the Site. The nearest railway station is at Quang Ngai
town and it is on the national main line service from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City.
1.1.3.4 Highway
A highway of 13.3 km long and a bridge of 500 m have been built over cross Tra Bong
River to Dung Quat Harbor from the National Road No.1. A road of 12 km long
connecting the Refinery with the Construction Dock has been built.
Viet Thanh Bay, to the east of the Site, offers water depths close to shore and
environmental conditions suitable for the operation of SPM facilities for import of crude
by tankers up to 110,000DWT.
The jetty layout is arranged to allow good access for maintenance, fire fighting,
necessary security and support services at the entrance.
Process Units
Non-Licensed Process Units Capacity
Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) 148,000.0 BPSD
The LPG Treater Unit (LTU) is designed to process the C3/C4 stream from the RFCC
Gas Plant prior to routing to the Propylene Recovery Unit. The bulk of the H2S in the
LPG stream is removed in an amine absorber, located in the RFCC Gas Plant.
The LTU is designed to reduce mercaptan and H2S levels in the C3/C4 product, when
charged with design feedstock.
2.10 RFCC Naphtha Treater (Unit 017)
General Description
The Naphtha Treater Unit (NTU) is designed to process the RFCC Naphtha from the
RFCC.
The unit is designed to produce a sweet (i.e. low mercaptan sulphur) naphtha product.
Product from the NTU is once stored in the Refinery tankage and routed to the Mogas
blenders. Fresh caustic at the desired concentrations is supplied to the unit for use in the
treaters. Spent caustic from the treaters is routed to the Spent Caustic Neutralisation Unit
(CNU).
2.11 Sour Water Stripper (Unit 018)
General Description
Attachment 1.1 : Refinery Overall Descriptions Page 15 of 35
The objective of the Sour Water Stripper (SWS) is to treat refinery sour waters, such that
the stripped sour water is suitable for discharge to the effluent treatment plant.
Sour water from the CDU, NHT, RFCC and LCOHDT units is fed to a surge drum where
hydrocarbons are degassed. These sour gases are routed to the sour flare header.
Combined sour water is pumped via feed / bottoms heat exchanger to a two stages
stripping system where dissolved ammonia and hydrogen sulphide are removed from the
sour water.
The sour water is fed to the H2S stripper to remove H2S. The H2S rich SWS off-gas is
sent to sulphur recovery section of SRU, where sulphur is recovered.
Stripped water from the first column is cooled against incoming feed and air. The
stripped water is then routed to the second stripping column to remove NH3. The NH3
rich SWS off-gas is routed to the SRU Incinerator. The stripped sour water from this
column is either routed to the CDU for use as desalter wash water or is routed to the ETP
for treatment.
2.12 Amine Regeneration Unit (Unit 019)
General Description
Combined rich amine from the RFCC and LCO HDT units is routed to a feed surge drum
where hydrocarbons are skimmed and degassed from the amine. Skimmed oil is routed to
light slops and sour gases are scrubbed and routed to fuel gas.
Rich amine is routed via feed / bottoms heat exchange to a regeneration column where
hydrogen sulphide is stripped.
Sour gas overheads from the column are condensed and refluxed, and the residual
concentrated sour gas is directed to SRU.
Stripped lean amine is cooled against incoming feed and air. The lean amine is then
pumped and treated with anti-foam agent (if required) back to the H2S absorbers on the
RFCC and LCOHDT. A slipstream of amine is filtered to remove impurities.
An amine surge tank is available to hold the total refinery amine inventory in the event of
a shutdown. Fresh amine is stored in a small make-up tank for preparation of initial and
make-up solutions.
2.13 Spent Caustic Neutralisation Unit (Unit 020)
General Description
The Spent Caustic Neutralisation Unit is required to neutralise and remove phenolic and
naphthenic oils from various spent caustic streams.
The spent caustic is degassed and then neutralised by treating with sulphuric acid. The
neutralised brine is routed to the effluent treatment plant. The Sour Gas produced from
the unit is routed to Incinerator unit on SRU.
Flows to the unit are on both a batch and continuous basis.
The unit is designed to produce neutralised brine with a pH of between 6-8, when
charged with design feedstock.
Fresh sulphuric acid is supplied to a storage tank within the battery limits of the unit.
2.14 Propylene Recovery Unit (Unit 021)
Light Naphtha from the upstream Naphtha Splitter is charged to the feed dryers and then
to the charge surge drum. The recycled liquid stream from the deisohexanizer (DIH) is a
side-draw stream that is pumped from the DIH column and also routed through the
dryers, prior to being mixed with the fresh feed. The Hydrogen make-up gas flows to a
Attachment 1.1 : Refinery Overall Descriptions Page 17 of 35
methanator to remove trace levels of CO and then onto the gas dryers, similar to those on
the liquid feedstock, prior to being mixed with the combined feed from the charge surge
drum. The combined feed is heated through exchange against reactor effluent and a
steam charge heater. Chloride is injected into the stream and then sent to the reactors.
The combined feedstock reacts to form a higher octane reactor effluent steam. The
effluent from lead reactor is cooled via exchange with the combined feed to lower the
temperature of the stream prior to being charged to the inlet of the second reactor.
The high octane reactor effluent from the lag reactor is heat exchanged with the
combined feed and pressured directly to the product stabilizer column. The overhead
vapour product from the stabilizer receiver flows to the caustic scrubber column to
remove hydrogen chloride before flowing to the fuel gas system. The stabilized and
isomerised liquid product from the bottom of the stabilizer column passes to the DIH
column.
The DIH column fractionates the stabilizer bottoms material into three streams. The
overhead stream is primarily composed of pentanes and high octane dimethylbutanes.
The side-cut stream recovers most of the n-hexane, methyl pentanes and some of the C6
naphthenes, and is returned to the dryers as a recycle stream for further octane
upgrading. The DIH bottoms product consists primarily of the C7+ compounds and
some of the C6 naphthenes. DIH overhead and bottoms products are combined and
routed to the Refinery tankage as mogas blending stock.
2.17 LCO Hydrotreater (Unit 024)
General Description
Untreated LCO from RFCC is pumped and mixed with the recycle gas coming from the
recycle compressor and also with the make up gas coming from the make up compressor.
The mixture is preheated by the reactor effluent in the feed/effluent exchangers and
brought to reaction temperature by the reactor heater.
The hydrogenation reactions occur in a fixed bed catalyst reactor to get stable products
for use as auto-diesel blend stock.
Reactor effluent is cooled down first in the stripper feed preheater then in the
feed/effluent exchangers. At the outlet of the heat recovery system, water is injected in
order to avoid any salt deposition.
The effluent is cooled down in an air cooler followed by a trim cooler before entering the
separator drum.
The aqueous phase is sent to SWS, while the liquid phase is sent to the stripper column.
The gas phase is returned to the recycle KO-drum and to the recycle compressor.
The liquid phase of the separator drum is preheated against the stripper bottom and
against the reactor effluent.
The overhead is partially condensed in air condenser followed by a trim cooler. The
overhead liquid product is sent to RFCC as wild naphtha. The decanted water is collected
in a boot and used as washing water make-up.
The sour gas is sent to off-gas amine absorber to remove H2S and routed to the fuel gas
system.
The connections are provided to accommodate the supply and return of cooling water to
and from the future polypropylene plant.
3.5 Sea Water Intake (Unit 034)
General Description
The Seawater Intake Unit comprises of a seawater intake box, (located offshore,)
seawater intake basin inlet line, a seawater intake basin, (located on-shore,) seawater
circulation pumps, hypochlorite dosing and discharge facilities.
The Unit is designed to provide the following:
Seawater to the Power Station and the RFCC Air Blower and Wet Gas
Compressor for once through cooling in the Vacuum Condensers
Seawater to the seawater/freshwater exchanger for cooling the closed loop cooling
water system
Seawater is pumped through the seawater circuit by centrifugal pumps, located within the
Seawater Intake Basin. Hypochlorite for chlorination of the seawater is generated on site
by the electrolysis of seawater.
3.6 Plant and Instrument Air (Unit 035)
General Description
The instrument and plant air demand for the Refinery is met by a set of three air
compressors. The air leaving the compressors is passed through wet air receivers
designed to smooth out fluctuations of flow and remove condensed water. The air is then
passed through a drying system comprising of two refrigeration-type dryers, before
passing into two instrument air receivers.
The connection is provided to accommodate the supply of instrument air to the future
polypropylene plant.
3.7 Nitrogen System (Unit 036)
General Description
The Nitrogen Unit comprises of a Nitrogen Generation Package with associated Liquid
Nitrogen Storage and Vaporisation Packages. The unit is designed to provide the
following:
gaseous nitrogen to process users in normal operation
liquid nitrogen for storage and subsequent vaporisation to meet peak loads and
start-up demands
dedicated liquid nitrogen for storage and subsequent vaporisation for use in the
CCR Regeneration Section
an independent high pressure system for leak testing of process
equipment/pipelines
Nitrogen is generated by cryogenic air separation to a purity of 99.7% by volume.
3.8 Fuel Gas (Unit 037)
General Description
The Refinery Fuel Gas Unit comprises of Fuel Gas Mix Drums, a Vaporiser Package and
fuel gas collection/distribution pipework. The unit is designed to supply fuel gas to
process unit fired heaters and to the HHP boilers at the Power Station.
The Power Generation Unit comprises HHP Deaerators, HHP BFW Pumps, HHP
Boilers, Steam Turbine Turbo-Generators (plus all necessary ancillaries), Vacuum
Condensers and Condensate Return Pumps. The unit shall provide the following:
HP steam to the Refinery (in abnormal operation only)
MP steam to the Refinery
Electrical Power to the Refinery and to all facilities associated with the Refinery,
plus export of any excess power via a link to the EVN Grid
Vacuum condensate for treatment and reuse
Letdown/desuperheating stations to support the Refinery HP and MP steam
headers
LP steam in excess of Power Station demand to Refinery
The Refinery has a link to the EVN grid, which allows power in excess of the Refinery
demand to be exported. The link also allows power to be imported from EVN for
emergency/start-up use.
Power Generation is sized to accommodate the supply of required power to the future
polypropylene plant.
4.0 DESCRIPTION OF OFFSITE FACILITIES
These facilities comprise:
Refinery Tankage
Product Tank Farm
Truck Loading
Product Blending
Flushing Oil
Slops
Flare System
Effluent Treatment
Fire Water
Crude Tank Farm
Interconnecting Pipelines
4.1 Refinery Tankage (Unit 051)
General Description
The Refinery Tankage Unit comprises the storage and handling facilities for
intermediates and finished products which are located in the Offsite area at the Refinery.
Off-Spec Propylene Sphere
Within Refinery Tankage, there is one sphere for storing off-spec Propylene. From this
sphere, Propylene is pumped to the PRU for re-processing or to the LPG vaporisers for
disposal into Refinery Fuel Gas.
Off-Spec LPG Sphere
Within the Refinery tankage, there is one sphere for storing off-spec LPG, which
receives off-spec LPG from PRU in normal operation. This sphere also receives a start-
up LPG during initial start-up of the Refinery. From this sphere, LPG stream is pumped
Attachment 1.1 : Refinery Overall Descriptions Page 23 of 35
to the LTU or the PRU for re-processing, and or to the LPG vaporisers for disposal into
Refinery Fuel Gas.
RFCC Feed Tank
Residue from CDU is rundown into the RFCC Feed Tank. It is possible to bypass this
tank, thereby feeding the RFCC directly from CDU.
From the RFCC Feed Tank, CDU Residue is pumped to the RFCC or to the Fuel Oil
Blender. In normal operation, CDU Residue is not blended into Fuel Oil.
NHT Feed Tank
Full Range Naphtha from the CDU stabiliser is rundown to the NHT Feed Tank. It is
possible to bypass this tank, thereby feeding the NHT directly from CDU. From the tank,
Full Range Naphtha can also be supplied to the NHT.
Heavy Naphtha Tank
Hydrotreated heavy naphtha from the NHT Naphtha Splitter is rundown to the Heavy
Naphtha Tank. It is possible to bypass this tank, thereby feeding the CCR directly from
the bottom of NHT Naphtha Splitter.
RFCC Naphtha Tank
Within the Refinery tankage, there are two RFCC Naphtha tanks.
In normal operation, RFCC Naphtha is rundown to these tanks. Any off-spec RFCC
Naphtha is stored into one of the RFCC Naphtha Tanks. The stored off-spec material is
subsequently co-blended into Mogas, or returned to the Refinery slops system, for re-
processing.
Reformate Tank
Refomate from the CCR is rundown into this tank, from which the Reformate is pumped
to the Mogas Blenders.
IsomerateTank
Within the Refinery tankage, there are two Isomerate tanks
Isomerate from the ISOM DIH column is rundown into these tanks, from which the
Isomerate is pumped to the Mogas Blenders.
Mixed C4’s Spheres
Mixed C4’s from the PRU are rundown into these spheres. From the spheres the Mixed
C4’s are pumped to the Mogas Blenders.
Surplus amount of mixed C4's are directly rundown to the LPG product pipeline to the
Product Tank Farm, or sent to the LPG vaporisers in the Refinery Fuel Gas System.
SR Kerosene Tank
SR Kerosene treated at the KTU is directly rundown to the final product tanks at the
Product Tank Farm, and shipped as Jet A-1 fuel or Burning Grade Kerosene. A part of
the Treated SR Kerosene is rundown to the SR Kerosene Tank located in the Refinery
tankage, from which the treated SR Kerosene is pumped to the Auto-Diesel/Final Oil
Blenders
LPG
Propylene
Note
1. The Jetty Topsides facilities are designed for the import of LPG and diesel via
the Coastal Berths for Refinery start-up.
The Ocean Berths are designed to handle vessels in the range 15,000 to 30,000 DWT.
However the jetty structure and foundations shall be designed for vessels up to 50,000
DWT to facilitate conversion to this size of vessel in the future. The Coastal Berths are
designed to handle vessels in the range 1,000 to 2,000 DWT for propylene and LPG, and
3,000 to 5,000 DWT for all other oil products.
At the Jetty, there are 6 product berths in total, berths 1 and 2 designated as Ocean Berths
and berths 3, 4, 5 and 6 designated as Coastal Berths.
At the berths, dedicated loading arms are provided for Mogas, Jet A1/ Kerosene, Auto-
Diesel, Fuel oil, LPG and Propylene.
Custody transfer of products exported via the Berths is by custody transfer flowmeter.
Facilities are provided at Coastal Berth 6 to off-load and meter Ballast Water. Using the
vessel’s on-board pumps and a fuel oil loading arm, Ballast Water is pumped directly to
the Ballast Water tanks at Product Tankage for treatment.
The Jetty construction shall comprise piled reinforced concrete jetty head platforms to
form the berths and piled steel/concrete trestles to provide access to the berths.
The jetty head platforms will house the product loading arms, piping and associated
facilities.
Piled approach, berthing and mooring dolphin structures will be constructed as part of
the facilities together with all fendering.
Other associated Auxiliary Facilities at the jetty shall include:
Firewater pumps and Submarine piping for water intake
Firewater Intake structure located near the shoreline
Construction/General Cargo dock
In addition to all of the above a construction dock has been constructed adjacent to the
jetty. This facility will be available to offload equipment and material for the
construction of the refinery (including large, bulky and heavy equipment). During the
refinery operation life the dock will be used for general cargo and as a marine
maintenance work area.
5.2 Single Point Mooring (SPM)