STI/SPFA presents awards for steel tanks and fabricated products

STI/SPFA, Lake Zurich, Ill., an association for fabricators of steel tanks, pipe, and pressure vessels, recently recognized member companies in specific industry categories by conferring its Steel Tank and Fabricated Product of the Year Awards for 2010.

• Standpipe category - CB&I, San Luis Obispo, Calif., for a 140-ft.-tall thermal energy tank, built for the Central Utility Plant, Sacramento, Calif. It stores reserves of chilled water produced during off-peak energy times; during the heat of the day, the water is used to cool the capitol building and other state offices.
• Reservoir category - Paso Robles Tank Inc., Paso Robles, Calif., for a 5.0-million-gal. knuckle roof water tank in Indio, Calif. It measures 180 by 32 ft., and there is about 250 linear ft. of piping.
• Special Storage category - Paso Robles Tank Inc., for a low-pressure gas holding tank in Moreno Valley, Calif. The 24-ft.-dia. tank measures 30 ft. high and features a self-supporting cone roof and internal/external pistons.
• Elevated Steel Tank category - CB&I Inc., Wexford, Pa., for a 2.0-million-gal., fluted-column, elevated potable water storage tank in Dublin, Ohio. The tank houses a first-floor break room, restroom, and storage area to accommodate personnel and maintenance equipment. The first floor is heated by a geothermal system that provides radiant floor heating through piping embedded into the tank's floor slab.
• Pressure Vessel category - Sauder Custom Fabrication Inc., Emporia, Kan., for a 411,000-lb. coker fractionator tower in McPherson, Kan. It is nearly 187 ft. tall and 14 ft. in diameter.
• Shop Fabricated Atmospheric Tank category - T Bailey Inc., Anacortes, Wash., for 29 assorted API 650 and UL 142 welded steel tanks that are part of a new offshore oil production field in Nikaitchuq, Alaska.
• Special Fabrication category - Brown-Minneapolis Tank-Northwest, Elma, Wash., for an intake structure for public water systems in Boulder City, Nev. It is built of stainless steel 2.5 molybdenum special blend with a machined, 16-ft.-dia. ID bolting flange. Overall shipping diameter was 18 ft. 9 in.
• Pipe Fabrication Project of the Year - Ameron Intl.'s Water Transmission Group, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., for combination steel fittings for the San Vincente Pipeline West Shaft project, owned by San Diego County Water Authority. The project design included a 102- by 102-in.-dia. T with three-piece crotch plate reinforcement and a riser pipe section fitting with one dished head end and two 30-in.-dia. outlets. An additional 102-in.-dia. steel pipe also was installed to extend the riser pipe to the ground surface.
• Ameron Intl.'s Water Transmission Group won a second award for its public utilities pipeline work in California. The pipes are owned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and are installed at its Alameda Siphon No. 4 in Fremont, Calif.
• Affiliate Member New Product of the Year Award - Induron Protective Coatings, Birmingham, Ala., for PermaClean™ 100 ceramic epoxy, developed to offer single-coat, long-lasting barrier protection to the interior of field-erected water storage tanks. The product combines plural-component amine epoxy with ceramic beads and hydrophobic carbon pigmentation to deliver a zero perm rating and a zero cathodic-disbondment rating.