Designing the site for oil separation

redfox11 · 10 Feb 2012, 06:42

Good day! I would like to share with you the results of my work on the design of the site for oil separation. This is a real project for which I developed working documentation for construction. I have always modeled the industrial area in the SketchUp, but this project was a real test of the engineering capabilities of this program. Finally, I want to say that the program has successfully fulfilled all tasks and proved to be a great tool for industrial design.

Here are some renderings that I have done as demonstration material for the customer.
Later, I`ll try to add more renderings, the object is so large that while I had to do a test render of only three sites out of ten.

Design made in Google Sketchup Pro 8.
Rendered with Artlantis 4.
Two-dimensional drawings were made in AutoCAD 2010.
Hardware used both for modelling and rendering isn`t great, but it allows to work with whole model without process slowdown:
Core 2 Duo E8500
4gb RAM
Nvidia Geforse 285 GTX.
Win 7 Pro.

leedeetee · 10 Feb 2012, 08:16

Wow, these are great, bravo!

srx · 10 Feb 2012, 09:05

Maladyec!

peter_shaw · 10 Feb 2012, 10:23

amazing, which plugins did u use?

redfox11 · 10 Feb 2012, 10:46

@peter_shaw said:

which plugins did u use?

I used next plugins:
-Profile Builder
-Tube along path
-Pipe along path
-Weld
-Rotate 90,180.
And my own engineering sketchup database (pipes, elbows, tees, caps, flanges, valves, pumps, supports, result of my 4-year sketch practice)

boofredlay · 10 Feb 2012, 12:08

Impressive.

Daniel · 10 Feb 2012, 14:30

Impressive work. Hope we see some more in the future.

jo-ke · 10 Feb 2012, 20:06

that's great. nice to see that sketchup is used in many branches

pbacot · 10 Feb 2012, 20:15

Excellent, Excellent!

Great to see your work.

Given your subject matter you might look at other methods of rendering, ala
Iakov Tchernikov...

Peter

redfox11 · 10 Feb 2012, 21:30

@pbacot said:

Excellent, Excellent!

Great to see your work.

Given your subject matter you might look at other methods of rendering, ala
Iakov Tchernikov...
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Peter

Wow, that drives me mad, looks like the martian tripod from War Of The Worlds.

hellnbak · 10 Feb 2012, 23:21

Wow, very intricate, well-modeled.

Slimdog · 11 Feb 2012, 01:08

What kind of drawings are you supplying? Structural or piping? Got any examples?

Great work by the way. Good to see sketchup being used in the real world.

S

hellnbak · 11 Feb 2012, 01:41

So this is designed to be functional? I mean, each pipe in the model has a specific function, not there just for show?

mitcorb · 11 Feb 2012, 03:44

There are so many details here that indicate attention to safety and management of product. You have even included secondary containment in case of spills. There is expansion relief and pressure equalization using elevated tanks, etc. All to achieve separation with responsible use of active systems only where necessary and in an economical manner. Excellent modeling and rendering. Well presented.

raineysky · 11 Feb 2012, 05:20

Great job Redfox11. That is the kind of drawings I would love to learn how to do!!! Please do show more.

redfox11 · 11 Feb 2012, 10:00

@hellnbak said:

So this is designed to be functional? I mean, each pipe in the model has a specific function, not there just for show?

Yes, this is functional model, I made it for purpose of oil separation. I used flow chart and pipe and instrumentation diagram ( i took part in design of this object). My oil and gas department (where i work) isnt large and we havent money for expensive Autoplant or PDS so I desided to use free SketchUp to design piping and equipment.

hellnbak · 11 Feb 2012, 10:08

@redfox11 said:

@hellnbak said:

So this is designed to be functional? I mean, each pipe in the model has a specific function, not there just for show?

Yes, this is functional model, I made it for purpose of oil separation. I used flow chart and pipe and instrumentation diagram ( i took part in design of this object). My oil and gas department (where i work) isnt large and we havent money for expensive Autoplant or PDS so I desided to use free SketchUp to design piping and equipment.

Thanks. This just keeps getting more impressive. Now, just one more dumb question and then I'll leave you alone - what is "oil separation"? Separating the various grades of oil?

redfox11 · 11 Feb 2012, 10:35

@hellnbak said:

@redfox11 said:

@hellnbak said:

what is "oil separation"?

Shortly - we need to separate well fluids produced from oil and gas wells into gaseous and liquid components.
Separation can be carried out in several stages. You may burn the resulting gas or you may prepare it and use as fuel for electric station.

redfox11 · 11 Feb 2012, 10:35

@slimdog said:

What kind of drawings are you supplying? Structural or piping? Got any examples?

I`m both piping and mechanical engineer so my job is to suply drawings of piping.
But to find collisions I need structural drawings, so in this model I used help of structure engineers from my department.

I can show some examples of final drawings, which I received by 2D export from SketchUp in AutoCAD. The application of the text, dimensioning, I performed in AutoCAD.

Mike Lucey · 11 Feb 2012, 10:50