To protect the ground from leaks in an oil valve park, Drytech built a watertight tank underneath the plant without interrupting its operations.
A valve park sorts the crude oil unloaded from tankers to storage tanks.
In the specific case of the plant’s leaks in the ground, it was necessary and urgent to restore it, but without the possibility of interrupting its activity.
It was therefore decided to create an impermeable tank below the system of valves, which had been placed in contact with the ground.
With an almost archaeological approach, the ground beneath the plant was excavated by gradually inserting supports to the pipelines.
Then we proceeded to the casting of the drytech waterproof concrete slab and walls and, when the casting was ripe, the waterproofing injection of DRYflex resin in the programmed cracks, in the construction joints and in the crossings, including the pipe supports, which were left in place.
The intervention, designed and coordinated by Drytech Engineering, restored the system to safety and made it definitively accessible for maintenance.
Waterproofing: Drytech Italia, Como
Ex-post Drytech Tank: 4’000 m²