In this blog, we talk about the Myanmar project. The EPC contractor here was Hyundai Heavy Industries. They invited global bids for the incinerator package to be installed on shore near an oil drilling platform in Myanmar.

The package was a very high end one, with redundant motors, instruments and panels and anything else one can think of.  Even some of the common items like cable trays were required to be of stainless steel MOC, obviously because of the system’s proximity to the sea. The incinerator’s primary and secondary chambers with other ancillary equipment along with piping, instrumentation and cabling was to be skid-mounted. The whole arrangement was provided with a canopy.

The waste here was both hazardous and general garbage.

It was quite challenging to meet the specs, but the system was eventually made ready after approval of the design documents.

The next challenge was to convince the three independent international inspection agencies during the Factory Acceptance Test. The inspection was done in their presence when run test, hydraulic pressure test, NDT for welds, compressive test for refractory, paint thickness and adherence test, instrument and control panel loop test, PLC simulation test, etc. were carried out to their satisfaction.

On the concluding occasion of the inspection, our production team leader asked the overseas inspectors what they thought of the system made by us.  All were unanimous in complimenting Haat on the high quality of fabrication and compliance to client specifications.

This was not only a feather in the cap of our Production, Design and Project teams, but it also motivated them tremendously, as it proved that Haat is second to none in producing quality equipment.

We shipped the equipment after despatch clearance was given and sent our team to Myanmar for installation. This was at a time when there was internal strife in the country threatening the safety of our staff. Yet our people went about completing the job and came back, as they had done in many other places in the world with similar or worse conditions.