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Equipment Based Grouting

Dangote Refinery 2021

Equipment Based Grouting

Project Overview

Large-scale precision grouting for critical refinery equipment foundations at the Dangote Refinery. Works included non-shrink grout installation for compressors, vessels, and structural column bases under tight tolerances.

Scope of Work

Non-shrink grout supply and placement
Equipment base grouting
Anchor bolt pocket grouting
Dimensional and strength verification

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Site Gallery

Photographs from the Equipment Based Grouting works on site.

Grouting works around a compressor skid foundation at the refinery

Crew placing non-shrink grout under a machine base plate

Operatives mixing MasterFlow non-shrink grout on site

Grout mixing and placement team at the equipment plinth

Formwork and placed grout at the skid edge

Compressor skid supported on levelling nuts before grouting

Anchor bolt and base plate detail with formwork in place

Completed grout bed beneath the Solar Turbines compressor skid

Finished grouting along the length of the equipment base

Grouting of a gearbox base plate within the plant structure

Operative fixing formwork around a gearbox base before grouting

Timber formwork built around the drive gearbox base plate

Prepared gearbox base plate ready for non-shrink grout

Sealing the formwork edges at the gearbox foundation

Completed formwork box around the machine base awaiting pour

Drive unit and plinth within the mill structure before grouting

Wide view of the equipment foundation and access works

Machine base on levelling packs above the concrete plinth

Base plate on steel shim packs prior to grout placement

Close view of anchor bolts and shim packs under the base plate

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