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KEN 010177 Kaiser Builder News Front PITTSBURGH RAPID TRANSIT Kaiser Engineers has been selected by the Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, to provide serv ices for the third all new rapid transit system to.be built in the United States in the past half century. The system will link the City of Pittsburgh with South Hill communities. Kaiser Engineers will provide over all project management, as well as engineering, design, architectural, and construction management services for the Transit Expressway Revenue Line. A major segment of the Port Author ity's Early Action Program, the Tran sit Expressway will make use of a new system of rubber-tired vehicles on an exclusive right-of-way. Included in Kaiser Engineers' de sign team will be Richardson, Gordon and Associates (civil-stfuctural engi neers) of Pittsburgh, and local archi tects and other consultants. The program for the project has been pre pared to make maximum use of governmental and private enterprise resources in the Pittsburgh area. Kaiser Engineers' involvement in the design and construction of many tran sit projects provides the organization with a wide base of practical experi ence. Major rapid transit projects include preliminary engineering for the Southern California Rapid Tran sit District and for the Regional Plan ning Council in Baltimore, studies and final design for the Washington Metro politan Area Transit Authority, engi neering and construction for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, engineering for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation, studies of the Metropolitan Dade County Planning Department, and construction for the City of Montreal and its transit system. 2 ENVIRONMENTAL DEPARTMENT To meet current needs more effec tively, Kaiser Engineers has reorgan ized its air and water pollution control specialists to form a single Environ mental Control Department. The con solidation permits a team approach to major control problems that embrace not only the design of a complete abatement system, but also could in clude studies on short and long range effects on regional ecology and biol ogy, social impact, public health, demography, reclamation, economics, and a host of other considerations, all of which are parts of the total prob lem. One of the first complete envi ronmental control systems was designed by KE for the steel industry early in the 1940's for the West's only fully integrated steel operation. It marked a milestone not only in air pollution control but also in the re circulation and efficient use of water. Since then, Kaiser Engineers has pro vided air and water pollution control systems for industries ranging from nuclear and power plants to mines and mineral processing facilities. For public agencies, services have been provided for such projects as the un paralleled 50-year water quality con trol program for San Francisco Bay and the adjoining delta region. KAISER ENGINEERS Kaiser Engineers provides consulting, design, engineering and construction services to industries and governments throughout the world. Material may be reprinted from' Kaiser BUILDER without permission; it would be appreciated if credit is given to Kaiser Engineers. Editor Roger M. Denney Art Director Ben Akutagawa Designed and printed in the U.S.A. by Kaiser Graphic Arts 187 KEN 010178 # Armco Steel Plant Wins "Outstanding" ASCE Award The award for the "Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement of 1970" has been won by Armco Steel Corporation's new $360 million steel-producing and rolling complex at its Middletown (Ohio) Works. The American Society of Civil Engineers announced the winner early this month at its national meeting in Portland, Oregon. Kaiser Engineers and Armco's engi neering staff prepared the initial master plan and economic studies, and KE pro- 3 KEN 010179 'liutl dui: : ' /oi/ ipirK". lld/nd p,>;,' vjowjjiIq 'saimioBj Sujqsjuij dujs pUB 6UI|B0UUB PUB `I|IUJ PIOO `SSUII 6Uj| -iiojd dpjs `b6bjojs ijoo `}UB|d uopeoij -|JB|0 J3JBM `}UE|d JU9UUB9J} J9}BM`S|i!UJ djJis }oi) pus 6uiqqe|S `S);d Bu^bos `juB|d Bu!>|EUj|aa;s uaBAxo ojSBq a-q rsajtnpBj 6u!MO||oj0qisapn|OU! UM0)9|p -P!W }B msjBojd gqi 't>96t uj payejs UlEj6CUd UOjSUBd xa pus uopBziujapoui ,,009 loaloJd,, epiM-AuBdtuoo s.oouiiv uo >)jom si; jo jjed sb uM0}9|ppiyg }B saiisi.ioBj 6uiqs! -U|f PUB 6U!HBU1|09}S M9U JOfBUl am JOJ saojAjas uoponjjsuoo puE uBisap papw KEN 010180 The annual award is given by ASCE "to the engineering project that demon strates the greatest engineering skills and represents the greatest contribu tion to civil engineering progress and mankind." In making the selection from among entries of large engineering projects, the judges, who are editors of leading engineering magazines, gave special consideration to these criteria: service to the well-being of people and communities, uniqueness, pioneering aspects in design and construction, outstanding values--both aesthetic and utilitarian. Two additional important modern considerations have been met in the new facilities at Middletown: to plan, design and build so that the plant will supply an essential product of greater quality in larger quantity, and to do it with heightened concern for the con servation of materials and protection of the environment. In working out the details of expand ing and improving production at Mid dletown, Kaiser Engineers and Armco's staff paid maximum attention to envi ronmental control -- in air pollution abatement techniques pioneered in the United States, in the largest private water clarification and treatment plant, in deep well disposal of pickling wastes, and other facilities. One notable example of the quality and success of engineering at Middletown was the smooth startup of the 86in. continuous hot strip mill, the largest Water system flows and balances are controlled through graphic central instrumentation panel. Water clarification and treatment plant can treat as much water as pumping facilities of Cincinnati, Ohio (pop. 500,000). The $16 million system can clean, cool and treat up to 100,000 gallons per minute to serve adjacent steel-rolling complex. S KEN 010181 single element in Project 600. Only a few hours after the mill first began op eration on April 2, 1968, it produced salable coils--an uncommon event for such mills in the steel industry. Before winning ASCE's award, the Middletown Works already had re ceived statewide distinction by being named one of "Seven Engineering Wonders of Ohio" by the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers, and national recognition from the National Society of Professional Engineers as "one of the outstanding engineering achieve ments of 1969" for the $39 million air and water pollution control program. Some of the previous recipients of the ASCE award since its inception in 1960 were the Oroville Dam and Ed ward Hyatt Powerplant on California's Feather River, 1969; the San MateoHayward Bridge in California, 1968; the St. Louis Gateway Arch, 1967; and the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, 1961. The Armco-Middletown Works re ceives the first "outstanding civil engi neering achievement award" presented to a privately owned facility, and also the first such award to an industrial plant. One of two 200-ton-capacity L-D basic t xygen furnaces is charged with molten r:j iron. Overall plant (below) is served ~y three air pollution control systems t:':d a water clarification system. 6 KEN 010182 The operating conditions for many of today's manufacturing and processing industries are tough on equipment and construction materials. Considering the rapid pace of technological develop ment, tomorrow's designs for wear and tear and maintenance will be even harder to meet. Fortunately, the number of improved equipment components and materials of construction are becoming ever greater to meet present and future re quirements. But for the engineer who must tailor his specifications to fit ap plications, the proliferation of compo nents and materials can raise serious difficulties of choice. The crux of the engineer's problem is to achieve optimum performance and reliability while staying within the most practical cost balance. In resolving this function-cost relationship, he must know when an "off-the-shelf" item will serve the purpose or whether a spe cially engineered item is necessary. Under the modern approach of sys tems engineering, even the selection of off-the-shelf items can be complex. With the engineered item, there is the question of determining how exotic it must be and whether it can be fabri cated and constructed. There is the further necessity of conforming to building codes and standards and fin ally taking account of the ultimate sat isfaction of the client. The range of selectivity is evident, for example, in the different kinds of piping that are specified in just three project categories: water treatment, alumina process, and nuclear plants. For water treatment and distribution, cast iron has been favored historically, but it is giving way in many places to reinforced concrete and nonmetallics, such as asbestos cement, plastic and even fiberglass. For the digestion area of an alumina plant, where the alkaline fluids are not only extremely corrosive, hot, but may also contain highly abrasive aluminum oxide and various impurities, nickel has proven to be an optimum material. One might therefore suppose that if a little is good, a lot will be even better. How ever, the quite prohibitive cost of a solid nickel piping system has led to the practical expedient of using steel pipe and the related components such as fittings, valves and pumps clad with pure nickel. This cladding is applied by various means -- electroplating, weld deposit overlay, diffusion or explosive cladding. Even with nickel cladding, or almost any other for that matter, the engineer. KEN 010183 pipe manufacturer and constructor have a further mutual concern. If the cladding leaves any part of the pipe ex posed. even as small as that from a hairline crack, the corrosive media can erode the pipe in a matter of days. Such cracks can occur during manufacture or when pipe sections are welded to gether. In order to minimize such pos sibilities, the materials engineer must select and establish effective non destructive testing methods. In selecting materials of construction for nuclear plants, yet another concern arises. Here, the formidable problem of radiation is added to those of corro sion, high temperature, and pressures in designing a system that will achieve optimum function and safety within an acceptable cost balance. Because of the radiation factor and the subsequent embrittlement of most conventional metals under neutron irradiation, and the overriding requirement for ex tremely high integrity, engineers must specify high purity alloys and materials Comment uprte fetoverj of a new flU-purpo^c consfm&tion oieTai (o , 'ONE SMALl^ IGLUMPX EO& ^MANKIND- Fundamental Researcher I'Tvetound it! It's a silvery, rare metal brought from the moon." General Researcher: "It has fantastic properties plus unlimited corro sion resistance in every existing process system." Fabricator: "It's terrific! However, we'll have to develop new equipment to roll-form, bend, or weld it." Project Engineer: "What! At S25.000 per ounce, and you want to use it throughout the process system?" MORAL: The judicious use of available materials plus cautious consideration of new materials and their cost is a stronger building block than silvery moonbeams. B KEN 010184 for nuclear plants. In the continuing search for the right equipment and materials of construc tion for wide ranges of projects, Kaiser Engineers for many years had metallur gical engineers specifically involved in solving the problems of mechanical or physical metallurgy. These materials engineers investigate metallurgical and fabrication problems, provide welding surveillance, analyze failures, regularly sample and test ma terials to assure that they meet speci fied standards, and develop quality criteria to fit specific needs. In addition, of course, information is sought from research and development companies, laboratories, and product and equip ment vendors on the prospective use of many different materials. No matter how much information may be contributed through these sources, however, the materials engineer knows that he and his colleagues in design and construction are responsible for the integrity and function of the facility. KEN 010185 Professional Profile TOM STEPHENS Melting point, hardness, tensile strength, corrosion resistance, shear strength, compressive strength, coeffi cient of expansion -- these are all parts of a fascinating metallurgical world for Tom Stephens, who has spent his 23year engineering career studying, in vestigating and advising colleagues and clients on materials selection, welding practices, and corrosion problems. Tom's metallurgical world has an en vironment certainly as difficult to cope with as man's earth environment, which is receiving so much belated attention from public and industry alike. To bend the word a bit, it might be said that his engineering field is the ecology of ma terials of construction. With his many years of experience developing criteria for material selec tion and fabrication techniques, he now serves as a special troubleshooter and consultant on these matters for a wide range of nuclear, industrial, mineral processing, and desalination projects. Tom's first technical working expe rience was in the metallurgical labora tory of an aluminum fabricator. His duties, along with further technical training, led to responsibilities in foundry and extrusion plant metallurgy. Not wishing to be confined to metal- 10 KEN 010186 lurgical problems only in one industry, he joined another organization and un dertook metallographic investigations and controlled laboratory tests on the properties of many metals. He con tinued to acquire more experience and knowledge in other firms as metallurgi cal consultant and inspector, process engineer and metallurgist, and research metallurgist. One interesting facet was development of remote handling and examination techniques for testing and metallographic examination of radioactively "hot" materials. Tom joined Kaiser Engineers in 1954 as a senior engineer and was assigned to the company's nuclear projects group. Many of the early years with the company were spent in what was a new field -- developing criteria for nuclear research and power facilities. He su pervised the design selection and spe cification of materials used in both the reactor and conventional portions of the Engineering Test Reactor (1957), Experimental Gas-Cooled Reactor, Ex perimental Beryllium Oxide Reactor, Nuclear Rocket Engine-Stage Test Stand (E/STS 2-3) complex, and for the current Loss of Fluid Test facility. These projects all involved the application of materials under extreme environmental operating conditions -- high tempera tures, high pressures, and corrosive environment; and, on the opposite end of the temperature scale, materials for super-cold cryogenic systems. In his 16 years with Kaiser Engineers, his activities also have run the gamut of the less exotic but nonetheless diffi cult investigation, selection and inspec tion of materials for many of the company's industrial projects, especi ally in the aluminum industry. Currently, a portion of his time is spent develop ing and defining material and inspec tion requirements for corrosion and corrosion-erosion resistant compo nents for the Gladstone, Australia, and Jamaica plant expansions, and the new alumina plant under way at Portoscuso, Sardinia. There are three general categories of equipment or components that oc cupy most of Tom's metallurgical or welding attention: pressure vessels ranging from very small units up to those weighing over 200 tons, valves and pump fittings, and structural mate rials such as those used for conveyor systems and buildings where welding, fabrication and procurement problems may occur. "New processing technology in re cent years," said Tom, "has been push ing construction materials close to the limits of their allowable stresses. Be cause of this, we have had to select equipment and plant components with improved functional capabilities. We must have a high degree of certainty that everything will perform reliably under conditions in the process flow." Tom is a registered metallurgical en gineer in the State of California and is a long-time member of the American Welding Society and American Society of Metals. When he is not concerning himself with the metallurgical problems of work at his office, a fabricator's plant, or a project site, Tom may be found on a golf course considering the possibility of making a 250-yard drive by studying the angle and impact of his wood on the rated compression of a golf ball. ii alumina plants Dedicated in Jamaica `3 The world's newest alumina plant was dedicated last month by Alumina Partners of Jamaica (Alpart) at Naki in St Elizabeth Pariah, Jamaica. Kaiser Engineers designed and provided construction management for the plant, which presently has an annual production capacity of 950,000 short tons. Alpart is a partnership, of the subsidiaries of three leading metal producers--The Anaconda Company, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation, and Reynolds Metals Company. Following the dedication, Jamaica's Prime Minister the RL Hon. Hugh Shearer - announced that an agreement had been reached for expanding the plant to\ 1,300,000 tons of alumina per year.. . v; in his dedication speech, the Prime Minister took note of the task of designing and building the plant; "Let me conclude by congratulating the engineers on the splendid work they have done In putting up what I understand to be one of the most technically advanced alumina plants in the world--virtually on schedule. In . this respect our Jamaican workers displayed a high degree of competence and acquitted themselves well. I congratulate them aU." 3 | j ., ^ i * : J j '< >: ? | ,, ' ' 5 KEN 010188  T*?~.*.*-J-^*c**r.g Expanded in Australia . _; Australian production of alumina continue* to increase at a remarkable rate;' * ^ evan for that nation's vigorous economy. Early thisyear, Queensland Alumina V;.,'v - -1 Limited announced that output from Its Gladstone plant had exceeded one million . long tons during 1969, an Australian record for an alumina refinery. Kaiser Engineers provided engineering and construction management for tha^~?^ original.Gladstone plant of 600,000 long tons per year capacity, . i expansion to 90Q,000 ton in 1968;ls currertly nvinfl;ahead .wtth;ooftifeuctk'%^ ' 3 for a second bxpansionfo 1,275,000 tons, and altnosametlmetepreparfOB deU%|^.f design (or a third expansion to 2 million tons. The size canbe apprebBfed If considers dial even the second.expanslon will make Ihee'G^iladd^sotonriee^ppllaan^tlhtilalM^^ t''^-f'^^'-^ largaatalumlna refinery In the world. . 5-V iU'XfZ* -V^ JSl M-*s$ X-WiS w - -* ` \;"-V * . . *. `.'Wk . * 13 KEN 010189 FbrTheRecord :;i^s5c ^1 1 U.S. Census This is the month, the year and the decade that every inhabitant of the United States gets into the news-at least statistically. By now the heads of households all across the land have been questioned, counted and otherwise recorded (along with every other person in the dwelling) in the nation's oldest and biggest people research project -- the U.S. Census. The 1970 Census of Population and Hous ing is the 19th decennial count of how many people there are in the U.S. since the first census was taken in 1790. While some indi viduals may grumble about some of the ques tions, the census provides information of incalculable benefit to the whole nation. Apart from the basic head count, data col lected in the census tells the nation much about how and where people live, the stand ard of living, and answers many questions concerning major social, economic and po litical problems. The census helps in the planning for a better future for all of the citi zens of the United States of America. i I i KEN 010190 KAISER ENGINEERS L. H. OPPENHEIM Executive Vice President General Manager J. E. HUGHES Vice President Asst. 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