The Tarpon Monopod is a minimal platform cable guyed caisson used to develop marginal fields. An in depth structural sensitivity study is performed on the Tarpon platform in 76 m water depth situated in Malaysian waters. An operating Tarpon platform offshore Peninsular Malaysia is modelled in the finite element structural analysis software, SACS v5.3 to reflect the as built condition and simulated to a combination of four different storm design criterion with two dominant approach directions to capture the monsoon seasons in the region. The guying system will be varied by simulating trivial loss of wire ropes from being intact, fully guyed to its damaged, freestanding mode. The results suggest that the Tarpon Monopod has relatively low structural redundancy and its integrity highly depends on its guying system condition. Structural weaknesses are identified alongside proposed key best practices and potential improvements to the platform.
Department of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS ,Bandar Seri Iskandar, 31750 Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia
This paper reviews on application of quasi continuous vortex lattice method for determining the performance of helicopter tail rotor propeller. Tail rotor blade for Bell B206 of one seat helicopter is used. The method is developed to be suitable for analyzing the performance of propeller in term of thrust, torque, and efficiency. These parameters are calculated based on pressure on blade.
Department of Aeronautics, Automotive and Ocean Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Ocean and Aerospace Engineering Research Institute, Indonesia
Palm stearin is one of the fractionation process results from palm oil that is the largest commodities in the world. It has potentially as an alternative of binder in metal injection molding based on researches that conducted in Malaysia. Palm stearin can be combined with other binder to be a binder system with the function as lubricant and surfactant in a binder system. Based on experiments showed Palm stearin has fulfilled requirement as binder in MIM such as pseudoplastic behavior from rheological test and homogeneity of the feedstock. Palm stearin can replace conventional binders that commonly used in industry.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sriwijaya University, Inderalaya 30662, Indonesia
Department of Mechanical and Material Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor 43600,Malaysia
Simulation of fluid mechanic of amine absorber process in removing acid gas from feed sour gas in LNG production plant is presented in this paper. The amine absorption in the Removing Acid Gas Process is designed to remove carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and other sulfur compounds from the sour feed gas. The sour gas together with the recycle gas from the Treater unit enters the bottom of Amine Absorber and flows upward and passes through a demister pad to water wash section. In the Amine Absorber, the down-flowing amine solution absorbs and from the up-flowing sour gas to produce a sweetened gas stream as a product and an amine solution rich in the absorbed acid.
Department of Aeronautics, Automotive and Ocean Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Ocean and Aerospace Engineering Research Institute, Indonesia
