The Great ManmadeRiver Project

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1953 : Drilling to find petroleum resources

water resources

Important problem of supplying water in Lybia

Solution that seems to afford more water than anyother (pipelines from South Europe to Tripoli, desalination, transportation by ships)

A little history

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Issue

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Aim of the project

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October 1983: an extraordinary Congress session decided to fund and execute the Great Man-Made River Project.

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Beginning of the project

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Distribution network

700 km

1732 km

1926 km

7,5-meter-length pipes

Two pipe manufacturing plants Sarir plant : 3 lines 120 pipes/day

Prega plant : 2 lines 80 pipes/day

Pipe production and logistics

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Haul roads for transportation

Phase I : 1,600 km

Phase II : 2,155 km

Large pipe, many kilometers

Technical Aspects

MORTAR COATING STEEL PRE-STRESSING WIRE

OUTER CONCRETE CORE

STEEL LINER

INNER CONCRETE

CORE

PIPE MAKE-UP

Length of Pipe = 7.52 meters

Pipe Diameters 1.6-4.0

meters

Weight of Pipe = 75-83 tonnes

Pressure Rates 6-26 bar

17-18 km of prestressed Wire

12-16 tonnes of Cement

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Technical Aspects

Almost 600,000 pipes

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Some figures

30 billion project

Enough cement to construct a road Tripoli Bangcok

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Some figures

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Thank for your attention

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