Storia e tecnica: Grandiosi progetti italiani

Il canale del petrolio

The Sumed pipeline (also known as Suez-Mediterranean pipeline) is an oil pipeline in Egypt, running from the Ain Sukhna terminal on the Gulf of Suez to offshore Sidi Kerir, Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea. It provides an alternative to the Suez Canal for transporting oil from the Persian Gulf region to the Mediterranean.

Il grandioso progetto SUMED (Egitto 1979)

Regia:

Fabio Pellarin

Anno:
1979

Contenuto:


Un consorzio composto da quattro Società italiane, Saipem e Snamprogetti del Gruppo Eni, Montubi e Cimi della Finsider, ha realizzato in Egitto un sistema di oleodotti per il trasporto del greggio da Suez nel Mar Rosso, ad Alessandria, nel Mediterraneo. Il film illustra le varie fasi della realizzazione dell’importante opera.

Genere 

documentario

Edizione:
italiano

 

 

 

The Sumed pipeline is 320 kilometres (200 mi) long. It consists of two parallel lines of 42 inches (1,070 mm) diameter. Its capacity is 2.5 million barrels per day (400×103 m3/d).

In 2009 it carried 1.1 million barrels per day (170×103 m3/d).

TODAY:

Arab Petroleum Pipeline Co. ( SUMED) has established a fully equipped product hub at their Ain Sukhna complex on the Red Sea Coast in Egypt. The hub includes both onshore and offshore facilities. The onshore facility comprises 61 product storage tanks with a total capacity of 2,125 million m³, and two 50 km long unidirectional pipelines to the city of Suez. The diameter of the individual product storage tanks varies from 21 to 59 m.

marine hose
Single point moron with marine hoses

The offshore facility comprises a jetty and berths (500-160,000 DWT) including a topside pipeline and other auxiliaries. The hub includes an offshore single point mooring for very large crude carriers (VLCC), connected via a sea pipeline and marine hoses. The offshore facility is intended to accommodate future expansions to handle up to 24 million tonnes per annum of various products.

 

Presented by Romano Pisciotti

“Pasta in the evening fights insomnia, stress and does not make you fat”

Eating pasta in the evening improves night’s sleep and does not make you fat. This was revealed by a study published in the scientific journal The Lancet Public Health, as explained during a meeting in Naples.

Eating pasta for dinner is good, relaxes, facilitates sleep and does not make you fat, rather it makes you lose weight. The study shows that pasta can be consumed in the last hours of the day, especially if we are stressed and suffer from insomnia, thanks to the presence of Tryptophan and B vitamins in this food.

Mangiare pasta di sera migliora il riposo notturno e non fa ingrassare. Lo rivela uno studio pubblicato sulla rivista scientifica The Lancet Public Health, come spiegato nel corso di un incontro a Napoli.

Mangiare pasta a cena fa bene, rilassa, facilita il sonno e non fa ingrassare, anzi fa dimagrire. Lo studio dimostra che la pastasciutta può essere consumata nelle ultime ore del giorno, soprattutto se siamo stressati e soffriamo d’insonnia, grazie alla presenza in questo alimento di Triptofano e Vitamine del gruppo B.

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Seneca: l’uso del tempo

Brani scelti: SENECA, Lettere a Lucilio, I secolo d.C.

Fa’ così, caro Lucilio: renditi veramente padrone di te e custodisci con ogni cura quel tempo che finora ti era portato via, o ti sfuggiva. Persuaditi che le cose stanno come io ti scrivo: alcune ore ci vengono sottratte da vane occupazioni, altre ci scappano quasi di mano; ma la perdita per noi più vergognosa è quella che avviene per nostra negligenza. Se badi bene, una gran parte della vita ci sfugge nel fare il male, la maggior parte nel non fare nulla, tutta quanta nel fare altro da quello che dovremmo. Puoi indicarmi qualcuno che dia un giusto valore al suo tempo e alla sua giornata, e che si renda conto com’egli muoia giorno per giorno?

In questo c’inganniamo, nel vedere la morte avanti a noi, come un avvenimento futuro, mentre gran parte di essa è già alle nostre spalle. Ogni ora del”nostro passato appartiene al dominio della morte. Dunque, caro Lucilio, fa’ ciò che mi scrivi; fa’ tesoro di tutto il tempo che hai. Sarai meno schiavo del domani, se ti sarai reso padrone dell’oggi. Mentre rinviamo i nostri impegni, la vita passa. Tutto, o Lucilio, dipende dagli altri; solo il tempo è nostro. Abbiamo avuto dalla natura il possesso di questo solo bene sommamente fuggevole, ma ce lo lasciamo togliere dal primo venuto.

E l’uomo è tanto stolto che, quando acquista beni di nessun valore, e in ogni caso compensabili, accetta che gli vengano messi in conto; ma nessuno, che abbia cagionato perdita di tempo agli altri, pensa di essere debitore di qualcosa, mentre è. questo l’unico bene che l’uomo non può restituire, neppure con tutta la sua buona volontà. Mi domanderai forse come mi comporti io che ti dò questi consigli. Te lo dirò francamente: il mio caso è quello di un uomo che spende con liberalità, ma tiene in ordine la sua amministrazione; anch’io tengo i conti esatti della spesa. Non posso dire che nulla vada perduto, ma sono in grado di dire quanto tempo perdo, perché e come lo perdo; posso cioè spiegare i motivi della mia povertà.

Capita anche a me, come alla maggior parte della gente caduta in miseria senza sua colpa: tutti sono disposti a scusare, ma nessuno viene in aiuto. E che dunque? Per me non è povero del tutto colui che, per quanto poco gli resti, se lo fa bastare. Ma tu, fin d’ora, serba gelosamente tutto quello che possiedi; e avrai cominciato a buon punto, poiché – ci ammoniscono i nostri vecchi – «è troppo tardi per risparmiare il vino, quando si è giunti alla feccia». Nel fondo del vaso resta non solo la parte più scarsa, ma anche la peggiore. Addio.

 

scelto da Romano Pisciotti

Hydrogen Strategy

London (February 6, 2020) — IVECO and FPT Industrial, the commercial vehicle and powertrain brands of CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI/ MI: CNHI), and Nikola Motor Company will manufacture, through their European Joint Venture, the Nikola TRE in Ulm, Germany, at the IVECO manufacturing facility.

This strategic and exclusive Heavy-Duty Truck partnership saw CNH Industrial taking a $250 million stake in Nikola as the lead Series D investor. The partnership announcement at the CNH Industrial Capital Markets Day in September 2019, was quickly followed in December with the unveiling of the Nikola TRE, a battery electric vehicle (BEV) heavy duty truck, which is the first step towards the fuel-cell electric (FCEV) model.

Today, the site in Ulm is IVECO’s chassis engineering hub, ideally situated at the heart of the Baden-Württemberg region, which is striving to become a leading hub for fuel-cell mobility thanks also to its skilled workforce and research labs. The region has committed a substantial investment to fund research and development projects in the area which has a strong automotive industry, with strategic project partnerships, meaning the Ulm facility will benefit from close proximity to key suppliers.

Furthermore, the German Federal Government recently released its draft National Hydrogen Strategy, which has the aim of expanding the pioneering role of Companies in hydrogen technologies. In this strategy, it commits a total of two billion euro to fund the hydrogen innovation programme, incl. the development of the necessary distribution infrastructure.

“Our European joint-venture with NIKOLA and today’s announcement, is real proof that zero-emission long-haul transport is becoming a reality, resulting in tangible environmental benefits for Europe’s long distance hauliers and its citizens,” said Hubertus Mühlhäuser, Chief Executive Officer, CNH Industrial. “The decision to build the Nikola TRE in Ulm – a center of heavy-duty truck engineering excellence – underscores the site’s strategic location at the heart of Germany’s fuel cell technology cluster.”

In the first stage of the project, €40 million will be invested by the joint-venture Company to upgrade the manufacturing facility, which will focus on final assembly of the vehicle. Start of production is anticipated within the first quarter of 2021, with deliveries of the Nikola TRE beginning in the same year.

“The Nikola TRE is proving to be the most advanced articulated truck in the world and will continue to set the standard for zero-emission vehicles today and in the future,” said Trevor Milton, Chief Executive Officer, Nikola Motor Company. “The decision to volume produce the TRE in the city of Ulm is a fitting example of how to create jobs, foster innovation, provide certainty to new zero-emission part suppliers and serve as an example to other OEM’s. The world is ready for zero-emission freight transportation, and the joint venture between Nikola and IVECO will be the first to deliver. I look forward to seeing the first production vehicles come off the line.”

The first models to enter production will be the battery-electric 4×2 and 6×2 articulated trucks with modular and scalable batteries with a capacity of up to 720 kWh and an electric powertrain that delivers up to 480 kW of continuous power output.

The Ulm facility will receive module supplies from IVECO´s manufacturing locations in Valladolid and Madrid, Spain, which will enable a rapid ramp up to meet expected customer demand. Fuel-cell electric versions, built on the same platform, will be tested under the EU-funded H2Haul project during 2021 for an expected market launch in 2023.

The Nikola TRE currently in development is based on the new IVECO S-WAY platform and integrates Nikola’s truck technology, controls and infotainment. Testing is expected to begin in mid-2020 with prototypes showcased at the IAA 2020 commercial vehicle exhibition in Hannover, Germany this September.

“By drawing on our Gold standard World Class Manufacturing sites in Madrid and Valladolid, Spain, where the IVECO S-Way is produced, we are able to accelerate final assembly, powertrain integration and high-end customization of the Nikola TRE for a timely market introduction in 2021” said Gerrit Marx, President Commercial and Speciality Vehicles, CNH Industrial.

This Joint Venture forms part of a wider partnership established with Nikola to accelerate industry transformation towards emission neutrality of Class 8 heavy-duty trucks in North America and Europe through the adoption of fuel-cell technology. The primary focus of the collaboration is to leverage each partners’ respective expertise to successfully deploy zero-emission heavy-duty trucks and to disrupt the industry with an entirely new business model.

INFO/Presented by Motor Parts Industry (IVECO – Lagos, Nigeria)

Romano Pisciotti