Utility Facility

A Utility Facility is the support facilities that is any privately, publicly, or cooperatively owned lines, facilities, or systems for producing, transmitting, or distributing communication, electricity, light, heat, gas, oil, crude products, water, steam, waste, storm water, including any fire or police signal system or street lighting system, which directly or indirectly serves the public.

In refinery and petrochemical plant, the Utility Facilities are: Air Systems (Air Separation Unit (ASU), Nitrogen, Instrument and Plant Air); Water System (Cooling Water, BFW, Plant Service Water, Potable Water, Demineralized Water and Condensate); Fuel Systems; Power Generation; Steam Generation, etc. (Refer to the Offsite Facility, U&O (Utility and Offsite))

Related Definitions in the Project: The Project; Engineering; Plant and Process Unit

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