Robinson, Illinois is a city on the eastern part of the state that is near the Indiana border which is divided by the Wabash River. It is the county seat of Crawford County with a population of 7,150.

Illinois Route 33 runs through the center of this city, connecting it to the region. St. Louis is about 150 miles to the west along State Route 33 and Interstate 70. While Indianapolis is about 120 miles to the northeast.

This city is home to various recreational attractions like Robinson City Park, Robinson Municipal Swimming Pool, Washington Park, Quail Creek Country Club & Resort, and Eagle Theater.

Some of the major employers in this area includes an oil refinery owned by the Marathon Petroleum Company (MPC) and a chocolate factory for the Heath bar. There are approximately 650 employees who work at the oil plant.

The Robinson Marathon refinery in Crawford County, Illinois has a crude oil refining capacity of 253,000 barrels per calendar day. The refinery was built in 1906 and purchased by MPC in 1924. The refinery processes sweet and sour crude oils into gasoline, distillates, natural gas liquids and petrochemicals, propane, and heavy fuel oil. The products are supplied through pipelines, trucks, and trains.

The Marathon Petroleum Refinery in Robinson, IL needed a new industrial process water pump system to handle its medium flows of highly acidic water combined with standard wastewater.

PEDCO, the site engineer, contacted Romtec Utilities to assist on the design of this industrial process and wastewater pump station with stringent design requirements. In addition to combining acidic process water with standard wastewater, the pump system needed to be completed with a cost-effective design. PEDCO is a leading engineering design firm that is now based under IMEG.

PEDCO used Romtec Utilities designs to put the project out to bid and Romtec Utilities quoted the bidders with Freitag-Weinhardt, Inc. winning the installation. Romtec Utilities was able to help Freitag-Weinhardt win the bid for this complicated specification through our expertise and their understanding.

Freitag-Weinhardt, Inc. is a mechanical contractor that is nationally recognized based in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Skanska, the project procurement, and control company understood the value of the Romtec Utilities package and approved the pump system aspect of the project.

A precast concrete sump included an interior Tnemec coating to withstand the water chemistry from a refinery testing lab.

11 hp Goulds grinder pumps were designed in a duplex configuration and included a factory epoxy coating to withstand the water chemistry. The pump system piping was designed with stainless steel components, and corrosion resistant floats were included as the liquid level sensing devices.

The industrial process water pump station features 5′ diameter wet well, 3″ SS discharge piping, and two Goulds grinder pumps.

We were proud to provide the design, manufacture, and supply of this oil refinery process water pump station that met high standards for acidic water. We design pump stations for various industrial refineries and manufacturing plants all over the country with our team of design experts specializing in pump station systems.