Case Study: Ironbridge PowerStation
Summary: Magnom™ units clean general service water to the main heat exchangers, preventing regular fan failures.
Customer: Ironbridge Power Station
UK
Application(s): Water [Heating & Cooling]
Industry(s): Water Power Generation
Notes
Magnom™ has a long and established pedigree within diverse types of Power Stations as a key protection device for industrial transmissions. Typically such installations have been within the lubrication circuits with quite dramatic results in the removal of all catastrophic wear elements (including non-ferrous).
Recognising the extremely diverse potential for Magnom™, Ironbridge, the 970MW coal fired power station first commissioned in 1970, has utilised the technology to clean the General Service Water (GSW) supply offering vital protection to the heat exchangers providing essential cooling to the feed/exhaust fan motors critical to the effective coal combustion process.
The beneficial effects were twofold;
- Firstly the extent of debris removal (both ferrous and non) significantly reduced the maintenance intervals and associated downtime. (Typically the heat exchangers needed cleaning by rodding out the tubes manually – a very labour intensive and time consuming process!).
- Secondly the enhanced cooling performance added critical protection to the fan motors which had previously been failing on a regular basis.
Magnom™ has and continues to offer key benefits to the power cycle industries with a variety of applications as follows:
- Coal Pulverising Mill Transmission protection
- General Service Water Clean up
- Waste Slurry Pump Protection
- Compressor Protection
- Transformer Oil Clean up
- Main Turbine Lube Circuit
- Epicyclic Gear Box Protection