Power station rescued from shutdown

摘要

Slough Heat and Power Ltd needed to install a new compressor and only had a short amount of time in which to do so. The company found that problems began to arise when the design drawings failed to show that a cold-water valve extension handle clashed with the air inlet pipe of the compressor. Critically, this was the only isolating valve from the cooling water main header and could not be moved without closing the cooling water system. This would have also meant shutting down the whole power station, which was not an option. Potential solutions included re-routing the inlet pipework of the compressor and contracting in a specialist pipe freezing company to enable the valve to be moved. All initial potential solutions would have taken time to organise, which could have affected the prompt completion of the project.